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Touring Toronto's New Globe and Mail Centre
Last week, UrbanToronto toured First Gulf's 17-storey Globe and Mail Centre in the city's Downtown East district. Partially opened in late 2016, the Diamond Schmitt Architects-designed LEED Gold...
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Gardiner Off-Ramp Closure To Pave Way for South Core Upgrade
In the works since 2008, preparatory work for the removal of the Gardiner Expressway's eastbound York-Bay-Yonge off-ramp is well underway, with the busy double-ramp set to be permanently closed as of...
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New Preferred Relief Line Alignment Identified Under Leslieville
In July 2016, the City of Toronto approved its preferred alignment for Phase I of the Relief Line (RL) project, also known as the Downtown Relief Line (DRL). While the alignment was generally well...
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Photo of the Day: Skyline View
Today's Photo of the Day takes us to the top of First Gulf's Globe and Mail Centre for a view from the building's 17th floor terrace. Facing west towards the city centre, this view highlights the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for April 11, 2017
Construction season in Toronto about to ramp up; Toronto mayor John Tory open to selling some of the city’s 7,000 buildings to fund projects; The wild neighbours encroaching on Toronto’s urban spaces;...
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Site Plan Advances East Downtown's home: Power and Adelaide
Still occupied by a slightly eclectic combination of surface parking, single-family homes, a mid-rise commercial building, and a pair of recently shuttered automotive business, the redevelopment of the...
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Design Evolves for Alterra's 321 Davenport Boutique Condos
It has been just over a year since a proposal was submitted by the Alterra Group of Companies seeking to build a boutique condominium development at 321 Davenport Road, on the west side between Dupont...
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Province Issues RFQ for 18 km Highway 401 Widening
On April 10th the Province announced that it had issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to widen an 18 km stretch of Highway 401 through Peel and Halton Regions. The proposed widening will run from...
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Revamped Two-Tower Project Advances at King and Dufferin
Not quite Liberty Village, and not quite Parkdale, the intersection of King and Dufferin is one of Toronto's transitional spaces. Hemmed in by rail tracks to the north, with mature neighbourhoods to...
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Site Plan Approval Sought for High Park Micro Retail Project
An injection of new retail and childcare space could be coming to High Park Station on the Bloor-Danforth subway, as a 2016 proposal for 12 High Park Avenue continues to work its way through the City...
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88 Queen East Readying for Construction, Rezoning Resubmitted
The end is finally in sight for one of the largest surface parking lots in Downtown Toronto, more immediately on the northern third of the 171-metre long site than the south. Bounded by Shuter on the...
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Photo of the Day: Massey Tower Rising
Today's Photo of the Day features a view of a new landmark rising above Yonge Street, just north of Queen. Construction of MOD Developments Inc's Massey Tower Condos has been progressing quickly over...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for April 12, 2017
Is the Ashbridges Bay beach disappearing?; Metro's Ani Castillo behind guerilla art installation at Honest Ed's; Some wacky and wonderful ideas for making the Rogers Centre a better place to watch the...
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Explainer: The Decline of Lift Slab Construction
This week, SkyriseCities''Explainer' takes a look at a highly innovative—and once-popular—construction technology, which has been all but relegated to the dustbin of 20th century history in North...
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Neighbourhood Node: Keeping Up with Talk in the UT Forum
With Spring fitfully settling into the city, a look into the Toronto discussions in the 'Neighbourhood Node' threads of UT's Forum sheds light on the city at the fine-grained community level. Whether...
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Cladding Installation Nears Completion for Aqualina at Bayside
Toronto's newest lakefront community will soon have its first residents as construction of Tridel and Hines' Aqualina at Bayside draws closer to completion on Queens Quay, just east of Lower...
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CIBC Announced as Anchor Tenant for Bay Park Centre
CIBC, the Canadian financial services titan, has announced that it will be the anchor tenant at Hines and Ivanhoe Cambridge's long-anticipated Bay Park Centre, which will eventually be renamed to...
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GM Submits Plans for New "Mobility Campus" on Eastern Avenue
When General Motors Canada (GM) purchased the site of the former Cinespace film and television studio at 721 Eastern Avenue, their initial plans were to construct a new Canadian headquarters for their...
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"Transit City": Plans Revealed for York Region's Tallest Building
North of Toronto, York Region's tallest building could reach a height of 55 storeys. Announced today, the SmartREIT and CentreCourt Developments project dubbed 'Transit City Condos' will be designed by...
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Photo of the Day: Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence
Today’s Photo of the Day features a view of York University's new Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence. The 2015-opened educational facility boasts an eye-catching design by ZAS Architects,...
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