Yesterday my friend Darren Davis out of Auckland introduced me to a 3-part blog series that he recently did with Andreas Lindinger out of Vienna, which looked at pedestrian zones and shared spaces across these two cities. The first post looks at the redesign of… Read More
Some of you might be aware that I’m involved with a non-profit group here in Toronto called The Laneway Project. Our mission is to transform the city’s under-utilized laneways into safe, vibrant, and people-friendly spaces – which is something that has been done with a… Read More
Last summer a development application was submitted for a 57 storey mixed-use tower on the south end of Toronto’s historic Distillery District. It’s the tower on the right hand side of the picture above. The 2 towers on the left are existing, although they’re quite… Read More
In yesterday’s post about the 3 stages of intensification, I mentioned a project in Vancouver called Union Street EcoHeritage by SHAPE Architecture. I used it as an example for sensitive low-rise intensification. Since it’s a very cool project (and most of you probably didn’t click… Read More
We all know that the Greater Toronto Area is growing and intensifying at an incredible pace. In fact, last year the region set a record with 25,571 new condominium units completed. If you listen to industry experts, such as George Carras of RealNet, they’ll tell… Read More
Retail is one of the hardest – if not the hardest – real estate category to get right. If you don’t have the right setup, the right location, and the right tenant mix, you can fail pretty easily. It’s a bit of an art. And… Read More
Monocle magazine is launching their first ever conference this spring in Lisbon and it’s dedicated to quality life in the world’s greatest cities. It’s going to take place Friday, April 17th to Saturday, April 18th, 2015. You can click the image above for a video… Read More
At the beginning of this year I wrote a post about a mobile tracking app called Moves that I had heard about through my friend Sachin Monga. He had just published a beautiful set maps showing where he physically spent his time in both Toronto… Read More
Earlier this week I wrote a post called: The pull from services to products. And in it I made mention of the fact that part of what’s driving this pull towards products is that the marginal cost of servicing additional users or customers is almost… Read More
Amy Bath needs to leave comments here on ATC more often because she has great feedback and insights. This morning she tipped me off to a brand new co-working space on the east side of Toronto called East Room. If you haven’t yet heard of… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 