April 2008 - Posts

Kensington Market Lofts -
29 April 08 01:05 PM | Anne Lok | 0 Comments   

Kensington Market Loft is an authentic loft that was part of George Brown Campus before they were retrofitted into condominiums. Construction completed in 2000 by Context Development. It's sited in the heart of Kensington Market popular for it's Read More...

Filed under: green alternatives, condo loft, kensington market

Architecture - A Laneway House with an Upside Down Plan.
28 April 08 12:21 PM | Anne Lok | 0 Comments   

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Filed under: modern architecture, infill housing, architecture for sale, kohn shnier, urban infill, toronto infill

Urban Neighbourhood Experience a Price Increase in a Cooling Market - Trinity Bellwoods, Leslieville
27 April 08 10:09 AM | Anne Lok | 0 Comments   

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20080425/MARKETS25 Source: Globe and Mail, TREB Read More...

Filed under: Leslieville, trinity bellwoods

Walk 'Til You Qualify: Is City Living Cheaper Than The Suburbs?
27 April 08 08:49 AM | Anne Lok | 0 Comments   

Is city living cheaper than the suburbs? Inidviduals that opt to move further away from work to the Suburbs tend to look for bigger square footage for their money, good schools, low crime, Saturday morning youth hockey, but keep the high paying jobs in Read More...

Filed under: green consumers, green alternatives, urbanism

U.S. Home Prices Dropped Most in Areas of Long Commute
27 April 08 08:34 AM | Anne Lok | 0 Comments   

Homes that are near the edge of the City appears to do better than homes that require a long commute into the City. Would the same phenomena hold for GTA in the rise and fall of house prices? Listen to the news clip http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89803663 Read More...

Filed under: infill housing, urban infill

Urban Infill Project: CUBE LOFTs
01 April 08 03:57 PM | Anne Lok | 0 Comments   

Cube loft is one of the latest proposal in multi-residential urban infill development in Little Italy. It is the resurrection of the failed N-Blox project inspired by a New York Development. The orginal N-Blox version below definitely has a cool factor Read More...

Filed under: Little Italy, urban infill, cube lofts