Little Canada Makes a Big Impression at Yonge and Dundas | UrbanToronto

When it was first planned, 10 Dundas Street East was to be a home to new attractions for Toronto, a 10-storey entertainment behemoth across from Yonge-Dundas Square in the heart of the city. Initially to have been named ‘Metropolis,’ there were plans to build a new Canadian Music Hall of Fame inside, and at another point an indoor Disney amusement park was planned called…

BILD People’s Choice: What’s Your Favourite GTA Project? | UrbanToronto

BILD’s People’s Choice Award is back for another year with 10 developments either planned or already under construction in the Greater Toronto Area for your consideration! In October, BILD GTA, the Building Industry & Land Development association, is handing out five awards; Best New Community (Built), Best New Community (Planned or Under Development), Project of the Year Low-Rise, Project of…

Cladding Installed as Eight Forty on St Clair Nears Final Height | UrbanToronto

A stretch of Toronto’s St Clair Avenue West between Christie and Oakwood is being built out with a growing collection of mid-rise developments, with one more now joining the mix across from Hendrick Avenue, a condo development known as Eight Forty on St Clair. The eight-storey building from developer Worsley Urban Partners rose from the ashes of a former proposal originally known as Homes of St Clair West,…

News Roundup for August 10, 2021 | UrbanToronto

Affordable housing proposal near Woodbine Beach; eco project hopes to map pollinator gardens from Waterloo to Toronto; Brookfield’s new insurance venture and more news. An affordable housing proposal near Woodbine Beach calls for an 18-storey building. Some residents fear it will end up changing their neighbourhood (Toronto Star) Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory? Inside our contentious history with forced immunization…

Light Scoop | UrbanToronto

Part of York University Station features in is today’s Daily Photo. Shared by by UT Forum contributor Marcanadian, this view faces west from the concourse level towards the quarter bowl-shaped cut into the ground at the subway station’s entrance, which brings natural light into the transit facilty’s underground spaces. This station was designed by Foster + Partners and Arup Canada. Looking…