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2022 06 23 – MIT Technology Review: The future of urban housing

2022 06 01 – Architectural Record: Housing and Climate

2022 05 17 – Lessons from Grenfell

2022 04 22 – Metropolis Magazine

2022 04 07 – Ken Soble Tower becomes world’s largest residential Passive House retrofit

2021 10 21 – Tall Stories 276: Ken Soble Tower: Monocle Radio – The Urbanist

2021 10 01 – Ken Soble Tower Raising the Bar – Canadian Architect

2021 09 29 – Hamilton’s Ken Soble Tower retrofit sets new Passive House Standards – Daily Commercial News

2021 09 29 – The Retrofit Economy – First Policy Response

2021 09 27 – Tower Retrofits looming large, conference delegates told

2021 04 05 – A Renewable Resource: Modernizing Toronto’s Apartment Towers – Urban Land Institute

2021 03 31 – Hamilton Highrise Goes from Disrepair to “EnerPHit” for the Future – Housing Services Corporation

2021 02 26 – The Vital Need to Renew Tower Renewal – Spacing Magazine

2020 11 14 – How COVID-19 has made Canada’s underhoused and unequal communities impossible to ignore – Globe and Mail

2020 10 28 – Case study: Raising the bar on community housing retrofits –  Federation of Canadian Municipalities

2020 09 03 – Raising Expectations: The Tower Renewal Partnership retrofits Southern Ontario’s concrete high-rises for a sustainable and affordable future –  The Architect’s Newspaper

2020 08 03 – Pandemic effect: Housing Retrofits -Canadian Architect

2020 07 10 – How to Renew Our Old Apartment Buildings – Treehugger

2020 03 10 – Sealing the deal – The case for cladding leaky old highrises – Corporate Knights

2020 03 01 – Toronto ‘living on borrowed time’ with its large, aging residential towers – The Toronto Star

2019 11 15 – Sixties-era Hamilton tower gets Passive House refit – The Globe & Mail

2019 10 30 – Canadian mid-century towers can have a high-performance future – Daily Commercial News

2019 10 10 – The Ken Soble tower transformation – SAB Magazine Technical Brief

2019 05 27 – A Hamilton, Ont., public-housing tower gets a new life as a green building – The Globe & Mail

2019 05 08 – Tower refit program stunted by end of cap and trade – Daily Commercial News

2019 05 01 – Architects from Toronto inspect Pforzheim’s skyscrapers

2019 04 29 – Hamilton’s Ken Soble Tower rebirth a Passive House first

2019 04 28 – Wanted: Innovative ideas to address Canada’s affordable housing challenge

2019 04 18 – Investing in innovative housing solutions eleven solutions lab proposals receive funding through the NHS labs

2019 03 – City of Toronto’s Climate Resilience Framework and Recommendations Report

2019 02 10 – Are St. James Town highrises an early warning for city’s aging apartment buildings?

2018 05 25 -In the dead spaces between buildings, an architectural revolution – Globe and Mail

2017 08 15 – Towering ambitions – Globe and Mail

2017 08 01 – Zoning changes give new life to Toronto’s ‘apartment neighbourhoods’ – Toronto Star

2017 07 19 – How a zoning bylaw could transform 500 apartment sites across the city – CBC News

2017 07 19 – Changes coming to business and social services for apartment towers -CBC Listen

2017 07 19 – Tower’s big apartment towers could soon get major upgrades -BlogTO

2017 06 23 – Lessons of the Grenfell blaze: How can Canada’s thousands of aging towers be kept safe? – Globe and Mail

2017 06 23 – Grenfell Tower fire a warning for Toronto on housing crisis – Toronto Star 

2016 11 14 – New Visions for Social Housing -Canadian Architect

2016 10 25 – Toronto: crafting a livable city amidst staggering population shifts and growth – ULI Impact Blog

2016 08 24 – Transformative conversations about social housing – Maytree

2016 06 06 – Concrete Toronto – Globe and Mail

2015 11 21 – Integration: A New Strategy – Globe and Mail

2015 07 24 – Reinvesting in Toronto’s aging rental towers – Canadian Apartment Magazine

2015 07 23 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Metropolis Magazine

2015 06 08 – Unlocking the Potential in Toronto’s Suburban Highrises – CityLab

2015 06 03 – Why the highrise is the future for an urbanized planet – High Rise / NFB – Globe and Mail

2015 05 29 – We should recognize Canada as a nation of highrise-dwellers – Globe and Mail

2015 04 16 – Tower Neighbourhood, Tower City – Cities of Migration

2015 03 31- Toronto council endorses artistic community-cultural hub for Weston – Toronto Star

2015 03 16 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Urban Springtime

2015 02 13 – It’s time to transform the suburbs – Toronto Star

2014 11 30 – How do we cross Toronto’s great divides? – Toronto Star

2014 11 22 – Time to repopulate Canada’s arrival cities – Globe and Mail

2014 10 26 – United Way, Tower Renewal program: Overcoming the challenges of tower-block neighbourhoods – Toronto Star

2014 10 15 – How to revitalize highrise rental housing neighbourhoods – Toronto Star

2014 10 02 – Photos uncover the everyday beauty of Toronto’s post-war high-rises – Globe and Mail

2014 09 13 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Toronto Star

2014 08 17 – How Toronto is revitalizing its aging suburban residential towers – Citiscope

2014 08 05 – How can Toronto save its aging highrises? – Toronto Star

2014 07 10 – Toronto’s City Hall: An evolving icon – Monocle Film

2014 04 24 – Moving toward complete, economically diverse, and convenient communities for apartment neighbourhoods – United Way Imagine a City

2014 04 16 – Highrise Entrepreneurs – CBC Radio

2014 04 16 – Adding small businesses to Toronto’s high-rise residential towers – CBC News

2014 03 27 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Daniels Faculty

2014 03 25 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Spacing Magazine

2014 02 06 – Realize the postwar suburban vision – Toronto Star

2013 10 02 – Toronto to revitalize postwar highrises – Yonge Street Media

2013 10 02 – Roundtable Seeks to take “Sub” out of “Suburbs” – Urban Toronto

2013 09 14 – Toronto hopes to revitalize its many postwar highrises – Globe and Mail

2013 08 01 – The High Life – Canadian Architect

2013 06 11 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – School of Architecture University of Toronto – Daniels

2013 05 06 – TPug Talk Debates the Future of the Glass Tower in Toronto – Urban Toronto

2013 03 29 – We’re a nation of suburban apartment-dwellers, but afraid to admit it – Globe and Mail

2012 12 15 – Seeking a village feel for a high-rise cluster in North Toronto – Globe and Mail

2012 12 12 – Telling the Story of Tower Renewal – Torontoist

2012 10 30 – Toronto’s future is in tower neighbourhood renewal – United Way Toronto Imagine a City

2012 09 20 – Empowering suburbia’s towers – NOW Magazine

2012 06 21 – United Way invests in high-rise improvement projects – Globe and Mail

2012 06 20 – United Way invests $800,000 in tower renewal – Toronto Star

2012 04 19 – Concrete looks to shed a bad rep – Globe and Mail

2012 01 06 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Tree house Talks, Toronto Reference Library

2011 12 14 – The Cost Of Ignoring Our Aging Highrises – Torontoist

2011 12 07 – Aging apartment towers can be humanized – Globe and Mail

2011 06 18 – The TCHC could learn few things from how public housing works in Europe – Toronto Star

2011 06 07 – Reviving Fort Book – Toronto Standard

2011 04 06 – City Thinker: Graeme Stewart – Toronto Standard

2011 02 03 – Data Bank a one-stop trove of GTA, regional housing stats – Globe and Mail

2010 12 06 – The Perils, And Potential, Of Greater Toronto’s 2,000 High-rise Communities – Wellesley Institute

2010 12 06 – Highrise apartments are towering issue in Greater Golden Horseshoe – Toronto Star

2010 12 05 – Over a million living in highrises have been largely ignored – Toronto Star

2010 11 15 – The Future of Tower Renewal – Spacing

2010 11 09 – Tower Renewal a tall order for Toronto – Toronto Star

2009 06 04 – Tower Neighbourhood Renewal – Daily Commercial News

2009 05 18 – Toronto’s Ambitious Tower Renewal Project – Inhabitat.com

2009 02 25 – Tower Renewal Project – Carrot City DX

2009 02 21 – New take on highrises as towering assets – Toronto Star

2009 02 14 – To rebuild a tower, first tear down a silo – Toronto Star

2008 11 03 – Toronto mayor David Miller gives push for plan to retrofit of post-war towers – Daily Commercial News

2008 09 13 – Tower Renewal Project fits growth plan – Toronto Star

2008 07 04 -Development needs to reflect new social fabric – Globe and Mail

2007 12 17 – Concrete Reading – Torontoist

2007 10 21 – Concrete’s liberating allure – Toronto Star

2007 05 29 – Apartments ‘energy hogs’ – Toronto Star

2007 03 25 – Faulty Towers – Toronto Star