The Cumberland Cinema is being demolished to make room for another towering condo development. We don't know yet when it is going to happen, but we do know that this is a terrible shame: while the loss of the theatre isn’t significant from an architectural or stylistic standpoint, it’s a saddening blow to independent movie fare in the downtown core. The Cumberland is one of the only cinemas in the city to get films that......

Spotted in the north elevator of an upscale North York condo.......

According to the National Post, the Berkeley Playing Fields—the high-rise condo development that Torontoist reported on recently—is not going to happen. The report states that the $100 million project wasn’t feasible for a number of reasons, mainly that the new building would reach over the church, which is a historic building. There were also some issues with overhang above the sidewalk. The Post article implies that the City believes that any sort of new-fangled......

Destruction of the line of gorgeous 19th-century houses on the corner of Charles and St. Thomas is now fully underway, their demolition the final step to make way for the construction of The St. Thomas, a twenty-three storey condo tower. It will be the third tower at the intersection, just north of 77 Charles Street West, a sixteen-storey condo (that will necessitate demolishing Lycée Français de Toronto, a french school); and just west of......

High-rise dwellers know the challenges of living in a densely stacked box with a bunch of strangers, and have undoubtedly experienced the alarming realization that one's neighbours often behave in mysterious ways. We've heard stories of elevator flatulence, human poop in stairwells, and discarded ironing boards jamming tiny garbage chutes. As reported by passiveaggressivenotes.com, one Toronto resident has had enough with the small talk, and posted this constructive rant in their apartment building's elevator.......

The sun sets and the condos rise . As seen from Spadina and Front. Photo by Miles Storey......

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. There are good condos and there are bad condos. Toronto is being overrun by bad ones––"terrible cold chasms of......

Near Manulife Financial: Bloor East citizens would like less poo in their public spaces. With condo fever gripping the still-shabby southeast corner of Bloor and Yonge due to the future One Bloor 80-storey tower, the Bloor East Neighbourhood Association (BENA) met Wednesday night at the Rogers Centre (333 Bloor Street East) to discuss how their little stretch of street could be transformed to rival the world-class reputation of Bloor West. BENA, representing ratepayers along......

Former Torontoist contributor Ted Healey came across a great find at the Wellesley & Ontario condo and townhouse development known as "The Star of Downtown." Previously the subject of an Ugly Stick here on Torontoist, the condo's advertisements have seen plenty of scorn since they were put up. The latest addition to the front facade is thanks to someone named Defy, who has decided to give a voice to the gay urban professionals artificially......

Brad J. Lamb is not, to put it gently, universally loved. As head of his eponymous Brad J. Lamb Realty, he is a titan of Toronto's condo industry, the closest thing we have to a Trump -- right down to his new TV show that airs in February, Big City Broker. And, as titans tend to be, Lamb is a polarizing character; indeed, it seems that the only thing Lamb has in common with......

We just got sent these photos from an anonymous reader, and we thought that they were too cool to pass up. They were taken late last night from the open and unfinished (read: windy and really, really scary) roof of One St. Thomas, a 32-floor ultra-ultra-luxury condo at St. Thomas and Charles Street West that's still very much under construction. Click either photo to see it larger. Prices go well past $10,000,000 for a view......