Terraced Mid-Rise "The Step" to Ascend on Islington Avenue
Rising land values are unlocking new development potential in several areas around Toronto, bringing new opportunities for urban intensification in areas that allow developers to pass on savings to...
View ArticleCladding Installation Next at Grimsby's Waterview Condominiums
Today's high price tags that come with Toronto's red-hot housing market are creating spillover demand in adjacent markets. In the Hamilton-Burlington area, Grimsby is experiencing a wave of residential...
View ArticlePinnacle Propose 25-Storey Turner Fleischer Design in Etobicoke
As Dundas Street curves southwest from Toronto's Kipling Station, a growing agglomeration of residential high-rises is clustering around the TTC's Line 2 terminus. Immediately west of the station, the...
View ArticleAchim Zeman's Straight Forward Unveiled at Concord Park Place
Toronto's city-wide building boom is resulting in public art wherever new buildings pop up, adding colour and texture to the city, and enlivening streetscapes where sometimes the buildings on their own...
View ArticleCityPlace: Public Art Officially Unveiled at Quartz and Spectra
From the expressway, the coloured strata of Katharine Harvey's Gardiner Streams stare back at the nighttime traffic, transposing the banality of the road into a work of art. Installed in 2014, the...
View ArticleExplainer: Official Plan
This week, UrbanToronto's 'Explainer' series continues with another look at a term often used on our site. This time, it's the 'Official Plan.' The City of Toronto's Official Plan is frequently...
View ArticleRetail Space Taking Shape at King + Condos
It was November 2015 when we last looked at the King and Sherbourne site of King + Condos, a new 17-storey condominium tower by King Plus Development on Toronto's east side. At the time hoarding was...
View ArticleMonde Condominium Construction Approaches Grade Level
The once industrial stretch of Toronto's waterfront now being reborn as the East Bayfront district will soon be home to thousands of residents, adding a round-the-clock population to an area that...
View ArticleStreet Artist Phlegm Completes Huge Work at Yonge and St. Clair
Almost exactly three years since public arts organization 'The STEPS Initiative' unveiled plans for the since-realized "World's Tallest Mural" at 200 Wellesley Street East, the organization is...
View ArticleTory Announces Plan for 21-Acre "Rail Deck Park" Downtown
Standing at the northwestern edge of Concord CityPlace's Block 36 North, Mayor John Tory announced a plan to create a 21-acre park above the rail corridor that cuts through an area that has quickly...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Rotman School of Management
The 2012 expansion of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management by KPMB Architects added a new $93 million building to the university's fast-changing main campus. Today's Photo of the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for August 4, 2016
TTC chief won’t endorse ‘unpalatable’ budget cuts; The skinny on Toronto's new extra skinny condos; ‘Troubling trend’ seen as Toronto posts record July home sales; and more newsTTC chief won’t endorse...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Fashion House
This week's Throwback Thursday covers a recent heritage restoration in Toronto's King West neighbourhood. Over three years ago, construction was well underway at the site of Freed Developments' Fashion...
View ArticleBerczy Park: Fountain Installed as Fall Completion Targeted
Though the one-of-a-kind park's planned summer opening has been pushed back to October 31st, there has been plenty of construction progress at Toronto's Berczy Park in recent weeks. With the 'dog days'...
View ArticleMajor Residential Development Proposed Near Wilson Subway
The area east of Wilson subway station on TTC Line 1 has been in a state of flux for some time. Recent developments such as Gramercy Park and The Station Condos have added new life to the area, while...
View ArticleExhibit Residences' Shifting Design Shapes Up on Bloor West
Directly across the street from the jagged form of the ROM's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, the Rosario Varacalli-designed Exhibit Residences is now in the latter stages of construction on Toronto's Bloor...
View ArticleTerraced Mid-Rise Rental Proposed on Dundas at the Humber
A recent proposal tabled for a site on Dundas Street immediately west of the Humber River aims to create an appropriate transition between the medium density developments to the west and the...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Rosedale Valley Bridge
The prescient inclusion of a rail deck below the main expanse of the Prince Edward Viaduct—decades before the construction of the Bloor-Danforth subway line—is a well known bit of Toronto trivia. Fewer...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for August 5, 2016
Why the Proposed Rail Deck Park Should Make Toronto Hopeful; Byford says TTC’s pinching pennies, would not oppose task force; Toronto drivers are already parking in the Bloor Street bike lanes; and...
View ArticleHabitat for Humanity Breaks Ground on Scarborough Build
Yesterday morning, members of the Toronto Foundation board of directors and Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area (Habitat GTA) were joined by Mayor John Tory to celebrate the ground breaking of a...
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