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filming locations ranging from the Svínafellsjökull glacier, which features prominently in scenes beyond the Wall, to Thingvellir National Park, where Brienne and the Hound do battle.If you’re craving sunshine, Club Med’s “Spring into Summer Sale” is slashing rates to nearly half-price on May departures to its revamped and enlarged Cancun Yucatan resort.
No one sets out to build something that looks dated. And when one’s building is meant to attract retail tenants, who, in turn, need to attract shoppers, being “retro” isn’t desirable; retro might appeal to a small number of authenticity-seeking hipsters or urban archaeologists, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
That’s why Dufferin Galleria, a one-storey, 215,000-square-foot, trapped-in-amber mall on the northwestern edge of Toronto’s downtown core, is such a curiosity. So curious, in fact, artist and writer Shari Kasman self-published an entire book,, after learning the city had approved a massive redevelopment of the site in the summer of 2018.
In her introduction, Ms. Kasman nails the reason Galleria owners never renovated away its dark-brown, green and gold charms: In its almost 50-year lifespan, the quirky, barrel-vaulted mall proved so useful to the ethnic neighbourhoods it served – Wallace-Emerson, Junction Triangle, Corso Italia, Bloorcourt Village – that there was little need for flashiness. Globe subscribers, read Dave LeBlanc’s
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