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Are there too many condos in Toronto? Real estate wiz Brian Persaud takes on this contentious issue
We're feeling like nobility just looking at these new renderings from The Royal Collection
In a very unpatriotic move, Canadians polled by Ipsos Reid on their top brands named Apple their fave, followed by Google and Ikea.
We’ve just gotta ask, where’s the timbit love guys?
We guess it’s forgivable, the survey asked 1,013 Canadian adults what the country’s most “leading edge” brand is and Tim’s, while still an early morning necessity, isn’t exactly a leading edge brand. Read more
Looks like all the booklearnin’ has really paid off!
In a “Top 10 Smartest Cities” list meticulously compiled by Boyd Cohen, an author and climate strategist, Toronto ranks at number two.
Cohen defines smart cities as cities that “use information and communication technologies (ICT) to be more intelligent and efficient in the use of resources, resulting in cost and energy savings, improved service delivery and quality of life, and reduced environmental footprint — all supporting innovation and the low-carbon economy. Wow! That’s quite the definition.
Cohen published his list on business and tech site Fast Company and after awarding Vienna the top honour of smartest city on the planet, he moved on to Toronto, the highest rated smart city in North America.
Here are his reasons for placing Toronto at number two: Read more
Well said Ashley Esqueda from Mobile Nations… The Samsung Smart Window is capable of replacing actual windows in homes and, we can only assume, tech savvy offices. It’s basically a 46-inch LCD, only it’s totally see-through and can overlay touch controlled widgets and browser and media data. Awesome! Read more
Commuting is a drag and gas prices are sky high. What are the drivers among us going to do?
Find more walkable places to live and commutes that don’t suck! At least, that’s what Walk Score CEO Josh Herst thinks is the growing trend that will only catch on with time.
For those of you not in the tech loop, Walk Score is a service that assigns a score on a scale of 1 to 100 for every address in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand based on the address’s proximity to amenities such as transit, restaurants, theatres and more! Read more
Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. That’s how it goes right?
Well we won’t get fooled again when it comes to news websites and blogs making outrageous claims about architectural wonders and exorbitantly expensive homes. It already happened a few months back…
Luckily we approached this one with a skeptical eye and it looks like another blog did too. The claim: Broad Sustainable Buildings, a privately-owned Chinese company, is planning a 200 storey vertical city that will have the capacity to house 100,000 people. Read more
Is anyone really surprised that Facebook may officially be one of the most valuable companies in the world soon? Facebook is expected to go public at some point between April and June and while the company has kept a low profile (LOL!) about its IPO, it’s widely known that Zuckerberg and co. are preparing to raise $10 billion this year which would bring their public value to $100 billion.
We found this very awesome infographic on Internet know-it-all site, Mashable. We stopped short of shamelessly re-posting it (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but we decided to toss up a couple of our favourite sections of their infographic here for your enjoyment. Read more
If you’re living in the Metro Vancouver area and don’t know about the Evergreen Line, then you must be also living under a rock.
The Lower Mainland’s climate is so temperate that year-round rock dwelling is completely feasible, but we don’t recommend it. Besides, you’re completely in the dark about this important public transit development that is sure to lead to shorter commutes, 8,000 new direct and indirect jobs during construction and a more connected Metro Vancouver. Read more
It was only a couple months ago that the Earth’s population officially hit the 7 billion mark.
That’s a lot of people inhabiting this little planet, but by 2050, the population is expected to balloon even further to 9 billion. With that type of population growth, us Earthlings are going to have to get creative with the way we live and the structures we live in.
While the ongoing densification of our urban centres is helpful, some say it’s not enough. In order to accommodate 9 billion people, some say we’ll need to get a little weird.
Welcome to the Ekinoid Project: 2012. Read more
This video showcases something a lot more exciting than grass growing, but the time lapse element is just as important. The Broad Group, a builder in China, erected this 30 storey hotel prototype in just 360 hours, that’s only half a month’s worth of work for something that sometimes takes a year. Read more
The demo of these flying robot construction workers took place in a warehouse-esque art gallery called FRAC, just outside of Paris. This is more of an art installation than viable way of constructing buildings for human use, though it is interesting nevertheless. Read more
