OHBA Design Awards for 77 Charles West
Aspen Ridge Homes took home two prestigious honours (Most Outstanding High Rise Building and Most Outstanding High Rise Condo Suite) for its exclusive condominium in Toronto's Bay-Bloor area, 77 Charles West at the recent Ontario Home Builders' Associatio
The coolest residential designs of 2016
It’s time to look back at the coolest residential designs that popped up in 2016 in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and surrounding areas. What do we mean by the “coolest,” you ask? The developments on this list stood out to us, each one for its own
New Home Design and the Baby Boomer
Baby boomers have their own trends and new home builders have to be aware of them.
The finalists of the 2018 OAA Design Excellence Awards
The finalists of the 2018 OAA Design Excellence Awards have been unveiled! Presented by the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), the OAA Awards recognize the best in Ontario architecture.
Examining the architectural design of The Peak at Emerald City
Now that The Peak, the final 33-storey tower at Emerald City in North York, is launching soon, it’s the talk of the town. Elad Canada has planned and developed an extraordinary master-planned condo community at Sheppard and Don Mills, and a principal of
The Left-Brain-Right-Brain Of Condominium Design
I am continually amazed by the breadth and beauty of the condominiums we have across the Greater Toronto Area.
The Meeting House: A Brilliant Design at Fairground Lofts in Old Woodbridge Village
Wycliffe’s Fairground Lofts in Old Woodbridge Village has been tremendously successful, with purchasers of all ages snapping up the urban town lofts set around a central European-inspired landscaped courtyard. There is still an opportunity to own a brand
Yading Cliff Building: Amazing Design by ELEV
As far as natural landscapes go, Toronto doesn’t have the most interesting one. Sure, we have Lake Ontario, rivers, forested areas and such, but the land itself is pretty flat. Not like Yading Village in the Daocheng County, Sichuan Province of China,
ECHO House: Team Ontario’s Winning Design
By Penny MunozTeam Ontario’s ECHO ecological home is this year’s winner of the celebrated engineering contest at the 2013 Solar Decathlon. The home was praised for its unique capacity to bring energy efficiency and affordability together in a beautiful
Mark Cullen: Garden Design – Where to Begin
By: Mark CullenWhen I started out on the adventure of creating my ‘dream’ garden I had no idea how much I would learn through the exercise. In my enthusiasm to get to the job of planting I forgot some very important tenets of garden design that I wish
