With the enormous success of Expo ’67 in Montréal, a World’s Fair marked by daring modern architecture built on newly enlarged islands in the St Lawrence River, the Government of Ontario wanted to put a similar attraction on Toronto’s waterfront that spoke to the optimism of the time, with equally daring architecture on freshly built islands in the lake. Ontario Place opened just four…

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The global COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching effects in Toronto, including major impacts on the real estate and building industries. Many jobs and most events are currently suspended, postponed, or affected in other ways, though UrbanToronto is still operating at full strength with our team working remotely. As a means to keep the public in the loop about the shutdowns,…

A newly submitted SPA application to the City of Toronto is providing a look at the latest of a long line of proposals for the southwest corner of Richmond and Peter streets in the Entertainment District: a 39-storey, 374-unit, 132-metre-tall condo tower designed by BDP Quadrangle, this time for Aoyuan International, who bought the site for 70 million dollars in March,…

The University of Toronto’s Robarts Library has stood as an imposing landmark over St George and Harbord streets since 1973, its design by Mathers and Haldenby one of the city’s most recognizable examples of Brutalist architecture. Forty-eight years later, the iconic institutional building is seeing the final steps towards completion of a five-storey addition designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, a faceted glass expansion to the building’s west side known as ‘Robarts Common,’ now…

Seriously, I’m going to make a great old man! You know those nasty old curmudgeons that shake their fists at young whippersnappers as they fly by on skateboards?  I’ll be the old guy on the front porch yelling, “Slow down!”  Then I’ll go inside, read the entire newspaper, and grumble to myself at the state of the world detailed on those…

Distant wildfires have resulted in strange skies over Toronto in the past few weeks. The smoke particles in the air scatter sunlight, creating some dramatic sunsets with hazy, orange skies. A view of this phenomenon is featured in today’s Daily Photo, captured by Marc Mitanis from Islington Avenue over the Gardiner Expressway, this shot includes a faint smoke-obscured backdrop of…

Mid-rise development is redefining large stretches of The Queensway in the Toronto borough of Etobicoke. Just west of Royal York Road, one such project—Queensway Park, named for the public green space just north of it—will soon welcome residents. The nine-storey building from Urban Capital Property Group and Rosewater Developments has been making swift progress through 2021, and will welcome its first residents in the coming months….

It’s been a little over six years since Tridel and Hines broke ground on the first building of their Bayside community in Toronto’s East Bayfront area, and the 13-acre site is now primed to welcome a new wave of residents with the imminent completion of the latest building, Aquabella. The third residential building in the community features a terraced geometric design by Danish architects 3XN working with Toronto-based Kirkor Architects…