Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre: Addition Coming to Sunnybrook
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is proposing a new addition to its complex. The new wing will be named the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre. The proposed development includes a two storey storey Brain...
View ArticleThe Beer Stores Saga Continues with Bloor & Islington High-Rise
That makes it a six-pack. Across Toronto, half a dozen Beer Store sites now face the prospect of redevelopment, with the low-slung retailers—all fronted by generous surface parking—set to be replaced...
View ArticleAllied Looks to Build Over Spadina-Adelaide Heritage Offices
Allied Properties REIT is looking to bring new office space to a trio of properties they own at the southwest corner of Spadina and Adelaide in Toronto's Fashion District. Two of the...
View ArticleAn Enduring Wilderness: Finding Nature in the Heart of the City
The urban vignette that opens Robert Burley's An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands captures much of what is unique about our city's landscape:I look through my camera down into the Don...
View ArticleConstruction Continues at 101 St Clair and Blue Diamond Condos
Work continues on both 101 St. Clair West (now known as 'One O One') and at the Blue Diamond condos at Avenue Road and St. Clair in Midtown Toronto. Both projects are developed by Camrost Felcorp and...
View Article36-Storey Mixed-Use Tower Proposed at Yonge and Soudan
Toronto's Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood is poised to grow taller yet again as new high-rise development proposals continue to challenge the neighbourhood skyline. The latest proposal comes from...
View ArticleIntegral Man: Music, Math, and Architecture Meet in Rosedale
The camera looks at—and out of—buildings, but seldom really inhabits them. It's an obvious problem; how do you express the three-dimensional quality of space on a two-dimensional screen? I pose that...
View ArticleNew Plans Reveal Massive Scope of 9-Tower Pinnacle Etobicoke
West of Kipling Station, plans have been submitted for what is now a nine-tower community, with a new—and much taller—height peak of 56 storeys. Developed by Pinnacle International, the 'Pinnacle...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Canada 150 Fireworks
This year's Canada Day marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation, and a number of large-scale fireworks displays were enjoyed around the country during the recent long weekend to celebrate the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for July 6, 2017
Toronto's Twitter bike cop forced to tone it down, but bike lane campaign could get a boost; Are Laneway Suites a Solution to Toronto’s Housing Crisis?; Opponents lose fight against Yonge-Eglinton...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Corus Quay
This week's Throwback Thursday covers one of the pioneering developments in Toronto's East Bayfront district. Before Sugar Beach and the Waterfront promenade transformed the area into a people place,...
View ArticleKingsett Capital's 475 Yonge Redesigned in Latest Submission
A little over a year has passed since KingSett Capital first submitted their proposal to redevelop the Courtyard Marriott Toronto Downtown Hotel site at 475 Yonge Street. One of many major...
View ArticlePeriod of Flux: GTA Home Sales Decline as New Listings Increase
In the weeks since the provincial government introduced Ontario's Fair Housing Plan to curb an overheated housing market, the effects of the new policy are being felt in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)...
View Article130 QQE Nearing Final Height at Daniels Waterfront
New construction is in the process of creating new residential and employment lands in Toronto's nascent East Bayfront district. Among the pioneering developments set to prime the new neighbourhood...
View ArticleCorner Suites Tempt at Stafford's Downsview Park Townhomes
Taking over part of the former Stanley Greene Canadian Forces housing complex just south of Downsview Park, Stafford Developments is introducing new luxury housing to Toronto. Taking on one of the very...
View ArticleHigh-Rise Proposal Surfaces Following Contentious Demolition
Six months before an application was filed with the City of Toronto, the Midtown site at the southwest corner of Yonge and Roselawn was already a wellspring of controversy. In January of this year, the...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: 510 in Motion
Today's Photo of the Day features a view of streetcars in motion. Submitted to our Flickr Pool by Paul Flynn, this long exposure view shows two of the TTC's Flexity Outlook streetcars on the 510...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for July 7, 2017
Crane on top of downtown building finally ready to come down; Council approves King St. pilot to prioritize streetcars, but bows to taxi industry; GTA housing prices drop after Ontario implements...
View ArticlePlans Advance for 'The Guildwood' at Eglinton and Kingston
A few months shy of two years has passed since Scollard Development Corporation first proposed their vision at 3655 Kingston Road in Scarborough. The proposal, dubbed The Guildwood, envisioned a...
View ArticlePodium and Point Tower Planned at Sheppard East and Warden
An updated Site Plan Approval for a mid-rise condominium on Sheppard Avenue East just east of Warden Avenue has been resubmitted to the City by Quadcam Development Group Inc. The new submission brings...
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