I’m Steve Fudge, and I sell real estate. Welcome to my blog on housing, culture, and design in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Today I wanted to share my love for Toronto’s Edwardian architecture and, in particular, the adaptive reuse conversion of the former Bell Telephone Company’s world headquarters (circa 1911) into 12 custom contemporary lofts in Riverdale, a…
The City of Toronto has submitted a Site Plan Approval application for a site in the Davisville Village. Not far east of the Davisville and Yonge Street intersection, the site includes the new Davisville Junior Public School and Spectrum Alternative Senior School building which opened in September, 2021. The proposed CS&P Architects-designed 3-storey recreational facility would replace part of the…
Collecdev has begun work on Cielo Condos, a 29-storey tower that will rise at the site of Bloor Street United Church (BSUC) at the northwest corner of Bloor and Huron streets in Downtown Toronto. First constructed in 1886, the church is to be part of the redevelopment, with the United Church of Canada getting a new head office space here, while the congregation…
The Ivy, a new rental tower at the northeast corner of Yonge and Gloucester streets in Downtown Toronto, has recently risen above a pair of heritage buildings that it incorporates into its base. Developed by Tricon Capital and Angel Developments, the Graziani + Corazza Architects-designed tower currently has crews working on forming the 11th of its eventual 34 storeys. The Ivy, 11 storeys into…
Mayor John Tory announced this morning that a Toronto Parking Authority parking lot located at 1117 Dundas Street West near the intersection with Ossington Avenue, will be the operating site of a new pilot program that will bring 100 new affordable rental homes to the city. This project will be the first of its kind in Toronto and will take a new climate…
CMHC says home price and sales growth to moderate but stay elevated; Sales of new homes drop in March for the first time in six months; GO buses not stopping at or departing from Union Station due to strike; and more news. GO buses not stopping at or departing from Union Station due to strike (CP24) Is Toronto’s housing market finally cooling? Experts…
Pardon my lack of zealousness here, folks. I guess part of me just felt like this post would prove to be a fool’s errand. Everybody and their mother want to talk about “blind bidding” but many of those people aren’t interested in a discussion. At least, not a two-way discussion. Many people already have their minds made up! Blind bidding has to…
Mississauga City Centre, while still very much a work in progress, already has a very eclectic mix of architecture among its dozens of buildings that means it cannot be easily dismissed. While the slice of buildings seen in this image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor drum118 include some ordinary works, there are two buildings in the background on the rise at…
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