A rezoning application submitted to the City of Toronto, if successful, could see a 1,000-condo complex built in Scarborough. Arya Corporation are seeking to build a new mixed-use development comprised of residential buildings, new public streets, and a public park at Markham and Ellesmere Roads in the city’s Woburn neighbourhood.  Looking southeast towards 1125 Markham Road, designed by Turner Fleischer…

Two decades into the redevelopment of Toronto’s disused Railway Lands, Concord Adex’s CityPlace community has been almost fully built out with residential towers, and the final phase of the long-term redevelopment is now rising above the corner of Spadina and Bremner. Marketed as Concord Canada House, the community’s final pair of towers will also be its tallest, rising to 59 and 69 storeys from…

With a continually growing population and an urban fabric, which despite our increasingly dramatic skyline remains dominated by low-rise housing stock, Toronto faces a pressing question: how can it accommodate growth sustainably? The past several years have seen the City respond by beginning to embrace so-called ‘alternative’ housing typologies within its planning framework.  Where Garden Suites fit into a wider…

This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back just over three years, for a before and after comparison of a new condo development in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. The first three phases of the revitalization have been led by private developer The Daniels Corporation working with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to build a mix of market condominiums and new rental housing. On Block 16 South…

A view of Toronto’s Sir Isaac Brock Bridge, known as the Bathurst Street Bridge, is featured in today’s Daily Photo. Shown in this view from Marc Mitanis, the 1903 steel truss bridge recently underwent a restoration that included TTC track and watermain replacements, as well as a rehabilitation of the bridge structure. Bathurst Bridge, image by Marc Mitanis Want to see…