Throughout April UrbanToronto is featuring a special State of Environment editorial series to explore critical sustainability issues across our region.

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The Toronto Green Standa...

A long-percolating redevelopment of the southwest corner of Adelaide Street West and Charlotte Street in Toronto’s Fashion District is advancing with a new direction. Designed by WZMH Architects for

A proposal for mid-rise mass timber residential rental building has taken shape for 1280 through 1286 College Street in Toronto’s Dufferin Grove area. The 8-storey building planned for the northeast corner of College Street and Lansdowne Aven...

Mattamy Homes CEO says pivot to prefab 6-storey housing will help them through market downturn; Toronto to convert all streetlights in city to LED lighting by 2035, officials say; Ontario regulator cracking down on ‘unlicensed activity, fraudulent behaviour’ by mortgage brokers; and other news.

Artists' Alley, a recently completed complex between Simcoe and St Patrick streets south of Dundas, creates a new urban canyon, a tributary offshoot of the University Avenue canyon. Artists' Alley's intersecting volumes makes for one of the more jagged sky views in Toronto, drawing eyes up to the mini-skyline its new towers create.