May 6, 2013 6:45 pm | by Jonah Letovsky | Comments
This past Tuesday leaders in Toronto's urban design and development community came together at the Art Gallery of Ontario for an intimate Pug Talk entitled 'The Future of the Glass Tower?' ... read more
April 15, 2013 3:50 pm | by Jonah Letovsky | Comments
The Pug Awards, an organization that celebrates the best of Toronto planning and design, is holding a talk entitled "The Future of the Glass Tower?" on April 30, 2013 at the Art Gallery of ... read more
April 3, 2013 2:00 pm | by Devon Johnson | Comments
The Lower Don Lands are in for a major transformation in the next decade. The expansive 5.5 hectare/13.5 acre chunk of land south of the Gardiner Expressway is currently a disused post-industrial ... read more
February 6, 2013 2:30 pm | by Jack Landau | Comments
The historical relationship between Toronto and Lake Ontario has never quite amounted to a peaceful coexistence. For generations, several heavy industrial sites, including the famous Gooderham and ... read more
January 8, 2013 3:22 pm | by Kelly Gervais | Comments
Once upon a time, in 2004, there was an empty site at the intersection of two wide suburban streets in "downtown" Mississauga. Then came a vision, a plan and development. The Absolute World Towers ... read more
November 29, 2012 4:59 pm | by Dylan Giuliano | Comments
Toronto's waterfront may not yet be the most accessible or visually pleasing peice of property in the world, it continues to draw people who want to live close to the water, and this desire is ... read more
November 6, 2012 1:40 pm | by Anonymous | Comments
The L Tower has always generated a lot of interest on UrbanToronto, but focus on this project by Cityzen, Fernbrook Homes and Castlepoint Realty has been renewed ever since the tower's topping off ... read more
October 31, 2012 12:00 am | by Anonymous | Comments
Today's Photo of the Day comes from Cole Garside & Castlepoint Realty, posted to our Forum by member udo. Shot is from atop the L Tower, it overlooks a couple of ongoing ... read more
October 29, 2012 4:22 pm | by Jack Landau | Comments
As the L Tower pushes ever closer to its final height, with its unique blue cladding now covering over half of the structure, the completed building is not too hard to imagine. Last week, the ... read more
October 10, 2012 3:00 pm | by Anonymous | Comments
The L Tower looks pretty nice right about now; with cladding somewhere around the halfway point and the ceremonial topping off scheduled for later today it’s now possible to get a real idea as to ... read more
September 17, 2012 2:27 pm | by Anonymous | Comments
The bridges connecting Cityzen and Fernbrook Homes' Waterlink at Pier 27 are being installed as the development's towers reach their 14-storey height. Designed by architectsAlliance, Waterlink at ... read more
September 14, 2012 12:00 am | by Evan Manning | Comments
There is a severity to the erupting shards of Daniel Libeskind's addition to the Royal Ontario Museum that communicate a cold strength; characteristics that colour many of his other projects. The ... read more
September 6, 2012 11:19 am | by Anonymous | Comments
Earlier this summer an inside source sent UrbanToronto a provocative rendering for a proposed condominium development to be located at the intersection of Sherbourne and Selby, just south of Bloor ... read more
Few UrbanToronto Forum members were ready to heap praise on Cityzen, Fernbrook and Castlepoint's L Tower when it was first under construction — no doubt at least partially due to its ... read more
August 3, 2012 6:00 pm | by Evan Manning | Comments
The division between the waterfront lands to the east of Yonge Street and the lands to the west could not be more stark. Whereas redevelopment had largely bypassed the former, it has consumed much ... read more
A Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) arrived last week to bore the tunnel that will connect Cityzen, Fernbrook Homes and Castlepoint's L Tower and Backstage condo developments. read more
L Tower at Yonge and the Esplanade has been getting some cladding for a few weeks now. The lower 10 or so floors (not counting the lobby level) are being sheathed in white spandrel and blue glass ... read more
Waterlink at Pier 27 is making progress at the foot of Yonge Street, with all four buildings now at various levels of construction. Developed by Cityzen and Fernbrook Homes, the four towers will ... read more
June 8, 2012 12:00 am | by Evan Manning | Comments
In the midst of an extended honeymoon, the attention of architectural enthusiasts continues to be drawn to the Absolute World Condos in Mississauga City Centre. The decision of Fernbrook Homes ... read more