A transit-oriented development proposal in Toronto’s Brockton Village area was recently revised and resubmitted to the City. Located at 1319 Bloor Street West on the the southwest corner with St Helens Avenue, and directly adjacent the Barrie GO rail corridor, many tweaks have been made to the Hariri Pontarini Architects-designed proposal by developer KingSett Capital, with the most significant changes being a reduction in height and…

Two and a half years into the construction of the new St Lawrence Market North Building, the five-storey structure at Jarvis and Front in Downtown Toronto has progressed significantly since our last report in November. With most of the steel structure now in place for the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed building, the Buttcon Limited job for the City of Toronto is now seeing window…

The Bloor Street United Church, first constructed in 1886 on the northwest corner of Bloor and Huron streets in Downtown Toronto is soon to be reworked with the addition of Collecdev’s Cielo Condos. The high-rise redevelopment will eventually rise 29 storeys above the church, bringing 284 units and a collection of amenities and interiors designed by KPMB Architects, who are also behind the…

On Sunday afternoon, it was 14-degrees outside and I went for my first 12 KM run of 2022. To my running friends on TRB, let me say: I’m well, well behind schedule. I set an aggressive goal of 1,000 KM for this year, which would mean averaging 83.33 KM per month. I ran only 25 KM in January and only…

You don’t have to be aiming your camera at a landmark to get a great shot of Toronto; sometimes it’s just the layers of the city itself that can make for an impressive view. UrbanToronto Forum contributor Red Mars caught this look at the ever-condofying Entertainment District where century-old, masonry-clad office buildings and warehouses are the foreground to an ever-glassier backdrop….