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Photo of the Day: Cleaning Glass
Toronto's extensive collection of glass-clad buildings require the work of window cleaners to keep the smooth surfaces looking sharp. In today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr...
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Brampton eyeing LRT tunnel along rejected Main St. route; The gender parity problem in Toronto's public art; What every TTC streetcar would look like as Lego; and more news...Brampton eyeing LRT tunnel...
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Lifetime and CentreCourt Celebrate the Topping Off of Karma
This past Friday was a big day for developers Lifetime and CentreCourt, as representatives of both firms were joined by Skygrid Construction crews to celebrate the official topping off of Karma Condos,...
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Whitehaus: New Renderings Elucidate Diamond Schmitt Design
With the Crosstown LRT set to make the area one of Toronto's foremost transit hubs, Yonge and Eglinton is becoming an increasingly prominent high-rise cluster. As new residential density continues to...
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Times Group Proposes Two-Tower Development near Yonge and Eglinton
With major transit improvements on the horizon, the Yonge and Eglinton area has attracted the interest of countless developers, as new proposals continue to spell out a denser, more urban future for...
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High-Rise Rental Towers Proposed at Soudan and Brownlow
Two rental towers have been proposed at the corner of Soudan and Brownlow Avenues in Midtown Toronto. Located at the southeast edge of the Yonge and Eglinton area, the Benvenuto Group development at...
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Pusateri's Opens First Food Hall at Saks Fifth Avenue
The first of the Pusateri's Food Halls at Saks Fifth Avenue has opened at the US luxury department store's Sherway Gardens location in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke. Sharing the lower level with the...
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Photo of the Day: Yard Work
In today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by BruceK, we are taken to the TTC's Greenwood yard. This shot features the yellow-painted RT-20, a 1980-built Niigata...
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Toronto’s Art Deco legacy celebrated; How Toronto Can Improve Its Parks System; Brampton council kills LRT tunnel proposal; and more newsToronto’s Art Deco legacy celebrated (Spacing)Brampton council...
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Worldwide Business: Inside Peter McCann's Model Making Studio
Our sister site SkyriseCities.com recently toured the Toronto offices of model maker Peter McCann, who has crafted the pre-construction scale models for notable projects around the world, including the...
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Tridel's Unique Form Condos Coming to McCaul Street
Just south of OCAD's iconic Sharp Centre for Design—better known as Will Alsop's tabletop building—two new architectsAlliance-designed buildings will add a modernist presence to Toronto's McCaul...
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Commercial Development for Avenue Road North of Lawrence
The world is changing in the digital age, and services that we depended upon just a dozen years ago have evolved in ways we never expected. Canada Post now handles more packages and fewer letters, so...
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Scale Model Puts the Tower at Pier 27 into Water's Edge Context
Cityzen Development Group and Fernbrook Homes' Pier 27 community at the foot of Yonge Street is set to grow again with the addition of the 35-storey Tower at Pier 27. Designed by architectsAlliance's...
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Relief Line: Are the Public Consultations Really Just Briefings?
Following decades of virtually no progress on building a Relief Line to alleviate congestion on the Yonge Subway, recent months have seen Toronto City Planning spring into action. City Planning's...
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Photo of the Day: CNE Bandshell
Exhibition Place is home to a wide catalogue of Art Deco and Modernist architecture, with several notable examples scattered throughout the grounds. In today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the...
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Pilot project for bike lanes on Bloor Street could open by summer; What will rapid transit in Toronto look like in 15 years?; Is Anything Left of SmartTrack?; and more newsHuge mural by Phlegm going up...
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Lifetime Proposes Terraced Residential at Wellington and Draper
Steps west of the site of the much-anticipated mixed-use project 'The Well', Lifetime Developments has proposed a 16-storey mixed-use building for the southwest corner of Wellington Street West and...
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Only a Handful of Units Remain at Briar Hill City Towns
Sales continue for Madison Homes' Briar Hill City Towns, and a recent visit to the project's presentation centre by UrbanToronto contributor Johnny Au reveals that just a handful of units remain...
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Exploring the Amenity Offerings for 609 Avenue Road
Last month we got a sneak peek at the scale model for State Building Group and Madison Homes' 609 Avenue Road, providing insight into how the 19-storey Richmond Architects-designed development will fit...
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Meeting Waterfront Toronto's New CEO at ULI's 'Fireside Chat'
"Let's take that goal of 80% Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050 and work backwards from there,"Waterfront Toronto's new CEO William Fleissig told the audience. In conversation with urban designer Ken...
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