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Westmount Boutique Residences Proposed for Sheppard West

Late last month, plans were submitted to the City of Toronto Planning Department for a new mid-rise residential development at 700 Sheppard Avenue West, a couple blocks west of Bathurst. Submitted on...

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Tridel's Form Condos Joining a Changing McCaul Street

Only a couple months after the launch of Tridel's Form Condos in Downtown Toronto, the mid-rise condominium development is already over 95% sold out. Set to rise just south of Will Alsop's iconic Sharp...

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Photo of the Day: Mississauga Civic Centre

Designed by architects Jones and Kirkland and completed in 1987, the Mississauga Civic Centre serves as the home of the municipality's city hall. The building features a Postmodern design that plays...

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Daily Headlines: News From the Internet for May 12, 2016

Top 5 reasons to roll out the Bike Plan as soon as possible; Build Toronto Torn Between Affordable Housing and Making Money; Mississauga bans UberX and other ride-hailing services; and more newsTop 5...

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Throwback Thursday: Skyline View from the Bathurst Bridge

This week's Throwback Thursday takes us to the historic Bathurst Street Bridge for an illustration of just how much the Toronto skyline has been transformed in the last decade. Back on February 27,...

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Wood Takes Centre Stage at Fieldgate and Hullmark's Heartwood

At Queen and Woodbine, Fieldgate and Hullmark's Heartwood The Beach will add a mid-rise presence to the northeast corner of this popular Toronto neighbourhood. Like many of the more modestly scaled...

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Plaza and Berkeley's The Met Joining Vaughan's New Downtown

As the TTC's Line 1 extends beyond the city limits into Vaughan, the suburban community north of Toronto is quickly becoming transformed with new urban density. Concentrated around the upcoming transit...

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Toronto Ward Boundary Report: Public Info Session Coming Up

The City of Toronto is inviting the public to an information session regarding the Toronto Ward Boundary Review.The largest city in Canada and the fourth largest city in North America, Toronto is an...

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Menkes Applying for Significant Intensification of LCBO Lands

Last week, the Province of Ontario announced the $260 million sale of the LCBO lands, located just east of the foot of Yonge Street in Downtown Toronto. Accompanying the announcement, preliminary plans...

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Photo of the Day: MaRS Centre

In today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Empty Quarter, we are shown an aerial view of Toronto's MaRS Centre at College and University. The first phase of the...

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Daily Headlines: News From the Internet for May 13, 2016

Fare bargain triples ridership on UPX; Provincial changes could help 'retrofit' the suburbs for coming population booms; Eighteenth new street car in service; and more newsFare bargain triples...

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Restoration and Rooftop Addition Proposed for 2 Queen West

Cadillac Fairview's plans for a 65-storey 580-unit rental tower at 2 Queen West drew much attention when originally proposed a few years ago. Since then, the sky scraping application for the Zeidler...

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Playful Paving Pattern Materializing at Berczy Park

Several weeks after the completion of grading work for the re-built Berczy Park, the first design elements are now apparent at the public space bounded by Front, Scott, and Wellington Streets in...

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13-Storey Rental Tower Proposed at 2525 Bathurst Street

While Toronto's Forest Hill neighbourhood is best known for its posh single-family housing and luxury lifestyle, the neighbourhood's northern reaches offer an abundance of rental towers containing...

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Previewing the Floorplans at Midtown's J. Davis House

Between the high-rise clusters at Eglinton and St. Clair, Mattamy and Biddington's J. Davis House joins a more intimate stretch of Yonge Street in Davisville. Designed by Graziani + Corazza, the...

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29-Storey Proposal at College and Beverley Appealed to OMB

First submitted to the City of Toronto last August, the Parallax Investment Corporation's proposal for a 33-storey tower at 203 College Street drew criticism from adjacent Ward 20 residents and...

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Architecture is Culture: Ontario's Half-baked Culture Strategy

Last year, the Province moved forward in drafting the first official Culture Strategy in Ontario's history. Envisioning "[a]n Ontario where every person has the opportunity for creative expression and...

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Photo of the Day: Podium

In today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the One Bloor East Forum thread by contributor Benito, we are shown an aerial view of the podium at Great Gulf's One Bloor East. This shot provides a great...

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Daily Headlines: News From the Internet for May 16, 2016

Toronto considers adding Kensington Market to list of heritage districts; New city ward map would add three councillors; Where shall we build new GO stations?; and more newsToronto considers adding...

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Introducing University Towns in Oshawa

The success of Podium Developments and Building Capital's University Studios—which sold out in just two weeks of sales—has underlined the continuing demand for student housing in college towns...

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