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brownstorey Brown + Storey Architects @brownstorey ·
16 Mar

Let's take a hint from NYC & San Francisco and make High Park car-free.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-to-make-high-park-car-free

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brownstorey Brown + Storey Architects @brownstorey ·
16 Mar

https://www.brownandstorey.com/un_avenues/

John Lorinc @JohnLorinc

#topoli Today on @spacing -- LORINC: Why aren’t Toronto’s major streets major streets? On @CityPlanTO's bid to re-boot the Avenues. http://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/03/16/lorinc-why-arent-torontos-major-streets-major-streets/ H/t @jeremy_hopkin @naama_blonder
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We're thrilled to see @cityofto's 2023 Housing Act We're thrilled to see @cityofto's 2023 Housing Action Plan recommendation to end exclusionary zoning & increase housing densities on major streets. This could be a major step toward seeing an UnAvenues pilot project as published in @spacingmagazine & today's edition of Novae Res Urbis Toronto. Thanks very much to Rahul Gupta at NRU Publishing for highlighting our work today. (Posted with permission of the publisher of NRU Publishing Inc. Original article first appeared in Novae Res Urbis Toronto, Vol. 26, No. 48, Friday, December 9 2022) . . . #housing #housingcrisis #zoning #toronto #urbandesign #architecture #missingmiddle
The Dufferin Grove Community Project was completed The Dufferin Grove Community Project was completed over twenty years ago, but the problems of Dufferin Grove Park persist—there is still no relationship between the park and its adjacent streets. Along the park’s boundary with Havelock Street is a setback steel fence that creates isolated park margins. On the park’s Dufferin Street edge is an extraordinarily narrow sidewalk, a busy, narrow causeway that passes by the park indifferently. We proposed a linear perimeter park around Dufferin Grove that could intensify and engage the park’s internal elements. This new perimeter park included a new system of entangled pathways, tree groupings, seating, water features, and a storm water management pond. Learn more about the Dufferin Grove Community Project at the link in our bio. #Nature #Parks #ParksAndRec #LandscapeDesign #LandscapeArchitecture #SpongeLandscape #SpongeCity #PollinatorGardens #Architecture #UrbanDesign #Urbanism #PlaceMaking #Toronto #TorontoArchitecture #Design #UrbanPlanning #StormWaterManagement
Yonge-Dundas Square opened to the public 20 years Yonge-Dundas Square opened to the public 20 years ago. In November 2002, residents got a sneak peak of the space before its official opening in 2003. #Toronto #UrbanDesign #Architecture #Yonge #Dundas
Where should new housing in Ontario go? In his la Where should new housing in Ontario go? In his latest article for the Globe, Alex Bozikovic writes, “The future of the province is in cities. To pave over wetlands is to head in the wrong direction.” The Un-Avenues are zones where housing intensification should happen. The "Un-Avenues" are those north-south streets like Ossington and Dufferin - those arterials that buses barrel down, those roads that were systematically widened in the early 1950’s to pack in cars, those houses stripped of porches and front yards and street trees. The widened right-of-way imposed in the 1950’s can become re-fashioned boulevards of trees, safe cycling lanes, and wide sidewalks. Learn more about our Un-Avenues research at the link in our bio. #Housing #HousingCrisis #Ontario #MissingMiddle #AffordableHousing #TorontoHousing #TorontoRealEstate #HousingMarket #Density #Sprawl #SmartDensity #Intensification
We’re excited to announce that our submission fo We’re excited to announce that our submission for the international Take Back the City design competition has been shortlisted! In the heart of #Belfast is 13-hectares of vacant, publicly-owned land. This Summer, Belfast’s Take Back the City coalition announced an architecture and urban design competition to generate sustainable, high-density housing solutions for this site. 🏡 Our submission, “Boundaries in the Making,” transforms this abandoned space into a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly community of garden courtyard apartments. With a large degree of interconnection between multi-family units and a close-knit relationship to the ravine topography, this community represents a new model for collective living and shared outdoor space in Belfast. 🌳🚲 View our design at takebackthecity.ie/ (link in bio!) . . #GardenCourtyard #CoopHousing #SocialHousing #HousingCrisis #Belfast #NorthernIreland #TakeBackTheCity #SustainableDesign #SolarEnergy #CommunityBatteries #Architecture #UrbanDesign
New mid-rise condo going up right on the West Toro New mid-rise condo going up right on the West Toronto Railpath. 🏗 Great to see more intensification of a formerly ignored railway/industrial zone! #Junction #JunctionTriangle #DundasWest #WestEndToronto #Architecture #Condos #Midrise #Urbanism #WestTorontoRailpath #UrbanDesign #TorontoRealEstate #UrbanIntensification
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