The Toronto Green Standard (TGS) is Toronto’s sustainable design requirements for new private and City-owned developments, which consist of tiers of performance measures with supporting guidelines...
Today, the Ontario government introduced the Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act that would, if passed, protect Ontario’s economy and keep workers on the job by improving...
Vancouver residents have started a petition asking the city to re-visit planning for multiplex developments in residential neighbourhoods. CBC story producer Stephanie Hungerford breaks down the...
For the first three years of my career, I mostly wrote about condominiums. From 2015 to 2017, I worked as an assistant editor at Urban Toronto, a website covering local development across the city and...
The City of Barrie is preparing a Community Design Plan (CDP) to guide the long-term transformation of Bayfield Street and surrounding areas as the city continues to grow. The Bayfield Street CDP...
The City of Mississauga has adopted its 2026 budget, prioritizing investments in infrastructure, transit, public safety and development services while keeping the city’s portion of the property tax...
As architects, designers and city builders, we spend our days thinking about the systems that make cities work: how a tree canopy cools a sidewalk; how a cycling route can be safe and continuous; how...
Too much empty space is bad for a city. Urbanism thrives on tight corners and complex juxtapositions. An airport runway is the opposite of that: a mile of nothing. How then do you turn a strip of...
Architecture schools across Canada are coming together in the 2025–2026 academic year to teach design studios around a shared goal: to end housing alienation. This Superstudio meets the challenge to...
The housing affordability crisis is top of mind for many around the world, including Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, house prices in Toronto and Montréal had an average annual increase of 6.7 per...