{"id":29576,"date":"2025-03-19T03:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/community-renewal-urbantoronto\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T03:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:51:41","slug":"community-renewal-urbantoronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/community-renewal-urbantoronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Renewal | UrbanToronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>The Wallace-Emerson Community Centre in Toronto&#8217;s West End is not long for this world. Not that the community near Dufferin and Dupont streets will go without; in fact a brand-new, state-of-the-art, larger community centre is under construction right now, at the base of the towers seen rising in the background. In this\u00a0image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/forum\/threads\/toronto-wallace-emerson-community-centre-park-m-3s-almadev-perkins-will.29922\/post-2208916\" target=\"_blank\">ryanbruins17<\/a>, we&#8217;re looking down the entranceway to the unique community centre, which won a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/architecture-excellence.org\/aea_award_event\/1982-nat-matsui-baer-vanstone-freeman-architects-wallace-emerson-community-centre-royal-architectural-institute-of-canada-raic-canada-council-for-the-arts-governor-generals-medals-in-arch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Governor General&#8217;s Medal in Architecture<\/a> in 1982 for its Post-Modern design. Behind it, steam catches the morning light and obscures the first two towers of the Galleria on the Park development &#8230;bringing the population growth here that has triggered the building of the expanded new community centre.<\/p>\n<p><imgx alt=\"Looking down the entranceway to the Wallace-Emerson Community Centre, Toronto\" class=\"image-display_default\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"insert-display_default-af904872-08f8-48b5-9ef2-39bf1d2c622b\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id=\"\" data-insert-class=\"image-display_default\" data-insert-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyrisecities.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/articles\/2025\/03\/58177\/58177-181185.jpg\" onclick=\"photo('https:\/\/cdn.skyrisecities.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/articles\/2025\/03\/58177\/58177-181185.jpg', true, ''); return false;\" title=\"Looking down the entranceway to the Wallace-Emerson Community Centre, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor ryanbruins17\"\/><span class=\"image-description\">Looking down the entranceway to the Wallace-Emerson Community Centre, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor ryanbruins17<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Want to see your work featured as Daily Photo? You can post in the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/forum\/forums\/photos-and-videos.9\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Photos &amp; Videos<\/a>\u00a0section of the UrbanToronto Forum, or submit your images to our\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/urbantoronto\" target=\"_blank\">UrbanToronto Flickr Pool<\/a>\u00a0for your chance to be featured on our Front Page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>UrbanToronto has a research service,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/Pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">UTPro<\/a>, that provides comprehensive data on construction projects in the Greater Golden Horseshoe \u2014 from proposal through to completion. 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