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April 23, 2010 • It took 100 years but a tower in Toronto begins to rise
At the northwest corner of Yonge and Gerrard streets yesterday, excavators scooped and clawed speedily and hungrily at the soil as if making up for lost time.
» full article • Toronto • Canada

April 20, 2010 • Is this a glimpse of the future Montreal?
To developers, Montreal is a giant, incomplete jigsaw puzzle. Its their business to come up with the missing pieces: an office tower, a hospital wing, a condo complex, a concert hall, a museum.
» full article • Montreal • Canada

April 10, 2010 • Sculpting Toronto's skyline
Toronto-based architectural firm Hariri Pontarini Architects in collaboration with Great Gulf Homes unveiled the design for One Bloorā€”a mixed-use residential condominium tower at the south east corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto.
» full article • Toronto • Canada • World Architecture News

January 22, 2010 • City council ponders extra tall buildings downtown
City council is considering whether four new towers should be allowed in the city's protected downtown view corridors.
» full article • Vancouver • Canada

January 21, 2010 • Skyline by Committee
At the newly unveiled Web site Shape Vancouver 2050, users are given a digital model of the Vancouver skyline, the ability to extrude buildings upwards, and a visual gauge of the resulting effects on the city’s downtown.
» full article • Vancouver • Canada

January 15, 2010 • Skyline unlimited
A crane was assembled at the corner of Bay and Harbour streets in recent weeks, and Scott Dickson rejoiced.
» full article • Toronto • Canada

January 6, 2010 • New Condo Tower Adds Golf To High-Rise Living
Altitude Montreal is a 33 floor 120 metre tall residential tower that has had it?s apartments offered for sale off-plan just before Christmas 2009.
» full article • Montreal • Canada • SkyscraperNews

October 30, 2009 • Toronto’s Ritz-Carlton in a highrise class all its own
Mixed-use highrises often come with construction challenges atypical of one-use towers. Toronto’s 53-storey Ritz-Carlton is a prime example.
» full article • Toronto • Canada

September 7, 2009 • Torontos Cheesy Towers
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=2278
» full article • Toronto • Canada • SkyscraperNews

September 3, 2009 • Toronto Twin Skyscrapers Begin Marketing
The U Condominiums are the latest residential skyscraper scheme planned for the Canadian city of Toronto developed by the Pemberton Group and designed by Alliance.
» full article • Toronto • Canada • SkyscraperNews

August 25, 2009 • Winnipeg Set For 100m Tall Human Rights Helmet
After eight years in planning and fund raising work is finally starting on the construction of the Canadian Museum For Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada.
» full article • Winnipeg • Canada • SkyscraperNews

August 24, 2009 • Work set to resume on Vancouver highrise
Construction of an Arthur Erickson designed luxury hotel and condo project is set to resume after the developer rejigged the plans.
» full article • Vancouver • Canada • Journal of Commerce

June 10, 2009 • Building on a building
Quadrangle Architects Limited has been awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Award of Excellence for Innovation in Architecture for work on the nearly completed 130 Bloor St. West project in the heart of downtown Toronto.
» full article • Toronto • Canada • World Architecture News

June 10, 2009 • Another Tower Rises In Vancouver
Vancouver is continuing it's gradual expansion upwards with the construction of yet another tall building.
» full article • Vancouver • Canada • SkyscraperNews

May 29, 2009 • Skyscraper project underway
A construction site at the corner of Slater and O’Connor will soon be home to the largest new office construction project in downtown Ottawa in the past 25 years.
» full article • Ottawa • Canada • Metro

May 25, 2009 • Gordon Graff’s Skyfarm for Toronto
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/05/25/gordon-graffs-skyfarm-for-toronto/
» full article • Toronto • Canada • Inhabitat

May 21, 2009 • Vancouver's landmark Bentall 5 building sells for $300 million
News that the Bentall 5 building in downtown Vancouver had been sold to a German investment firm for $300 million dropped like a bombshell in the city's commercial real estate sector Wednesday morning.
» full article • Vancouver • Canada • Vancouver Sun

May 20, 2009 • Century-old Winnipeg skyscraper getting $27M makeover
The long-vacant Union Bank Tower on Main Street in downtown Winnipeg — Western Canada's first skyscraper — was given a new lease on life Wednesday.
» full article • Winnipeg • Canada • CBC

May 19, 2009 • Toronto’s Ambitious Tower Renewal Project
Much like every big city, Toronto has an aging array of Post WW-II high rise apartment buildings.
» full article • Toronto • Canada • Inhabitat

May 17, 2009 • Skyscraper window cleaners a breed apart
It takes a rare breed to hang out 70 storeys in the sky for a living – besides a head for heights, you had better like peregrines.
» full article • Toronto • Canada • Star

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