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Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Finding the site - a large 50by-135-foot lot with a stately Victorian home and a rear laneway - [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead With the global community hunkered down in Glasgow at COP26 and the timelines for confronting climate change growing [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead To even the most jaded observers, it seemed like an auspicious development in the long and mostly unproductive [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Earlier this month, Deirdre Norman, a pick-up hockey enthusiast who organizes both co-ed and women's shinny games in west-end Toronto, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead It's a troubling question that has been echoing through the condo towers in Canada's largest cities for the past two [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Before the City of Kingston last updated its official plan, a Toronto planning consultant had recommended appending midrise design guidelines [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Earlier this month, the Toronto-based developer Hullmark cut the ribbon on a modest 45-unit mid-rise project in Leslieville, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Lead Toronto-based journalist who covers sustainable building issues for The Globe and Mail and Corporate Knights When Justin Trudeau unveiled the federal government's plan to offer $5,000 [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead National: CMHC Green Home (partial refund on mortgage insurance for green retrofits, up to 25 per cent of premium) Natural [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead In the rush to renovate, landscape and generally make homes more conducive to, well, being at home, owners [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead When Ryerson University landscape planner Nina-Marie Lister found herself on the receiving end of a bylaw infraction citation last year [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Mr. Cubitt's team was able to manage costs by sourcing readily available materials and, for the latest project, was able [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Lead At a conference in Portland in 2019, planners, contractors and architects put their heads together to develop new ideas and typologies for accessory dwelling units, which [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead With Toronto's 2018 laneway rental housing program finally generating new projects in older parts of the core, city [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead When Toronto interior designer Andrea Kantelberg began pitching developers on a 'healthy' condo concept about five years ago, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Early in the new year, the Hamilton YWCA will open a 50unit affordable housing complex fitted out with [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead One reason passive house design has been slower to catch on in North America has to do with access to [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Though hardly commonplace, it's a phrase that has started to appear with increasing regularity in real estate listings [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Lead Laurent Levesque founded Utile, a student housing co-op development non-profit, in 2012 when he was still a planning undergrad at the Université du Quèbec à Montreal [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead After the pandemic struck in March, a few residents of the Norris Crescent Co-op lost their jobs and [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Lead The 'myth' of prefab buildings, LGA partner Danny Bartman says, is that such structures can be essentially snapped together. That [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Compared with the normally sluggish pace of most construction projects, the development of two new City of Toronto [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Lead In 2018, Indwell, a Hamiltonbased social housing non-profit, opened the Parkdale Landing project, its 12th building in Southern Ontario. The [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead In 2015, when artist Dana Boettger was 'renovicted' out of the apartment in the midtown Toronto fourplex she'd [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Park Property Management is one of those Toronto landlords that no one's ever heard of, but whose holdings [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Lead With fast-turnover condo projects attracting the bulk of development investment in recent decades, the ULI Toronto advisory panel sought to [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead After Gal Reuveni bought a home on Manning Avenue in 2018, he figured he would complete some renovations [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TORONTO -- Lead On a recent Sunday morning, Tory Crowder and Shawn Thomas's home in Toronto's Etobicoke area looked and sounded a great deal like, well, a [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead One weekday afternoon in July, Jane Auster and Andy Gort picked their way through the side streets of a neighbourhood [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead It's one of Toronto's most tangled land-use headaches. With 600 properties comprising more than 2,000 hectares, the Toronto [...]

Byline: John Lorinc, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead In a graceful Annex walk-up named after a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, residents over the past two [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- When Mazyar Mortazavi, CEO of TAS Design Build, decided to re-develop the old Shriner's temple on Keele Street, south [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Almost a decade after Toronto Community Housing Corp. announced that the Daniels Corp. would be its developer partner for [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, ALEX BOZIKOVIC In September, 1994, Toronto council was poised to approve a massive development proposal that would put thousands of apartments onto a tract of industrial land [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail When Jessica Dixon first heard about a 58-hectare quarry proposed for a patch of bush near Skeleton Lake and her farm, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- For all the months they've spent fixating on interior features such as doors, closet sizes and the location of [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail As with most custom residential projects these days, Tory Crowder and Shawn Thomas wanted an open-concept home. Consequently, the main-floor design [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail In a city that's growing up, literally, the (typically) small matter of the apartment balcony has become - perhaps unsurprisingly - [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail On a recent hot day, Robert Mays, a landscape architect with Toronto's transportation services division, stood next to a newly replanted [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail On a nice day in April, Elena Yunusov brought her two young children - a three-yearold and an infant - to [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail 'Lovely day we're having today,' says a baseball-cap wearing contractor with a chuckle, his arm slung out the passenger window. He [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail On a recent sunny weekend afternoon, dog walkers, a few children and even the occasional automobile meandered along Bill Cameron Lane, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TRANSIT The giant U.S. consulting firm hired to build the troubled Presto fare-card system had a history of problems delivering multimillion-dollar [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC CITY PLANNING In the constellation of Toronto's public spaces, the string of forlorn parkettes extending along the midtown rail corridor have long had a decidedly back-of-beyond feel [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail REDEVELOPMENT Mount Dennis, the scrappy working-class neighbourhood in Toronto's west end, has never been a looker. But it was functional: It [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TRANSPORTATION Toronto's leaders have not persuaded the public of the need for more spending on transit to break through the region's growing gridlock. Surveys from the province's [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC BIKE SAFETY As all children and many adults know, there's something deeply enticing about playing on the road. But a growing number of international cities have leveraged [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TRANSIT TTC chair Karen Stintz and Mayor Rob Ford appear to be headed for a collision over the issue of whether [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail SUBWAYS Senior City of Toronto officials warned the mayor's transit czar Gordon Chong that a much-touted revenue tool meant to help [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC and SIRI AGRELL CITY LIFE When Rollin Stanley worked for the City of Toronto, he often joked that he didn't 'do suburbs.' Last month, shortly after he [...]