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Throwback Thursday: CampusOne Student Residence
This week's Throwback Thursday presents a major change to the south side of College Street, between Spadina Avenue and Huron Street. Just over three years ago, on May 5th, 2014, Forum contributor...
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Playful Fountain Makes a Splash at Berczy Park
Closing in on six months since the late-2016 soft opening of the rebuilt Berczy Park, and work is continuing on the final elements of the 3,606 m² public space in Toronto's St. Lawrence neighbourhood....
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Revitalized Entrance to ROM Set to Better Engage Public
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has announced that the closed Queens Park entrance—disused since the opening of the Daniel Libeskind-designed Michael Lee-Chin Crystal on Bloor Street—will be revitalized...
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Woodbine Racetrack: Submission Informs Redevelopment Plan
In April, the Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) announced an ambitious redevelopment plan for the 684-acre racetrack lands east of Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Touting a "city within a...
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48-Storey Quadrangle-Designed Proposal on Duncan at Pearl
Earlier this week a new proposal was submitted to the City seeking a 48-storey mixed-use tower at the northwest corner of Duncan and Pearl Streets in Toronto's Entertainment District. Proposed on...
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U of T's New Daniels Faculty Coming to Life on Spadina Circle
"It already feels a lot bigger." Standing at the west entrance of the nearly completed architectural showpiece, that's how Dean Richard Sommer of the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of...
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Photo of the Day: Banking Hall
Today's Photo of the Day features a fish-eye perspective of the interior of CIBC's Commerce Court North banking hall in Toronto's Financial District. Submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by...
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TTC urges city to stop TIFF closure of King St.; Toronto rivers and surrounding ravines become part of Greenbelt; Drivers take a back seat in proposed King St. pilot project; and more news:TTC urges...
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'Vancouver: No Fixed Address' Playing at Ted Rogers Cinema
Following on four successful screenings earlier this month as part of the 2017 Hot Docs festival, award-winning filmmaker Charles Wilkinson's Vancouver: No Fixed Address returns to Toronto this evening...
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UPDATE: BIG's King West 2.0 Impresses the Public, Planning Less
We are re-publishing our article of May 18th about the second version of Westbank and Allied's BIG-designed proposal for their King St. West project, as the developers have now provided us with high...
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Ontario Advances High-Speed Rail Between Toronto and Windsor
High-speed trains could be barrelling between Toronto and Southwestern Ontario within the next 10 years, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced today in London and Kitchener.Ontario's Deputy Premier Deb...
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'Rear Lane' Towns Released at Adi's Stationwest in Burlington
The GTA's hot housing market stretches well beyond the Toronto city limits, and demand remains high in surrounding municipalities. Near Burlington's Aldershot GO Station, sales have gone well for the...
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Doors Open Toronto: Previewing This Year's Special Events
On Saturday May 27th and Sunday May 28th, the 18th Annual Doors Open Toronto will give visitors a rare—and free—chance to check out hundreds of seldom-seen buildings throughout the city. This year's...
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DenseCity Part 2: Toronto's Rocky History of Managing Growth
In Part 1 of our DenseCity series, we took a look at the current planning framework that governs density in Toronto, exploring where we build and why. While this analysis explains current growth...
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King Street Pilot Gets Mixed Reactions at Second Consultation
Yesterday, Thursday May 19, hundreds of people came out to the InterContinental Hotel at Front and Simcoe, to see the City of Toronto's preferred option for the King Street Pilot Project. Back in...
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Photo of the Day: Flooded Woodbine Beach
Today's Photo of the Day features a view of the newly-formed body of water on Toronto's Woodbine Beach, the product of rising Lake Ontario water levels over the past several weeks. Submitted to our...
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Berczy Park redesign displays St. Lawrence neighbourhood’s creative thinking; Honest Ed’s sign to be removed; How do we preserve the Distillery District but still make it livable?; and more news:Berczy...
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Celebrating 50 Years of GO Transit
It was 50 years ago today, on May 23, 1967, that GO Transit first began operations. Originally conceived as a three-year pilot project by the Government of Ontario (hence the acronym 'GO'), it has...
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Former Latvian House Facade Being Incorporated into New LCBO
A new LCBO location is taking shape at 491 College Street, between Markham and Palmerston in Toronto's Little Italy neighbourhood. Allied Properties REIT and RioCan are redeveloping the Classical...
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Conservatory & Richmond's 150 Pearl Presented for Feedback
On Tuesday May 16, a public consultation for The Conservatory Group's 150 Pearl St development proposal was held at Metro Hall, with about 40 members of the public in attendance. Designed by Richmond...
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