The 2021 Hot Docs Film Festival is underway, as of today. This year, like in 2020, it’s all digital, so you can watch from the comfort of your home on your computer, or via a Smart TV app. There are about 200 films you can choose from on a vast range of subjects, and as always, UrbanToronto is previewing ones…
Recently, UrbanToronto has engaged in several conversations with representatives of Entuitive, a consulting engineering practice with, it says, “a vision of bringing together engineering and intuition to enhance building performance.” Entuitive is completing the structural design of three underground Crosstown LRT stations. Its design scope for that transit project includes below-grade stations, pedestrian and ventilation tunnels and surface structures for…
The northern edge of Toronto’s St James Town neighbourhood is now showing off a more modern look, as construction advances at Tridel’s Via Bloor development on a wedge-shaped site at Bloor and Parliament streets. Part of the area’s long-term, mixed-income revitalization, the architects—Alliance-designed complex, this market condominium project has been active since early 2018, and its 38 and 46-storey towers are now reaching their final heights. Looking east to Via…
Throughout the last year of global turmoil brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most people who commuted to offices previously have since been working remotely as a means to limit the spread of the virus. As a result, most offices are currently staffed by small crews, while businesses face continued overhead costs for the currently under-utilized space. While working environments that fostered…
This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back over nine years to early 2012, when a new mixed-use development with both a condo tower and Toronto’s 99th public library branch was under construction on the northeast corner of Bathurst Street and Fort York Boulevard. In March of that year, a view facing southeast from the Bathurst Street bridge showed below-grade forming…
Committee votes unanimously to uphold Toronto’s e-scooter ban; Why you can’t drive on this brand new $616M GTA highway; In Vancouver and Toronto, as many as 1 in 5 homeowners own more than one property; and more news: Committee votes unanimously to uphold Toronto’s e-scooter ban (Toronto Star) Luminato’s move to fall 2021 is a bad omen for a crowded Ontario reopening (Globe…
A view from Toronto’s Corktown Common is featured in today’s Daily Photo. Captured by Forum contributor globalexpress, this view faces west from the popular park towards a trio of cranes building the Foundry Park development in the West Don Lands. The topped-out Canary Commons condominium development is visible on the right, while several more projects are under construction in the background,…
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