Downtown Toronto’s concentrated height peak continues to creep eastward as high-rise proposals are slowly filling up low-rise and vacant lots along the Church, Jarvis, and Sherbourne corridors. Generally regarded as a low-income area dotted with historic mansions and low-rise apartment buildings with a spattering of mid-century apartment blocks, the shoulder area east of the Yonge corridor is now subject to an increasing…

Ahead of our fall election, all of Canada’s political parties are full of ambitious housing policy pitches. Yesterday, after the Liberal Party released their long-awaited housing platform ahead of the September federal election, I appeared on BNN with host Greg Bonnell to discuss what impact the housing policies being presented by all parties could actually have on the GTA’s booming…

The Benvenuto Group’s new luxury rental apartment building a few blocks from of Eglinton subway station at the northeast corner of Redpath and Soudan avenues in Midtown Toronto now has a name: The Whitney on Redpath. Our coverage of the NEUF architect(e)s and CMV Group architects-designed building under its address at 71 Redpath has described its consistent progress towards an eventual height of 21 storeys; the…

Welcome to my blog on housing, culture, and design in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Real estate in Canada, like many places around the globe, is a multifaceted thing; it serves our basic need for shelter, provides psychological benefits like feelings of comfort and security, is an important part of our self-expression (here’s my read called: Housing As A Symbol Of Self), but also serves as…

Welcome to my blog on housing, culture, and design in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Real estate in Canada, like many places around the globe, is a multifaceted thing; it serves our basic need for shelter, provides psychological benefits like feelings of comfort and security, is an important part of our self-expression (here’s my read called: Housing As A Symbol Of Self), but also serves as…

Significant progress has been made on the construction of Cadillac Fairview’s new office tower 160 Front Street West, where the concrete elevator core for the podium is topped out, while the one for the tower continues to rise. The complex, which is replacing a long-standing surface parking lot and incorporating the heritage walls of early 1900s warehouses, will extend Toronto’s…

Toronto is more often than not a serious city, not particularly flashy, especially as it comes to new buildings; most developers of new condos and office buildings opt for a sober presence, and for such new long-lasting additions to the city, avoiding the frivolous seems like a wise move. All that means that on occasion when we do see a…