6+ hour, 28+ min ago  (857+ words) Urban Toronto Plans for one of Toronto's oldest Canadian Tire locations would bring a redesigned mixed-use condominium development to 835 Yonge Street in Yorkville. Designed by Adamson Associates Architects for CT REIT, the development arm of the Canadian Tire Corporation, the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (190+ words) Urban Toronto When Urban Toronto last checked in on Hamilton's The Design District 41 in October, 2023, Emblem Developments had recently broken ground on the ambitious three-tower project at an August, 2023 ceremony. Designed by Arcadis, the development is transforming a former surface…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (313+ words) Julian Mirabelli (JM): I'd like to start at the very beginning; the naturalization of the Don River created this new island, an initial precinct plan was put in place, and then you were given this almost blank slate to work…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (363+ words) Rising 9m above the south lawn of Sherbourne Common and spanning 14m across, the stainless steel sculpture takes the form of a deliberately incomplete arch with one end suspended above the ground. Visitors are invited to touch the unfinished edge, activating sensors…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (789+ words) Urban Toronto A redevelopment framework for Ookwemin Minising has secured Toronto City Council approval, advancing updated Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments alongside a revised Precinct Plan for the emerging Port Lands island community formerly known as Villiers Island. Planned…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (447+ words) Urban Toronto The heritage restoration at the foot of Burke Condominiums has now been unwrapped. Designed by Arcadis for Concert Properties, with heritage restoration overseen by ERA Architects, the 53-storey mixed-use tower at the northeast corner of Sherbourne and Howard…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (455+ words) Urban Toronto Demolition is now well underway at the former Mc Laughlin Planetarium on the University of Toronto's St George campus, where the long-vacant Modernist structure at 90 Queen's Park Crescent is being removed to make way for the new Centre…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (277+ words) Urban Toronto Toronto's Financial District is defined by more than just height. The headquarters of Canada's largest banks collectively trace the architectural evolution of Downtown over the last six decades, from the minimalist black steel-and-glass forms of the International Style…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (756+ words) Urban Toronto A revised vision for one of Toronto's largest redevelopment sites is advancing in North York, as updated plans for the Downsview West District portion of the former Downsview Airport Lands refine a massive mixed-use community surrounding Downsview Park…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (675+ words) Urban Toronto Today is Mc Donald's Mc Happy Day, the company's annual nationwide fundraising campaign supporting Ronald Mc Donald House Charities and family support programs across Canada, and coinciding with that, updated plans were recently filed for the major expansion…...