About Toronto Tower Renewal
Toronto area contains the second largest concentration of high-rise buildings in North America. The bulk of these are aging mid century apartment towers, built throughout the City and it’s suburbs in the post-war boom. The Tower Renewal Project is an initiative to re-examine this remarkable heritage, neighbourhood histories, their current place in our city, and their future potential in a green and equitable Toronto. Key considerations for this multidisciplinary project include decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through building and site retrofit, as well as enabling ‘complete communities’ through the introduction of on-site mixed-use, community services delivery, usable open and recreation space, as well as new retail, housing and employment opportunities. More about the Tower Renewal Project can be found here. The project was initiated by the Mayor’s Office of the City of Toronto in 2007, with partners E.R.A. Architects and the University of Toronto. Tower Renewal combines several streams of on-going research related to Toronto’s modern towers, including environmental and building science research conducted at the Faculty of Architecture by professors Ted Kesik and Ivan Saleff beginning in 2002. A growing list of project collaborators currently includes:
With a focus of enabling vibrant neighbourhoods and healthy communities as well as a sustainable built environment, the Tower Renewal Project is a series of programs and initiatives which will continue to grow in the years to come…. The Tower Renewal Blog will act as a forum as the project develops. It will provide a historical and contemporary perspective of modern apartment neighbourhoods built in Toronto, the GTA and internationally, from the perspective of researchers, project partners, artists and the community. For more information on Tower Renewal please contact us. |
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