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Tall Building Setback Changes Proposed for Downtown Toronto
The Planning Department's ongoing TOcore initiative is studying a wide range of issues currently facing our rapidly growing city, and could bring about sweeping changes to design and planning in...
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Diamond on Yonge: Previewing the One-Bedroom Suites
Since the turn of the millennium, Toronto's development boom has brought an influx of one-bedroom condominiums to the city. Many of the city's recently built high-rises are dominated by smaller...
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Fall Construction Start Announced For 609 Avenue Road
Launched last year, Madison Homes and State Building Group's 609 Avenue Road is poised to begin construction this Fall, with the 19-storey condominium joining the dense corridor just south of Toronto's...
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Build Toronto Assembles Redevelopment Site in Scarborough
Since its establishment in 2008 as a means to maximize the value of City-owned lands, Build Toronto has spurred development plans for a handful of high-profile sites, including Ten York Street and 4050...
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Photo of the Day: Ship Channel
Stretching 2.8 kilometres into Toronto's Port Lands from the harbour, the 700-metre wide ship channel allows shipping traffic to reach the interior of the large industrial area. In today's Photo of the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for July 26, 2016
Bloor bike lane construction begins next week; Michael Ford wins Toronto byelection to take over his late uncle Rob Ford’s council seat; John Tory commits to protecting anti-poverty plan investments;...
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Mid-Rise With Some Affordable Housing Proposed in West End
Though 2016’s provincial Promoting Affordable Housing Act has yet to pass and bring with it a new age of inclusionary zoning in Toronto, it appears that a handful of new proposals are taking the...
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59-Storey Mixed-Use Tower Proposed at 100 Simcoe Street
Another high-rise tower has been proposed for Toronto's Entertainment District, with a rezoning application submitted to the City to allow a 59-storey building at 100 Simcoe Street. Situated on the...
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Dewatering Latest Step in 50 at Wellesley Station's Excavation
We have been keeping a close eye on the construction of Plaza's 50 at Wellesley Station following the late-2015 start of site activity for the 37-storey Quadrangle Architects-designed condominium tower...
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Poll Asks Public to Help Name New Park at 11 Wellesley West
The City of Toronto wants your help naming the new 1.6 acre park coming to Toronto's Yonge and Wellesley area! With a shortlist of three names, voting is now open to name the L-shaped park bounded by...
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MOD, Woodcliffe, and YMCA to Redevelop Waterworks Building
Toronto is a city of invisible histories. Where condos, parking lots and parks stand in place of bygone civic landmarks, the city wears the clothes of a younger place. West of Spadina, Maud Street is...
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Photo of the Day: Downtown Verticality
Today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Dave Jackson, features the recently-completed 78-storey Aura at College Park in Downtown Toronto. Framed by Financial District...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for July 27, 2016
Newest Councillor Michael Ford ‘a little milder than Rob and Doug’; Did Eliminating 504 King Car Stops Make Any Difference?; One-third of bicycle crashes in downtown Toronto involve streetcar tracks;...
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Explainer: Floor Space Index
Our weekly 'Explainer' returns with an overview of the term 'Floor Space Index,' courtesy of our sister site, SkyriseCities.com. You'll often see the term Floor Space Index—or, for those in the know,...
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Graywood's SCOOP Condos Coming to Eclectic St. Clair West
Across the street, the neon cross fronting Toronto's Faith Impact Ministry Inc. reads 'JESUS SAVES.' To the east, the fine-grained retail landscape is still full of Italian and Portuguese cafés, and...
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Revised Proposal Emerges for World's Biggest Bookstore Site
For almost two years, the former Edward Street site of Toronto's defunct World's Biggest Bookstore has sat empty. Initially envisioned as a low-rise 'restaurant row' in early 2014, the plan for the...
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Previewing The Met Condos Presentation Centre in Vaughan
With sales quickly progressing for Plaza and Berkeley's The Met, a 35-storey condominium tower coming to Jane Street north of Highway 7 in Vaughan, we paid a visit to the project's presentation centre...
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24 Mercer: Scott Shields Architects' Super-Thin Tower Evolves
Tucked in amongst Toronto's ever-expanding cluster of Entertainment District high-rises, the proposed 17-storey building at 24 Mercer Street would hardly register for its height alone. However,...
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Photo of the Day: Sunset Silhouette
Today's Photo of the Day, submitted to the UrbanToronto Flickr Pool by Adrian Badaraco, comes to us from a residential unit in Toronto's new West Don Lands neighbourhood. Captured at sunset, this...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News From the Internet for July 28, 2016
Toronto cyclists talk 'dangerous' streetcar tracks; Why A Woodlot Could Add Millions to the Cost of the Scarborough Subway Extension; Hamilton joins Vancouver, Toronto, others on CMHC list of...
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