ABSTRACT
Toronto has experienced hyperactive housing growth, more specifically, a condo boom, never seen before in the history of the city. The construction cranes protruding on its horizons, and high-rise towers ascending all around, have marked Toronto as the city with the greatest high-rise construction in North America for several years running. The majority of these new constructions are residential buildings, more definitively, condominiums, and this increase is measured by the municipal government, the City of Toronto, in the number of dwelling units within each high-rise development. The establishment of these new housing structures has brought with it more city dwellers and has made Toronto a housing phenomenon that is astonishing and comparable to housing developments in other major international cities during their period of great expansion.
A high-rise building form is vertical, high in storeys, and stands free from adjacent buildings. The building appears as an autonomous object, receives light from all orientations, comprises a large number of dwelling units, stacks the highest possible number of identical or similar floor plans one above the other, and units are grouped around a central core of elevators and stairwells.
