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Toronto Event Showcases Shortlisted Projects for 2016 Aga Khan Award for...
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has been recognizing excellence in design for nearly 40 years, and this year's line-up of shortlisted projects is no exception. At a special event this past Saturday...
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Two Townhomes Remain at Madison's Briar Hill City Towns
Since launching last year, Madison Homes' Briar Hill City Towns, a Kirkor Architects-designed stacked townhome development in Toronto's Fairbank neighbourhood, has proven to be very appealing to...
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Cladding Sealing Off Fuse Condos as Fuse2 Nears Final Height
Since we last checked in on the progress of Neudorfer Corporation's Fuse and Fuse2 Condos about a month ago, much progress has been made on the two-tower development in Toronto's Davenport Village...
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2,000,000 Users: Presto Card Adoption Up 25% In A Year
Metrolinx has announced its two millionth Presto card holder, a figure that is up by around 500,000 in the last year. In Toronto, the rollout of Presto readers to buses has begun, all streetcars now...
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The Esplanade: Touring the Changed—and Changing—Street
Looking toward the intersection of Yonge Street and The Esplanade, it can be hard to imagine the Downtown Toronto site just 10 years ago, when the 58-storey L Tower and the 36-storey Backstage had yet...
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Photo of the Day: Rainbow
Today's Photo of the Day comes to us from Forum contributor UrbanOptic, who captured this fantastic view of a rainbow over Toronto's South Core area. Captured from the east tower of Ïce Condominiums,...
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Toronto’s lost architecture; Debate over new Toronto ward boundaries delayed until October; Ontario's affordable housing wait list grows; and more newsToronto’s lost architecture (Toronto Star)Do...
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Crane Raised and Below Grade Levels Underway at ZIGG Condos
In just one month, the St. Clair Avenue West site of Madison Homes and Fieldgate Urban's ZIGG Condos has been dramatically transformed. At the time of our last update, the site's excavation was in the...
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Exec Committee Clears Expo 2025 Feasibility Study to Proceed
A movement led by notable city builders and leaders to bid for the 2025 World Expo prompted the Executive Committee on Tuesday to move forward on pre-bid work. Hosted every five years, the Expo serves...
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Shoring Work Prepares 1 Yorkville Site for Excavation
Compared with its appearance a decade ago, the Bloor-Yorkville skyline of today is almost completely unrecognizable, with glittering glass towers popping up all over the neighbourhood. One of the next...
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Tower at Pier 27: A First Look at the Amenities
Alongside the four completed buildings of Cityzen and Fernbrook's Waterlink at Pier 27, the foot of Yonge Street will see another architectsAlliance-designed project join Toronto's waterfront. Angled...
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Diam's On The Danforth Design Caters To Residents' Needs
While often overshadowed by the cultural offerings found on the Greektown stretch of Toronto's Danforth Avenue—more often just "The Danforth"—the more affordable eastern stretches of the arterial...
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The Dirt: Province Moves to Regulate Excavated—and Toxic—Soils
In Toronto's skyline of cranes and concrete, it's almost impossible not to notice the impact of development. With a decade-long boom showing little sign of slowing down, ours is a city under...
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Photo of the Day: PCC Streetcar
Today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Adrian Badaraco, captures a historic PCC streetcar in the Bathurst and Lake Shore area. The 1951-built streetcar is back for...
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Toronto’s new Cycling Network Plan: What’s in store for Scarborough?; ‘Waterfront reset’ examines way to extend transit to new neighbourhoods along the lakeshore; Pop-up fresh food markets coming into...
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Throwback Thursday: BMO Field
For two consecutive years, Toronto's BMO Field has undergone dramatic transformations. The soccer stadium underwent a major expansion of capacity that was completed in May 2015, followed by a second...
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STARGATE Pushes the (Galactic) Boundaries of Public Art
For all its advantages, "playful" and "uninhibited" aren't the adjectives that come to mind when describing Toronto's Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood. Instead, the livable, dense, and transit-friendly...
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609 Avenue Road Joins Growing St. Clair West Corridor
Slightly north of the St. Clair West corridor, a 19-storey condominium at 609 Avenue Road is adding new density to Toronto's sought-after Forest Hill area. Located just south of Upper Canada College...
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Under Gardiner: UrbanToronto Voters Get More Options
Following reports of "ballot box stuffing," Waterfront Toronto has announced that the renaming campaign for Project: Under Gardiner has been partially re-set. As quoted in the Toronto Star, a...
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Inside the II BY IV-designed Lobby at Harhay's oneeleven
Construction is now wrapping up at the Bathurst and Adelaide site of Harhay Developments and Carttera Private Equities' oneeleven Condos, with occupancies now underway up to the 15th floor of the...
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