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M-City Turns Heads West

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Mississauga’s curvaceous Absolute World towers were just the beginning of a sprawling city’s rise.

The next phase of its makeover is a mega-project that will transform 15 acres into a mixed-use community of condos, retail and parkland. Owned by Rogers Real Estate Development, the 10-tower project will be anchored by a 60-storey skyscraper designed by CORE Architects. The striking landmark’s seven floor plates skew in various directions, adding a twisty landmark to a shape-shifting city.

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The Bentway’s playful installation of 50 trees in shopping carts shines a light on climate resilience and green equity

In a city grappling with rising temperatures, accelerated development and increasing inequity in green space accessibility, Moving Forest arrives not as a solution, but as an invitation to rethink our relationship with nature. Designed by NL Architects as a part of The Bentway’s Sun/Shade exhibition, this outlandish yet purposeful installation transforms a fleet of 50 shopping carts into mobile vessels for native trees—red maples, silver maples, sugar maples and autumn blaze—that roll through some of Toronto’s most sun-scorched plazas, creating impromptu oases of shade and community.

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