The Midtown in Focus plan, unanimously passed by Toronto City Council in 2018, has been languishing, ignored, on Minister Steve Clark’s desk for six months. The Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood is bursting at the seams and if the plan is not approved by June 6 the community will be beyond a breaking point. Continue reading
Ryerson University’s new Student Learning Centre is architecturally innovative in a sea of bland new construction. More importantly, it’s an effective instructional space, especially for students learning how to solve big-city problems. Continue reading
Look to the skyline and see the cranes towering and swinging back and forth as if speaking to each other as they pass. They arrive in pairs or small groups, some are solitary. Who summoned them? Is there a plan? When they disappear from the skyline, what will they leave behind? Will we remember what … Continue reading
Vincenzo Pietropaolo, a Toronto-based photographer, author and former city planner gave the Annual Leo Srole Urban Studies Lecture at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York on April 19, 2012. Here’s what he said. Continue reading
Construction workers below grade at a site on Yonge St north of Dundas as they begin the tower. Continue reading
THE DEMISE OF A LOCAL LANDMARK
History and reminiscences by Debbie Nyman, Larry Swartz and Elizabeth Cinello. Photos by Elizabeth Cinello. Continue reading
Condo construction downtown seems an overnight transformation of our city. Meanwhile the speed at which the city moves to direct and control growth seems glacial. What can chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat do? Continue reading
Birds are flocking to the environmentally green construction on Rosemount Avenue in the St. Clair Avenue West neighbourhood. Designed by Toronto artist and sculptor Alex Moyle, you’ll find it on the grassy knoll behind Oakwood Collegiate near the school’s worm-friendly field. It sits on a three-meter-high stand and reaches a height of six meters. The well-treed enclave is an ideal location … Continue reading
This new way of living after many years in a house has been both challenging and exciting. The whole downsizing enterprise was unquestionably tedious, sad but ultimately… Continue reading
“I drove past five cranes and three excavations, a huge hole in the ground, just empty space, four streets reduced to one lane of traffic, four closed sidewalks… and that was just today on my way downtown.”
Everywhere you look, this is what you see. Continue reading
Lots of great stuff out there.
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