The past month at UrbanToronto has been quite eventful. Our Twitter page has just hit over 20,000 followers, our Facebook page is approaching 4,000 fans, and the city of Toronto is growing faster ... read more
April 3, 2013 12:00 pm | by Dylan Giuliano | Comments
More and more projects are popping up in Toronto's burgeoning Midtown area. With people flocking to convienient and efficient living spaces close to work and transit, developers are squeezing in ... read more
March 26, 2013 6:25 pm | by Jack Landau | Comments
We just can’t keep our eyes off of Ïce Condominiums, Lanterra’s 57 and 67-storey, twin-tower development rising from York Street and Lake Shore Boulevard. With the 57-storey west tower approaching ... read more
March 25, 2013 1:10 pm | by Stephanie Calvet | Comments
Lanterra Developments and architectsAlliance have been collaborating with the City and a neighbourhood Working Group towards a condo proposal for 501 Yonge Street that is acceptable ... read more
March 22, 2013 3:57 pm | by Jason Allen | Comments
There are new developments in a downtown plot of land that has long been the subject of speculation. The Ontario Government has sold the site of 11 Wellesley Street West to Lanterra ... read more
February 28, 2013 3:55 pm | by Jack Landau | Comments
As the ongoing redevelopment of Regent Park transforms a neighbourhood’s status from infamous to innovative, new interest has been sparked in the abundant development opportunities found in many ... read more
February 28, 2013 2:45 pm | by Sam Larson | Comments
Although construction slows down during the winter months, the growing foothold on our skyline of Ïce Condominiums at York Centre seems to belie that fact. It is becoming clear that ... read more
February 12, 2013 4:50 pm | by Jack Landau | Comments
With several projects under construction, and even more proposals in the works, development in Downtown’s burgeoning Southcore district has heated to a boiling point. Just south of the corner of ... read more
November 30, 2012 3:30 pm | by Anonymous | Comments
High-rise development is happening all over this city, but a few major streets seem to have captured the bulk of large scale projects going on in the downtown core. One of those streets is Bay ... read more
November 21, 2012 4:41 pm | by Dylan Giuliano | Comments
As Toronto's downtown core continues to burst at the seams with the city's rush to intensify, certain projects stand out from the pack. Ice Condominiums at York Centre does just that. Breaking ... read more
November 19, 2012 3:35 pm | by Craig White | Comments
Mark Mandelbaum will tell you that Sandro Martini's Glass Memory, the fresco and glass artwork that now adorns the jewel box-like restaurant space at the north end of Burano condominiums, is the ... read more
November 16, 2012 6:00 pm | by Craig White | Comments
Lanterra's Burano condos on Bay Street—between Grenville and Grosvenor—was regularly affixed in many an UrbanToronto.ca-shutterbug's viewfinder over the course of its construction. The 50-storey ... read more
October 18, 2012 4:00 pm | by Anonymous | Comments
Adding on to what is already a jam-packed semester of informative discussions being held on GTA campuses, OCAD Univeristy has announced that they will be hosting a talk tomorrow night by the ... read more
October 12, 2012 12:00 am | by Anonymous | Comments
Today's Photo of the Day was submitted by Forum member wmedia. Last week's fog made for some great images of the city surrounded by the fall mist, and this shot looking toward the west along the ... read more
September 7, 2012 6:08 pm | by Craig White | Comments
Burano is 50 storeys of knife-edged glass and steel piercing the sky above Bay and Grosvenor Streets in Downtown Toronto. We've run enough shots of the architectsAlliance-designed Lanterra ... read more
September 7, 2012 12:00 am | by Evan Manning | Comments
When a building material is as ubiquitous as glass, it is critical that the quality of that material be excellent. The aversion of the architectural community to ornamentation has compounded this ... read more
August 22, 2012 12:00 am | by Evan Manning | Comments
The population grows, the city swells and a vertical reach begins. Pulling in all the light they can and offering as little division as possible between interior and exterior, the logic of a ... read more
As Toronto grows, so does its increasingly eclectic and fascinating trove of public art. As proposal after proposal triggers an application for rezoning, with developers typically looking to build ... read more
July 12, 2012 12:40 pm | by Evan Manning | Comments
Like so much of the revision of the city's landscape, the Ice Condos at York Centre is a product of the sustained and strong market demand for condominium units. Rising from one of the few ... read more
Lanterra is moving forward with the redevelopment of the Sutton Place Hotel on Bay Street, and have released new renderings and floorplans to reveal just what they hope to turn the old brutalist ... read more