Daily Headlines: News from the Internet for December 21, 2016
TTC to use undercover officers to catch fare cheats; Kensington Market group aims to keep area affordable; 401 Richmond is already its highest and best use; and more news:Eglinton Avenue is Toronto's...
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Explainer: How Tiebacks, Rakers, Struts Support Shoring Walls
This week's 'Explainer' is the third in the topic of shoring, featuring guest contributor and geotechnical engineer, Michael Diez de Aux. In case you missed it, the first 'Explainer' in the series...
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East Bayfront: Podium Levels Rising at Moshe Safdie's Monde
Construction of Great Gulf Homes’ Monde Condominiums project in Toronto’s emerging East Bayfront neighbourhood has greatly progressed since UrbanToronto last reported on it back in October. Located at...
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Upper Beaches: 9-Storey Condo Proposed on Kingston Road
Though not officially designated as an 'Avenue' under the Official Plan, Toronto's Kingston Road is gradually taking on the characteristics of a mid-rise urban corridor. Across the Upper Beaches...
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ZIGG Condos' Mid-Rise Massing Taking Shape on St. Clair West
After almost one year of construction, Madison Homes and Fieldgate Urban's ZIGG Condos is making an impact on St. Clair Avenue West, a short distance west of Avenue Road in Midtown Toronto. We first...
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Cladding Installation Practically Complete at Fuse2 Condos
It's been a busy few weeks at the Dupont and Lansdowne site of Neudorfer Corporation's Fuse and Fuse2 Condos in Toronto's West End. December marked the first occupancies for the Barrett...
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Proposed Distillery District Tower Falls Flat at Design Review
An ambitious proposal for a 49-storey tower at 31 Parliament Street located at the southern edge of the Distillery District was presented to the City of Toronto's Design Review Panel last week, where...
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Photo of the Day: DUKE Condos
Today's Photo of the Day takes us to Dundas Street West for a view of a new mid-rise condominium development. Submitted to the project's Forum thread by contributor Mafaldaboy, this photo shows...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for December 22, 2016
Bombardier meets latest deadline for streetcar order, but is far behind original schedule; Progress on Burlington GO station going nowhere; Toronto City Council’s 10 Worst Motions in 2016; and more...
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Throwback Thursday: Removing an Eyesore on St. Clair
For our last Throwback Thursday on 2016, we are taking a look at the St. Clair Avenue West site of BLVD Developments and Lifetime Developments' The Code Condos. Back in August 2012, the site at...
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Mid-Rise Density Tabled for Dufferin and Lawrence
Just south of Lawrence Avenue, a new development proposal has been submitted to the City of Toronto to allow an 8-storey, 105-unit project at 3019 Dufferin Street. Located on a 2,000 m² site on the...
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Construction of The Kip District's First Phase Reaches Grade
Construction is in full swing for the first phase of The Kip District, Concert Properties' new master-planned community near Kipling subway and GO station in Etobicoke. The project got its start early...
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Kentucky Fried Chic: Condo to Replace KFC in Scarborough
East of Toronto's Victoria Park Avenue, the southeast corner of Danforth and Byng is subject to a site plan application for a mid-rise condominium building. Long occupied by a KFC outlet, the...
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Are Property Taxes Dooming Toronto's Heritage Buildings?
It has recently come to light in local media outlets that the existence of Toronto's beloved 401 Richmond—an artists' enclave in the heart of the Entertainment District—is threatened by a massive...
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Shayne Dark's Nova Celebrated at Tableau
A pair of major new public artworks were recently celebrated at a pair of recently opened new Toronto buildings. Today and tomorrow we celebrate both events, artists, artworks, and buildings, each with...
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TTC: A Tour of Vaughan's Metropolitan Centre Station
"I think this may be my favourite of the stations," said Joanna Kevin, the director for Third-Party Planning and Property with the TTC's project to extend the Line 1 (Yonge–University) subway northwest...
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Photo of the Day: Maple Leaf Gardens
Today's Photo of the Day features an aerial view of an iconic building in Toronto's sporting history. Some time after being purchased by Loblaws in 2004, the historical Maple Leaf Gardens was converted...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for December 23, 2016
Hazel McCallion tells province to slow down plans to curb sprawl; Land sale brings Mississauga closer to a waterfront that avoids Toronto’s mistakes; GTA’s supply of newly built homes hits new lows,...
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UT Readers Select the Best Buildings Opened in 2016
After over two weeks of polling, UrbanToronto readers have selected the best buildings opened in 2016! Our Year-End Readers' Poll ran from December 2nd to midnight on December 20th, raking in almost...
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UrbanToronto's Photos of the Year for 2016
At the end of another very photogenic year for Toronto, we are rounding up our most popular Photo of the Day features from 2016, selecting the most viewed photo feature from each calendar month. Our...
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