Days 5 & 6 Toronto Program

Canada’s largest city and financial capital Toronto is seeing a skyscraper construction boom that outstrips all local precedents, and that of many comparable cities worldwide. It is now using a sensible infrastructure foundation, including the city’s subway and PATH pedestrian tunnel network, to fill in neighborhoods and corridors that had previously been underbuilt. Suburban, single-family-home bedroom districts and low-rise commercial corridors are transforming into dynamic, skyscraper-anchored mixed-use nodes with their own distinct character, while the city’s industrial lakefront continues to transition into a recreational and residential development asset. Some of the world’s most significant architecture firms have come to capitalize on the new demand for inventive, adaptive urban centers, and Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs is planning a new, eco-friendly lakefront district that will represent the latest in “smart city” technology and mass timber construction.

Participants in the Toronto Regional Program had a range of tour and session options, coordinated by the industrious CTBUH Canada Chapter. Starting with a plenary address, sessions covering developments such as The One, CIBC Square, and The Well were followed by detailed overviews of Canadian technical advances in the tall building industry. Attendees got a chance to learn about some of the new, transit-oriented nodes rising in areas such as East Harbour and Vaughan.
 

Program Hosted at Distillery District, The Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill Street, Toronto, ON M5A 3CA

The Toronto Regional City Program was hosted at the Fermenting Cellar, a landmark venue in Toronto’s beautiful Distillery District. Originally constructed in 1859, the Fermenting Cellar offers a uniquely historic experience in the heart of the city; a converted industrial space with 35-foot ceilings, heavy timber beams, and original Kingston limestone walls.
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