Three films at at the Hot Docs International Film Festival 2021 provide extraordinary looks at three very different cities. All three of these films—Rift Finfinnee about Addis Ababa’s relentless expansion, A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces about Wuhan’s relationship to the Yangtze River, and Molecules about a deserted Venice—are all observational in character, commentaries on the state of these cities today—the latter…
A stretch of aging houses—some occupied, some vacant—along Bloor Street West in Toronto’s Junction Triangle could be cleared for an 18-storey mixed-use building. Developer KingSett Capital has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application to redevelop the site with a development that would bring retail, a community centre, and over 200 dwelling units to the neighbourhood. Looking southeast towards 1425 Bloor Street…
A new Downtown Toronto condo tower is approaching completion under a different banner than when it started construction in 2017. The Gloucester on Yonge’s architects—Alliance-designed volumes now stand 18 and 44 storeys above the intersection of its two namesake streets, though you may know the project under its former branding of The Clover on Yonge, the change being the result of a…
This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back almost two decades, way back to 2002, to compare changing views facing east from Bay Street between Front and Lake Shore in Downtown Toronto. A view captured in July, 2002 showed construction underway for the Union Station Bus Terminal, occupying a stretch just south of the Dominion Public Building between Bay and Yonge streets. This…
Tall buildings are missing from Toronto’s east downtown plan. Why?; Toronto needed temporary shelters for the homeless during COVID-19. A North York hotel seemed ideal. Then the deal mysteriously fell apart; How to douse Canada’s housing mania when you can’t raise interest rates; and more news: Toronto’s real estate market remains hot but shows first signs of cooling (CBC News) Tall buildings…
Can a buyer terminate a transaction and get their deposit back if the published listing significantly overstates the size of a house? A Superior Court decision this past March addressed this question, and concluded the buyers in the case breached their contract by refusing to close — even though there was a major discrepancy between the actual and the published sizes of…
Today’s Daily Photo features a view of Toronto’s King Street East. Captured by Forum contributor ADRM, this view looks west from between Frederick and George streets, and includes the new 65 King East office tower, now topped out 18 storeys above King Street, just west of Church Street. Toronto’s King Street East, image by Forum contributor ADRM Want to see…
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