A proposal by Atria Development at 1376 Kingston Road across from the Toronto Hunt Club in southwest Scarborough has been revised. Located on the northwest corner with Cornell Avenue, to the west, north, and east of the site are similar recent mid-rise residential developments along Kingston Road that range from 6 to 9 storeys that have been built or are approved for development. Location of the…
Until just a few years ago, the eastern portion of the LCBO lands on Toronto’s waterfront was occupied by surface parking and an unkempt wedge of grass and trees, formerly traversed by a rail spur leading to an LCBO warehouse. Now, this rectangular plot of land between Queens Quay East and Lake Shore Boulevard East is a busy construction site for…
Madison Group and Westdale Properties’ new condo project The Capitol is named for a long shuttered, 1918-built theatre, a Midtown Toronto landmark that gives architectural character to its section of Yonge Street. With a mid-2021 project launch approaching, marketing is releasing details of the 14-storey, Turner Fleischer Architects and Hariri Pontarini Architects-designed building that will rise behind its heritage walls. Looking northwest to The Capitol, image courtesy of…
Almost a decade after a former Greyhound Bus facility was demolished at the northwest corner of Front and Sherbourne streets in Downtown Toronto, a pair of 26-storey condominium towers are fast rising on the site. Used as a surface parking lot in the interim, Cityzen Development Group and Fernbrook Homes’ St Lawrence Condos at 158 Front began construction in early 2018, and three years later, the architects—Alliance-designed development is moving…
Councillors balk at plans for five highrise towers hidden in province’s plan for Ontario Line transit hub; Decluttering and new façades revitalize aging commercial buildings; Poorer Toronto neighbourhoods need more places to buy Presto cards, Ontario’s Human Rights Commission says; and more news: Councillors balk at plans for five highrise towers hidden in province’s plan for Ontario Line transit hub (Toronto Star)…
About seven kilometres north of Toronto, Richmond Hill’s David Dunlap Observatory was established in 1935 for the University of Toronto. Owing to growing light pollution, the site was sold off in 2009 to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, before ownership landed with the City of Richmond Hill in 2016. In this view from Forum contributor DarkSideDenizen, the facility’s administration building…
Recent Comments