Redesigned Celestica Midrise Impresses at Design Review Panel After acquiring the entire Celestica site at the northwest corner of Eglinton and Don Mills last year, Aspen Ridge Homes has been going full steam ahead on pushing the various components of the Crosstown Community master plan (formerly Wynford Green)...
Art Shoppe Condos Reaching Final Height Above Yonge in Midtown Midtown Toronto's skyline is now one tower stronger as Art Shoppe Condos closes in on its final 28-storey-height south of the Yonge and Eglinton intersection. The 12- and 28-storey architectsAlliance-designed condominium complex...
Megaproject 'The Well' Progressing in Downtown Toronto Downtown Toronto's Front and Spadina intersection is a hive of construction activity as work progresses for a mixed-use megaproject on a 7.8 acre site. Known as The Well, the project from Diamond Corp, Allied Properties REIT, Rio Can...
Quirky Future Residential Development for Kensington Market? UrbanToronto's Forum was abuzz recently with rumours that a redevelopment in Kensington Market is in the works after a rendering was posted on a developer's website. Located at 17 St. Andrew Street, just west of Spadina, the image from Impressions...
How Bessarion Station offers lessons for avoiding 'bad planning' Few in the city have heard of Bessarion subway station, and even fewer people can pronounce it. Now, as the neighbourhood around Toronto's second-least-used subway stop is readying for major expansion, transit advocates worry decades-old decisions could...
REID: On Public Etiquette It’s not a coincidence that words for people who understand good etiquette – polite, urbane – are derived from classical words for cities (Greek polis, Latin urbs). Where once etiquette was thought of primarily as of as something that...
Multi-Tower Mixed-Use Project to Replace Lansing Square A proposal submitted to the City of Toronto seeks rezoning and an Official Plan amendment to permit a major multi-tower redevelopment of Lansing Square, a large business park at Victoria Park and Sheppard where North York meets Scarborough....
New Spaces Take Shape as Union Station Prepared for Openings Nine years into construction and commuter confusion at Union Station, the Downtown Toronto transit hub's revitalization has been overshadowed by missed deadlines, contractor woes, and a swelling price tag. Despite the negative attention though,...
