Breuer House II is currently on the market in New Canaan, Connecticut for $5.85 million. The house has 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, and 2 half bathrooms. It is 4,777 square feet and sits on 3.11 acres of land. Originally built in 1951, the house… Read More
I’ve written quite a few posts about family formation and, more specifically, about where Millennials will move once they start having kids. Many seem to believe that – despite the current Millennial love affair with urban centers – much of this cohort is destined to… Read More
I first learned about the work of Jonathan Segal back when I was in architecture school. And he was somebody I immediately admired. At the time, I was struggling to figure out where I wanted to position myself between architecture and real estate development, and… Read More
Starting today and running until the end of March, the City of Toronto, the Toronto Transit Commission, and Metrolinx will be hosting several public meetings as they work towards planning out this city and region’s rapid transit network. Below are a few of the key… Read More
Architect Bjarke Ingels will be in Toronto next week to talk about how architecture can create communities and about a new project that he is working on with developers Westbank and Allied REIT here in the city. The last time I heard Bjarke speak was when… Read More
I am a big fan of the UP Express train that runs from downtown Toronto to Pearson Airport. I love the station architecture, the branding and identity, the trains themselves (with wifi), and the local retailers they house at Union. I also happen to live… Read More
Henry Grabar has an interesting piece in the March 2016 issue of The Atlantic talking about Paris’s ambitious metro expansion. By 2030, and after $25 billion of investment, the Paris system will gain four new lines, 68 stations, and more than 120 miles (192 kilometers)… Read More
In yesterday’s post about the city as an egg, I received a comment basically saying that I use this blog to carefully curate my own image and that I would never argue against “dumb Toronto planning” because, after all, I’m a developer. I am going to… Read More
This week I have been thinking and reading about monocentric and polycentric cities. In urban real estate economics, the monocentric city model has historically been an important economic model. Developed in the 1960s, it attempts to explain land use in cities with one core, or… Read More
Zillow.com recently published some research where they looked at U.S. home prices broken down according to location: urban, suburban, and rural. Here’s what they found: As you can see, urban homes across the U.S. largely trailed their suburban counterparts in terms of absolute value up… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 