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Delroy Curling just wants to return to the downtown Toronto apartment he has lived in for 47 years. The long-time renter was told he had to leave 11 Walmer Rd. in Toronto’s Annex neighborhood, where he was paying about $1,300 a month, three years ago for a renovation. Curling, 85, is on a fixed income. He’s now paying about $400 more monthly for a smaller unit on the same street as he waits out a project that has dragged on for years, despite all external signs of it being complete and many new tenants moving into the building. “Since the…

UNStudio recently completed an extensive renovation of a former bank headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The firm has vastly improved the aging building’s energy efficiency while rearranging its interior layout to be suitable for use as a modern office. The building, named Fellenoord 15, could no longer accommodate an expanding workforce due to an outdated interior layout that meant colleagues had to work apart from one another. Though a new building was considered, on inspection UNStudio realized that the basic structural shell itself was sound and could be retained and improved. According to the firm, carrying out a renovation produced…

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