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Fuse and Fuse2 Condos Taking Shape Along Dupont Street
Over the past decade, Neudorfer Corporation has played a major role in the conversion of the former General Electric Canada lands along the GO Barrie Line. Now known as Davenport Village, the area...
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Toronto Transit Plans: In The End What We Get Is Up To Us
With the TTC and Metrolinx unveiling maps earlier in February showing an extensive network criss-crossing the city by 2031, transit supporters could be forgiven for heaving a sigh of relief.An...
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401 Bay—aka the Simpsons Tower—to Receive a New Skin
The skin of a building is, by its very nature temporary. The desire for its permanence an unrealistic expectation of materials that were often novel in their application and untested in their...
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Architecture From the Ground Up: Alfonso Medina at Ryerson
Ryerson University's Department of Architectural Studies will host a lecture by acclaimed Mexican architect Alfonso Medina. Held on February 25th at 6:30 PM, the event is part of the DAS Lecture...
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Bjarke Ingels Brings "Yes is More"—and New Design—to Toronto
A little past 7 PM yesterday, Koerner Hall filled with some of Toronto's most prominent city-builders, as a who's who of architects, planners, designers, and developers, took their seats. The star of...
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Photo of the Day: Saks Fifth Avenue
Last week's opening of the first Canadian location of Saks Fifth Avenue garnered much attention from the media, and plenty of interior and exterior photos of the store are now being submitted to our...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for February 25, 2016
Exhibit celebrates Jewish architect’s imprint on nearly 100 Toronto buildings; 50 years on the Bloor-Danforth subway; More rental housing could be coming to Toronto; and more newsExhibit celebrates...
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Throwback Thursday: Foot of Yonge Street
Several new developments near the foot of Yonge Street have changed the view from the end of the street in recent years, evidenced in this week's Throwback Thursday. Back in 2009, the view north from...
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The Met in Vaughan Experiences Strong First Week of Sales
A new condominium development in Vaughan from Plaza and Berkley Developments is serving as a testament to the strength of the GTA housing market. In just its first week of sales, The Met, a Quadrangle...
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Understanding Toronto's Heritage Conservation Districts
In a city continuously facing intense development pressure, the politics of heritage preservation often prove a decisive factor in influencing the scope of urban growth. For an individual property,...
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Excavation in Full Swing for ZIGG Condos on St. Clair
When we last checked up on the St. Clair Avenue West site of Madison and Fieldgate's ZIGG Condos in January, crews were in the process of shoring the site for the 11-storey, Kirkor Architects-designed...
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Developer Seeks to Improve and Densify Maple Leaf Quay
Developer Coal Harbour Properties (a division of Vancouver-based Retirement Concepts) bought the rental apartment buildings at Maple Leaf Quay a few years ago, and has been working to improve the...
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Topping Off February 2016: What's Hot on UrbanToronto
Time to round up another month of city-building, transportation, and real estate talk in Toronto, with a look at our hottest news stories, dataBase files, and Forum threads from the month of...
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Making the Case for a Multi-Modal Hub at Pearson Airport
With a working population of nearly half a million, Toronto's burgeoning Downtown is the premier economic region in Canada, with the greatest output of prosperity generated in the heart of the...
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Ontario Association of Architects Reveals 2016 Awards Finalists
Over 200 submissions from some of Ontario's brightest young minds and established architectural firms alike have been narrowed down to just 20 finalists for the 2016 Ontario Association of Architects...
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Reclaim the Name: Giving the 'Under Gardiner' Plan a Moniker
The late-2015 unveiling of a massive plan to improve the underside of the aging Gardiner Expressway, made possible through a generous philanthropic donation from Judy and Wil Matthews, has garnered...
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Menkes Proposes 49-Storey Tower at 771 Yonge Street
In recent years, the intersection of Yonge and Bloor has been the site of some of Toronto's tallest proposals and construction projects, with the 76-storey 1 Bloor East—now topped off—potentially set...
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Toronto East of the Don: Growth to Watch for in 2016
East of the Don River, to Leslieville, The Beach, and beyond—to neighbourhoods that until recently were among the last stalwart holdouts of Toronto's early 1900s mix of single-family residential...
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Photo of the Day: Toronto in Blue
In today's Photo of the Day, which was submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Empty Quarter, we are shown a view of Toronto captured from a plane on approach to Billy Bishop airport. In addition...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for March 2, 2016
Power outage sounds alarm bells over Toronto’s failing transit infrastructure; When Is a GO Train not a GO Train? When It’s UPX!; Ryerson light installation a beacon for the homeless; and more...
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