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VICE's Tamara Khandaker reports that, owing to debt and other issues, not only is Toronto's Trump Tower up for sale, its name might be changed. I'm quite good with both, especially the latter: I want Trump's name off of my city's map.

As Donald Trump continues to make his ascent in US politics, having secured enough delegates to capture the ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Konrad Yakabuski describes problems with Montréal's boom in office towers.

Last fall’s inauguration of Cadillac Fairview’s Deloitte Tower on the southwestern edge of downtown Montreal seemed like a reason to uncork the champagne, ending a 20-year drought in new office construction in what remains Canada’s second-largest ( Read more... )

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At Spacing Toronto, Chris Bateman writes, with abundant photos and illustrations, about Toronto's half-completed and cancelled skyscrapers. There's a few.

In 1914, John Eaton, the third son of retail magnate Timothy Eaton, began preparing plans for a massive expansion of his family’s empire ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Kyungji Cho examines how South Korea has become one of the major investors in American office towers, concentrating particularly in New York City and San Francisco. For all of South Korea's recent growth, the United States is still a preferred destination for investors.

South Korea’s institutional investors are putting money in debt to ( Read more... )

At Spacing Toronto, Sean Marshall writes about how Toronto City Hall and the Toronto-Dominion Centre are the two buildings which best sum up modern Toronto. That both are creatures of the modernist mid-century is likely not a coincidence.

Construction began on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist Toronto-Dominion Centre in 1964; the first tower ( Read more... )

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