Envy Apartment

For decades, the skyline of Toronto's Bloor and Sherbourne area has been dominated by the mostly pallid apartment towers found in the St. James Town neighbourhood . In recent years, additions like the James Cooper Mansion and 561 Sherbourne have added some height and visual variety to the area, and now another major tower is beginning to punctuate this skyline with some colour, and is soon to add a higher-end option to the rental apartment mix in the area. The Selby, from Tricon Capital, Mod Developments, and OP Trust, will rise to a height of 50 storeys. Designed by Chicago-based bKL Architecture, it is being clad in a precast concrete panels inlaid with real red brick on the surface. When we last updated The Selby's construction progress just over a month ago, work had begun on the tower’s 25th floor, while the red brick cladding had reached the 14th floor. Installation of glazing for the building’s punched windows followed a few levels behind, reaching the 9th floor ...

The meal-in-a-bottle brand is looking past the techie crowd August 17, 2017 Andrew Rosenblum Business In a drab office building on Broadway near 2nd Street downtown , Rob Rhinehart is holding forth on how Soylent, his lab-made, pro- GMO protein drink , should be considered no less natural than bread, eggs, or milk. “People think there’s a sacred or natural way of doing things, but the reality is [the food system’s] always been evolving,” he says, sitting at a coffee table while flanked by PR reps. It’s easy to imagine him making the same argument as part of the pitch that he reportedly gave tech billionaire (and Soylent user) Larry Page to land $50 million from Google Ventures in May. The money will help Soylent and its parent company, Rosa Labs, move into their new headquarters in the rapidly transforming Arts District this month. “I like to be part of what’s next,” Rhinehart says. He and his 55-person team will be settling into At Mateo, an $80 million mixed-use project with vin...