Building Toronto's Skyline with Nick Ainis
Building Toronto's Skyline traces the evolution of the city's iconic residential towers from their humble beginnings in the late 19th century to the modern, high-rise buildings of today. The podcast explores the current state of Toronto's Condominium industry from unique construction perspective, through engaging and entertaining podcast interviews with the many stakeholders in the industry! We explore issues like housing affordability, innovation, technology, sustainability and of course everyday construction issues!
Episodes
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis speaks with Member of Parliament Jennifer McKelvie who is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure.
Nick and Jennifer discuss the Liberal housing plan that promises to create Build Canada Homes (BCH) to get the federal government back into the business of home building, by:
- acting as a developer to build affordable housing at scale, in...
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Adrian Dyer, Chief Design Officer at Design for Happiness, about his architectural journey that took him from London, Ontario, to London, England, and back again.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Les Klein, a Principal and co-founder of Quadrangle Architects in Toronto. He is committed to the idea that urban design, city building, and architectural excellence all play vital roles in enhancing the quality of community life.
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis speaks with Brian Dorr, the founder of Dorr Capital, a commercial real estate financing company. Facilitating over $3 Billion dollars in loan servicing, Dorr Capital provides viable borrowing solutions for the purchase of land to fuel much needed new home construction in Ontario.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Andrew Adams about Homefield Communities, a leading developer, owner and manager of accessibly priced communities across Canada that feature bright, modern homes using the highest quality materials and craftsmanship.
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Craig Slama and Ana Zavyalova from Jablonsky, Ast and Partners, a leading structural engineering consulting firm. Jablonsky, Ast and Partners is helping to build SkyTower at Pinnacle One Yonge, a project that will consist of six skyscrapers ranging in height from 22 to 106 stories tall. When completed, SkyTower will be Canada's tallest residential building...
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick chats with Adam Morris from Sajcan, the design partner trusted by GCs, CMs, offsite builders, and developers across North America.From concept design to BIM, permits, shop drawings, CNC files, and marketing visuals — their 30+ person team works 24/7 under North American oversight to deliver faster, smarter, and more cost-effective projects.Whether you’re adapting CMHC pre-appr...
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with architect Bob Murphy from Murphy Partners Seniors Housing Architects about their work with seniors apartments, retirement, and long term care design. We also learn about Bob's passion for aviation and his restored Tiger Moth, C-GNGS that he still flies to this day.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Architect, Urban Designer and Urban Planner Naama Blonder about her bold vision to change what good housing can and should look like in a growing city like Toronto. Naama is the co-founder of Smart Density, an Architecture and Urban Planning firm for forward-thinking developers and creative municipalities.
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with esteemed Architect Veronica Madonna about her career in architecture, starting Studio VMA Inc., her innovative approach to designing highly sustainable buildings and being a woman in a male-dominated industry.
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis gets the condominium market #realtalk from Mark Cohen, founding partner at The Condo Store.
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Norm Li about how he's adapted to a frozen condo market and tough decisions he's had to make.
On this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Tim Kocur, Executive Director at The Waterfront BIA, about how they're turning Toronto's waterfront into a tourist attraction for people around the world.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Toronto city counsellor Brad Bradford about what needs to be done to solve Toronto's housing crisis.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis speaks with Jack Mesley, the president of the Ontario Erector's Association. He was one of the people wearing a yellow hat, who helped build the CN Tower 50 years ago. Jack shares his memories of the time and his thoughts about this iconic tower and the vision that made it a reality.
In this episode of Building Toronto’s Skyline, Nick Ainis speaks with Adam Settino and Tom Dell'Erario from OpenSpace.
OpenSpace uses Spatial AI technology to deliver products that are the fastest and easiest in the industry. With OpenSpace, builders document their projects, answer questions quickly, and solve problems by communicating in the simplest, most transparent form—images.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skylline, Nick Ainis and Toronto Mike speak with Anson Kwok, VP, Sales & Marketing at Pinnacle International Realty Group, about SkyTower at Pinnacle One Yonge, the tallest skyscraper in Canada.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis and Toronto Mike discuss Nick's new book Battle of the Skyscrapers and tease the upcoming episode with Pinnacle International about One Yonge with an informative history of the skyscraper.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis chats with Rod Rowbotham President, Principal Architect at onespace unlimited inc. about the current state of the condo industry and what he's learned along the way.
In this episode of Building Toronto's Skyline, Nick Ainis and Toronto Mike speak with Stephen Velasco, the creator of Future Model Toronto — a 3D visualization platform that enables developers, architects, urban planners, real estate advisors, local authorities and their communities to understand the impacts of proposals in context with future development.
Nick, Mike and Stephen take a look into the future at https://www.stephe...
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