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I write often about the need to add big new buildings in central Toronto. Why? Because privileged neighbourhoods like @HarbordVillage fight new growth relentlessly and shamelessly. 1/ #Topoli This development
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In 1960, Philip Johnson designed parts of this amazing penthouse in Toronto. But which parts? Today Shim-Sutcliffe are renovating the place, and there’s a complex dispute over the heritage. My
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The city of Toronto is doing a community meeting on its plan for Danforth Avenue tonight, and it's some incredibly backward policy. A subway, a second subway line coming, and
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“At some point we will return to work.” Yet another huge Toronto mixed-use project moving forwardhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-oxford-canadian-tire-plan-office-and-residential-complex-in-toronto-as/ Unfortunately the
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Quick visit to St Lawrence neighbourhood. Got to check in on some “heritage” buildings https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-heritage-rules-and-development-pressures-create-an-explosive-mix-in/ Credit to @_archAlliance_
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Toronto could get a huge, net-zero office building. Despite the climate and economic benefits, it's being stalled by a dispute over how it looks 1/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-a-green-skyscraper-in-toronto-why-
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This is an important local Toronto issue: city heritage planning out of control. Staff want to add nearly 900 buildings on heritage register, most of them totally ordinary, on the
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In today’s @globeandmail I introduce University Park, a proposal to create a 90-acre park by repurposing streets in central Toronto. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-rebirth-of-the-promenade-a-proposal-for-canadas-st
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Koreatown, Toronto: Victorian houses turned storefronts. 1/ One remnant shows what the block looked like before. 2/ Queen Anne fruit market. 3/ In back: you can see the bones of
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The mixed-up glory of Toronto’s Kenwood Avenue. Houses, triplexes, apartment building. 1/ Unplanned, not visually coherent, illegal under planning rules in most of the city in North America. It’s great.
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A thread of downtown Yonge Street, as part of @Toronto_Arch research. First, Second Empire: The Irish Embassy/originally the Bank of British North America . Henry Langley 1874/Burke & Horwood 1903.
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Boy, did Libeskind ever screw this one up. Welcome to your grand civic theatre/credit union branch One of the city’s great buildings, despite everything that’s been done to it The
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