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Midtown Toronto's J. Davis House Condos Now 75% Sold Out
On the east side of Yonge Street in Midtown Toronto, Mattamy and Biddington's J. Davis House has reached a key sales milestone. With the 9-storey, 191-unit condominium now 75% sold out, the Graziani +...
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Scale Model a Highlight at Backyard Condos Grand Opening
Following last month's successful "friends & family"sales launch, Etobicoke's Backyard Neighbourhood Condos welcomes the general public with this weekend's grand opening event. Promising a...
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Amenities Coming Together at oneeleven Condominiums
We have been closely following the finishing stages of construction at Harhay Developments and Carttera Private Equities' oneeleven Condos, a 17-storey, Core Architects-designed condominium development...
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Toronto Must Find Ways To Pay For New Transit Infrastructure
A flurry of new reports, aimed at the June 28th meeting of Toronto's Executive Committee, are making clearer the costs of the City's ambitious transit network plan and they make grim reading when...
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Photo of the Day: The Water Guardians
In today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Randy Hoffmann, we are shown a recent art installation in Toronto's West Don Lands community. Created by Jennifer Marman and...
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CN Tower celebrates 40 years as a tourist magnet and lightning rod; Riding the rails with the TTC's Andy Byford; Independent retail still thriving at street level in Toronto; and more newsCN Tower...
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Major Expansion of Bike Share Toronto Network Starting
Following last week's extended outage of the Toronto Bike Share network, the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA)—the new operator of the system—and the provincial transit agency Metrolinx are offsetting...
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Cladding Rising On Mattamy and Biddington's Riva del Lago
Since topping off at 16 storeys in May, installation of the cladding has made quite an impact at the Humber Bay Shores site of Mattamy Homes and the Biddington Group's Riva del Lago. The new Graziani +...
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Touring Lifetime's Topped-Off The Bond Condominiums
Construction of Lifetime Developments' The Bond reached a major milestone this month, as the Core Architects-designed condominium tower has reached its final 42-storey height in Toronto's Entertainment...
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Fine-Grained Urbanism Evolves 88 Queen East Redevelopment
Just east of the Downtown core, Queen Street's long, full-block parking lot is an obvious chasm in Toronto's urban fabric. Surrounded by this century's towers and the previous centuries' brick...
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Photo of the Day: RAW SHIFT Party
Last week, local architecture firm RAW Design hosted their 9th annual shindig in a storefront on Queen Street, just east of Broadview. This year's "RAW SHIFT" event brought together a number of big...
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Plan for Scarborough Bluffs goes to the public as residents push back against development; Tory's published defence of Scarborough subway draws fresh criticism; Toronto Bike Share to take 'giant step...
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Ward 20 Community Celebrates Grange Park Progress
On June 27, 2016, a year ahead of the project's expected completion, members of Toronto's Trinity-Spadina community gathered at Grange Park. Framed by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and OCAD U's...
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St. Michael's Hospital Addition Rising at Queen and Victoria
It has been almost exactly five months since construction of a 17-storey addition to St. Michael's Hospital reached grade at the northeast corner of Queen and Victoria Streets. In the time since, the...
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New Sculpture at Toronto City Hall Commemorates Canadian Soldiers in Italian...
A sculpture commemorating more than 93,000 Canadians who fought in the Italian Campaign of World War II—an often overlooked but vital part of Europe’s fight for liberation from Nazi Germany—has been...
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OMB-Mediated Developments to Urbanize Stretch of Dupont
A number of mid-rise, mixed-use developments on a stretch of Toronto's Dupont Street are preparing to go ahead thanks to mediated settlements at the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). The once primarily...
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Photo of the Day: Clean Windows
Designed by KPMB Architects and Adamson Associates Architects, the 44-storey east tower of Brookfield Office Properties' Bay Adelaide Centre continues to fill up with new tenants. The project recently...
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Ambitious – and expensive – transit plans debated at Toronto city hall; Residents split over new Scarborough shoreline trail; Jury’s still out on subway’s impact on immigrants; and more newsAmbitious –...
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Explainer: Tuned Mass Damping to Counteract Sway
Earlier this month, we introduced UrbanToronto's newest feature, called 'Explainer.' This weekly series provides an overview of the terms used in the architecture, design, construction, and real estate...
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The Hearn: What's Next for Toronto's Sleeping Giant?
The 2016 Luminato Festival has injected a shot of life into the rusting hulk of the Hearn Generating Station, as thousands of people flocked to the Port Lands over the past two weeks to take in the...
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