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Look out, Bloor West – SoCo is getting its own high park
A new green space will make the rail lands between Front Street and Lake Shore Boulevard East easier on the eyes – and may become a destination all its own. Designed by London’s Wilkinson Eyre for developer Ivanhoé Cambridge, an acre of elevated landscape dubbed Sky Park will connect two 48-storey towers above the rail corridor. ivanhoecambridge.com
To write about urbanism in Toronto is to live in a constant state of disappointment. It’s not that good things never happen here. It’s just that, too often, our big-ticket urban projects fail to live up to the hype. We get promised a radical new addition to the public realm—a bold initiative to reimagine civic life—and we end up with a condo complex or an outdoor mall. A starchitect gets hired to re-design our most storied museum, and he makes such a hash of things that, fifteen years later, we find ourselves paying to undo his work.
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From a sprawling family home in Oakville to a coastal-inspired retreat north of the city, we present spaces created by architects and interior designers that redefine the contemporary.
