Brandon Donnelly

DECEMBER 16, 2023

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about infill housing and overall urban densities, let’s look at some basic math. The City of Toronto has an estimated population of 3,025,647 (as of June 2023) and a land area of 630 square meters. That means that its average population density is about 4,803 people per km2.

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designboom

JUNE 18, 2022

The post studioAC’s toronto dwelling ‘everden’ is a contemporary stack of traditional houses appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the impactful gabled spaces allow for a minimal material palette, creating a cost-effective solution.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The entry is flanked by an intimate living space that conceals the open floor plan at the back of the house. The project brief requested attention to function to create a home that a family could grow into while ensuring the formal response was equally considered and the space was subdued and minimal.

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Dwell

MARCH 15, 2023

There are a million design lessons to be learned from this Toronto renovation. But the most powerful may be this: Always get a second opinion.

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Deezen

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Everden house is located on a slender, rectangular lot in Toronto 's Cedarvale neighbourhood. StudioAC's Everden House in Toronto has stacked boxy forms. The home is topped with a gabled roof that alludes to the local housing stock. The shape of the gabled roof is reflected in the building's windows.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2022

Canadian studio Odami has completed the interiors of a split-level home in Toronto , using light tones that nod to the nearby beaches of Lake Ontario. The Beaches House was completed for a client living near the city's waterfront, which is lined with long stretches of sandy beaches. The split-level home is located in Toronto.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As war rages on in Ukraine, the destruction left in its wake has resulted in one of the most acute housing shortages in the world. As the war wages on and the destruction continues mounting, millions of Ukrainians remain without adequate housing — a number that continues growing.

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Archinect

MARCH 14, 2024

As the central library for the City of Toronto, and the largest public reference library in Canada, the Toronto Reference Library (TRL) houses some two million books, renowned special collections and vital community services.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jerome Markson, the 2022 RAIC Gold Medalist and modern social housing pioneer whose influence was felt widely across Canada, died in Toronto on Saturday, November 18, The Globe and Mail reported. Marie (1962), and Alexandra Park Public Housing (1965), among others. He was 94 years old.

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The Architect's Newsletter

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Housing Multitudes: Reimagining the Landscapes of Suburbia Architecture and Design Gallery John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto 1 Spadina Crescent Toronto, Ontario M5S 2J5 [.]

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2022

In the past five years, the housing market has skyrocketed, making it nearly impossible for younger generations to purchase and rent properties. Among the two Canadian cities most notorious for unaffordable housing are Toronto and its west coast counterpart, Vancouver. However, supply simply cannot keep up. .

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Archinect

OCTOBER 14, 2023

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A clearer vision is emerging for the futuristic Quayside project planned to transform a stretch of Toronto's waterfront, one that is shaping up to be one of the most architecturally-distinct pockets of development in the entire country. The master plan also aims to achieve near-zero greenhous.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Humber Residence is a new infill project in Toronto's Baby Point neighbourhood. Bordered to the west by the winding Humber River, many houses in the Baby Point area enjoy sought-after views of the river valley.

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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2024

The Symington Laneway House is a 2-storey infill residence built on a narrow 17' wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood. ft, the project is now home to the owner who formerly lived in the two-unit house at the front of the property. The bedroom and bathroom are located at rear of the house facing the yard.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Toronto -based Montgomery Sisam Architects has unveiled their design for the overhaul of the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve.

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Archinect

APRIL 1, 2022

The Toronto-based modernist is well known throughout Canada for his award-winning designs and contributions to the fields of architectural education and design theory. Markson’s social housing projects are often considered to be the basis for the development of what is now considered to be one of the most diverse cities in the world.

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Brandon Donnelly

JANUARY 23, 2024

Here is a mapping, from the University of Toronto’s School of Cities , showing the number of “closed” building permits issued in Toronto between 2013 and 2023 for both rear-yard suites (laneway houses and garden suites) and secondary suites (like basement apartments).

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Brandon Donnelly

APRIL 19, 2022

If you’ve been following the Toronto housing market and/or following any panicky resale agents/brokers on Twitter, you’ll know that things have shifted over the last few months. In fact, the Toronto Real Estate Board, in its most recent Market Watch, claims that month-over-month prices could be down by 2.6%—which

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

Toronto-based Studio AC has offered a look inside their “unapologetically” residential scheme in the Canadian city. The three-story home reads as a series of stacked boxes from the outside with echoes of traditional residential forms.

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Brandon Donnelly

MARCH 2, 2024

More specifically, we spoke about Toronto’s low-rise residential neighborhoods, which are colored yellow in the city’s Official Plan. Well, as many of you know, the city is, in fact, working to “expand housing options” in these neighhorhoods through their EHON program. Images: City of Toronto

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Toronto-based StudioAC has completed a residence east of the city, in a landscape characterized by an “intricate coastline and a bourgeoning wine-making industry.” ” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore.

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Contemporist

MARCH 19, 2024

Lanescape Architecture has completed a 2-storey laneway home for a narrow 17-foot wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighborhood.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design announces its Fall ‘23 events schedule as part of our Get Lectured preview of the public programming taking place at architecture schools this semester. ” Events begin September 21 with a discussion from Nzinga B. Mboup of WOROFILA.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

Brass ribbons line the asymmetric portals that connect the kitchen and dining room of this Toronto residence, renovated by local architecture and art studio Svima. The Portal House was designed for a couple who had wanted to refresh their home for 10 years, but have very different aesthetic tastes.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Toronto’s Quayside project is back online, almost two years after Sidewalk Labs’ plans to develop the site were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Image courtesy of Waterfront Toronto The 12-acre (4.9 Over 800 affordable housing units will be contained in the scheme, with an emphasis on family-sized units.

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This morning I toured 1151 Queen East (here in Toronto). It is a new 47-suite apartment building that is being developed by Hullmark and that was designed by Superkül (the same architects as Junction House ). This is a 6-storey rental building that, according to Urban Toronto , was first proposed in 2018.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. Located in Tiny, the Unfinished House is a 1,400-square-foot (130 square metre) two-bedroom, two-bathroom home with additional flexible spaces that double as accommodations for visitors.

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Archinect

JUNE 9, 2023

A four-bedroom home in midtown Toronto designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, Garden Circle House is a response to the client’s desire for a sustainable home inspired by nature, connected to the outdoors and awash in daylight.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) in British Columbia has selected Canadian firms DIALOG and Group2 to design and the construction companies Clark Builders and Turner to build a six-story, CAD $73 million (USD $54 million) mass timber student housing building. It will also integrate passive house building certification standards.

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Archinect

JUNE 30, 2022

Smart city technology should do things like shorten commute times, speed the construction of affordable housing, improve the efficiency of public transit, and reduce carbon emissions by making building technology more efficient and providing less polluting transportation alternatives to the car.

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The Spaces

AUGUST 17, 2023

The average selling price for a home in Toronto hit $1.12m in April 2023, but there are still exciting opportunities if you’re willing to think outside the box. Docked at 7 Brimley Road, in Boats Park Marina, the Toronto houseboat is asking $149,000 and has been fully renovated inside in a Scandi minimalist style.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has created a justice building for Toronto to display "the identity and values of a modern justice institution" while respecting nearby historical buildings. It has a rooftop garden The interior of the atrium houses a series of elevator cores clad with yellow quartz panels.

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Archinect

AUGUST 19, 2022

” “Over 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing — more than in public housing and federally subsidized rental housing combined,” the group says in their recent thought piece on The Conversation. In contrast, we see them as part of the solution to housing crises.”

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The Spaces

APRIL 26, 2024

When it came to design, architect Edward James Lennox was something of a magpie, slapping together Gothic, Romantic Revival, Queen Anne and Edwardian features to create his unique brand of buildings, including Toronto’s Old City Hall and outlandish Gilded Era mansion, Casa Loma.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2024

Dezeen School Shows: a project that proposes a new aquatics and community centre in Hamilton, Canada is included in Dezeen's latest school show by Toronto Metropolitan University. Borgo Segezia is a town in the Foggia region of Italy that was part of a new initiative to house one thousand refugees coming to the country.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Other events taking place in January include design trade shows Ambiente , CES , IDS Toronto and IMM Cologne. While Home and Sleep present interiors for the house and bedroom, Pure explores premium design. The event takes place in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building.

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