Toronto will soon be home to One Delisle — the first residential building in Canada designed by visionary architect, Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang. Jeanne Gang is known for challenging the stylistic and technical parameters of architecture. Named one of the most influential people in… Read More
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City of Toronto recommends approval of One Delisle at Yonge + St. Clair
In the fall of 2016, Lucas Manuel (Partner at Slate) and I traveled to Chicago in order to meet with Jeanne Gang and the rest of the studio. Our objective was simple: We were looking to find an architecture firm that we could partner with… Read More
Low but dense — a missing middle solution for Toronto’s neighborhoods
Alex Bozikovic (architecture critic for the Globe and Mail) is one of the most vocal proponents of more housing and more density within Toronto’s low-rise neighborhoods. Last year, he organized an international design competition where he asked firms to come up with innovative, yet sensible,… Read More
A building with a name
The minutes from One Delisle’s Design Review Panel meeting were just published. They are public and available on the City of Toronto’s website, here. The project was on the December 13, 2018 agenda. No project is ever perfect, but here are two paragraphs from the… Read More
Photography heli tour
Tonight I went a photography heli tour with @normandthegang. I took almost 500 photos, including a bunch of aerials of our development sites. And we got lucky with a pretty spectacular pink sunset. Here is a photo that I took of the CN Tower with… Read More