A record of Toronto's loft buildings: what each one was, who converted or built it, and how it came to be.
Each address opens to its own record: what the building was, who converted or built it, and its history.
127 buildings · A to Z

A six-storey mid-rise on Ossington, its brick and zinc front broken into stepped bays with balconies in green and yellow.

A loft building of 59 suites in charcoal brick and panelled glass on Stewart Street, off King West.

A ten-storey brick building facing Sorauren Park, stepping back twice as it rises, beside the Robert Watson Lofts.

A four-unit loft conversion of an early-twentieth-century apartment building one block from High Park, completed in 2009.

A nine-storey white and glass loft building at Portland and Stewart, the first Freed and CORE built together.

A five-storey loft building of under thirty suites on King Street East near St Lawrence Market.

An eight-storey glass and brick loft building on Lombard Street, east of Yonge.

A red brick Neo-Gothic church of 1913 with a newer four-storey block beside it, together holding about 39 lofts.

A 1919 Edwardian bread factory on Dovercourt, heritage-designated and converted to 86 hard lofts in 2007.

A small former bakery at the closed end of a short Leslieville street, divided into a handful of lofts.

A low early-twentieth-century workshop building on a residential side street west of Dufferin, cut into thirteen multi-level lofts in the mid-1980s.

A former factory near Bloor and Lansdowne converted by Plazacorp into lofts in 2003 and 2004.

Eleven lofts in a nineteenth-century brick boiler factory on Queen Street East, converted in the early 2000s.

An eleven-storey mid-rise at Brant and Adelaide West, gridded in white ribs with ornament framing its top two levels.

A concrete warehouse behind Queen Street East that the CBC used for sets, workshops and archives before it was converted to about 110 hard lofts.

A 1914 pharmaceutical warehouse on the site of Toronto's first baseball park, converted by Sorbara in 2006 with a glass penthouse on top.

A low, two-storey Parkdale factory with a layered industrial past, converted in 2003 into 24 multi-level lofts.

An 18-unit conversion of a 1917 industrial building on a laneway off Brock Avenue.

A 13-unit conversion of a former garment and uniform factory on Clinton Street in Little Italy.

A brick and glass loft building on Camden Street, built new in 1999, among the first residential buildings in King-Spadina.

A 20-storey loft tower at Queen West and Peel, with four lower loft buildings and a grocery store at street level.

A two-storey yellow-brick factory at Dundas Street East and Ontario Street, built in the 1940s for the Imperial Optical lens works and converted to 41 lofts in 2000.

A ten-storey glass and brick loft building on Charlotte Street, with two-storey suites on its upper floors.

A conversion of the former Patterson Candy Company plant at Queen and Massey, joined by a new six-storey addition.

A 1950s church hall on Claremont Street converted in 1996 into thirteen loft condominiums.

A 1930s assembly and banquet hall north of Queen Street West converted into eight hard lofts around 2000.

A 14-storey, 216-unit residential conversion of a 1987 commercial building at King and Bathurst.

A small brick former factory on a short street off Sorauren Avenue, converted into ten live-work lofts.

Three small loft buildings on King Street East and Sumach Street, registered as one condominium of 134 suites.

An eight-storey loft building at 510 King Street East with 182 suites and ten live/work lofthouses.

A six-storey building of twenty-one suites on College Street, stacked as offset dark-framed volumes over shops.

Two narrow residential slabs on Richmond West, split by a courtyard and crossed by four exterior bridges.

A low-rise complex of 58 mostly two-storey lofts on Earl Street, southeast of Jarvis and Bloor.

A mid-rise loft building with ground-floor retail between Princess Street and King Street East in Corktown.

A six-storey glass-fronted loft building on Queen Street East, angular in outline, completed in 2009.

An early purpose-built soft loft on the King West strip, where nearly every suite is stacked over two levels under exposed concrete.

A five-unit boutique condominium on Euclid Avenue, converted in 2004 from a building last used as a church.

A two-storey brick commercial building of the 1930s on a Cabbagetown residential street, converted into ten lofts and named after a newspaper that did not have its offices there.

A ten-storey L of grey glass and precast turning the corner of Adelaide and Morrison at St. Andrew's Playground.

A stepped twelve-storey building of glass and concrete on King West, wrapped around the restored Silver Plate building.

A 44-unit hard loft conversion of the former B.F. Harvey Co. bedding factory on Dundas Street West.

A ten-storey boutique condominium in King West completed around 2012, with fewer than twenty half- and full-floor suites.

A nine-storey concrete and glass loft building on Richmond West, entered through a two-storey lobby.

A ten-storey loft building at Dundas and Carlaw, built by Lamb Development beside its own Work Lofts.

The surviving warehouse of the Canada Foundry Company works, converted in 2008 into low-rise lofts arranged around a glazed interior atrium.

A post-war concrete garment factory on Carlaw, converted and doubled in height in 2008.
A 16-storey loft building on Oxley Street, behind a curtain wall of glazed panes framed in dark metal.

A glass-fronted loft building with retail at grade on the south side of Queen Street East, west of Jarvis.

The southern part of the former Riverdale Presbyterian Church at Pape and Harcourt, converted to 32 lofts while the congregation stayed in the north end of the same building.

A hard loft conversion of an early-20th-century King West harness factory, registered as a condominium in 1997.
A 15-unit low-rise condominium across from Grange Park, addressed on both Grange Avenue and Beverley Street.

A Collegiate Gothic former Presbyterian church hall and Sunday school converted into 21 lofts.

A seven-storey loft building at Roncesvalles and High Park, built around a skylit atrium.

A 1929 bottle-cap factory on Carlaw Avenue, subdivided into small work studios in the 1990s and converted to live-work condominium lofts at the turn of the 2000s.

A red brick mid-rise at College and Markham with a shop at grade, stepping down toward the houses behind.

A 65-unit conversion of the former Imperial Optical warehouse and office buildings at 80 and 90 Sherbourne.

A 1996 conversion next door to Industrial Revolution II, the first of two adjacent Richmond Street projects.

A small 1997 conversion of a 1950 Decca Records depot at Richmond and Bathurst.

A 145-unit conversion of the former George Brown College campus spanning 160 Baldwin Street and 21 Nassau Street.

A four-storey loft building taking a whole block of King West opposite Massey Harris Park, with two-level suites.

A former laneway factory between Bartlett and Gladstone north of Bloor Street West, rebuilt inside its brick shell as sixteen loft houses and flats.

A four-storey, 46-unit conversion of the former Gillette razor factory on Adelaide Street East.

A brick and glass loft building in Liberty Village, known for two-storey suites under seventeen-foot ceilings.

A ten-storey loft building of concrete, glass and steel on Adelaide West, built around a shared courtyard garden.

Twelve lofts converted from the upper two floors of a four-storey commercial building near King and Frederick.

A small early-twentieth-century factory on Macdonell Avenue converted in 1986 into six loft residences.

A mid-century Toronto Hydro storage warehouse below Casa Loma, converted by Burnac into 211 condominium lofts in 2009.

The one surviving building of the Don Brewery, an 1876-77 lager brewery off River Street, now ten three-storey lofts on a short lane.

The former head office of the Massey agricultural implement works, converted to condominium lofts in 2003.


A former Orange Order hall at College and Euclid, later a repertory cinema, converted into 18 hard lofts in 1998.

A modernist brick, steel and glass loft building of 211 suites between Adelaide Street East and King Street East.

A 79-unit conversion of a former toy factory on Noble Street, completed by Greenwin around 1989.

A narrow concrete mid-rise on John Street north of Queen, balconies stacked up a plain facade above a single entrance door.

A 16-unit 1986 conversion of the former Oxford Picture Frame factory on Markham Street.

A ten-storey concrete loft building on the west edge of Stanley Park, its balconies undulating toward the open space.

A six-unit, two-storey warehouse-style building on Manning Avenue north of Queen Street West.

A 1913 printing factory on the Carlaw industrial strip, converted to condominiums in 2010 with a new eight-storey glass tower and townhouses built behind and beside it.

A glass and steel tower on a red brick podium at Mill and Parliament, the first condominium tower in the Distillery District.

Two brick and glass buildings on Brant Street, nine storeys at the street and eleven behind, with a courtyard between.

A fifteen-unit conversion of an early-twentieth-century industrial building at Richmond and Sherbourne.

A multi-building Streetcar development around a public square at Queen Street East and Baseball Place.

A former Robert Watson candy factory on Sorauren Avenue converted in 2007, with a new residential building added behind it.

An eleven-storey loft building on Portland Street, U-shaped around a courtyard, with common areas by Yoo.

Two connected loft buildings of ten and sixteen storeys at King and Bathurst, with hedging run up the facade.

A glass and concrete loft building at Bathurst and Niagara, joined to a smaller red brick building behind it.

A 1908 ball-bearing factory facing Sorauren Park, and one of Toronto's earliest loft conversions.

A terraced tower of glass and red brick at Richmond and Sherbourne, with two-storey lofts on part of its height.

A 53-unit conversion of three adjoining nineteenth-century wholesale grocery warehouses on Front Street East.

An Anglican church of the 1910s on Jones Avenue north of Queen Street East, converted into fourteen lofts behind its brick walls and lancet windows.

A late-1980s office building at Richmond and Brant converted to residential and live-work lofts in the mid-1990s.

A former hospital power plant on a short street off Wellesley, kept with its brick smokestack and built up into a loft building of about 31 suites.

An eight-storey concrete loft building of fewer than fifty suites on Stewart Street, with two-storey plans on top.

A red brick industrial building from the 1940s on a short Cabbagetown street, converted into eleven lofts.

A loft building of about sixty-five suites on Camden Street, with rolling interior walls and terraced penthouses.

An eight-storey loft building on Queen Street East with a yellow-brick base under set-back floors of glass.

A 45-suite brick factory on Dundas East with a contested past, and the smallest building in the set by a wide margin.

A Neo-Gothic former Methodist church on Sunnyside Avenue converted into 24 loft condominiums, completed in 2008.

A seven-unit conversion of a former Christian mission hall and synagogue on Brunswick Avenue, completed in 2024.

The 1915 Butterick Publishing Company building on Wellington Street West, converted into eleven large hard lofts around 2001.

A Queen West industrial building last used by the Ce De Candy Company, converted into 121 lofts and completed in 1999.

A 12-storey L-shaped tower at Dundas and Carlaw with live/work townhomes along its east edge.

A 28-unit 2010 conversion of the former Centennial Methodist Church at Dovercourt and Bloor.

A four-storey building of 26 two-storey lofts at King and Parliament, on the site of the Derby Tavern.

A 1913 Classical Revival block by Francis S. Baker, converted to lofts in the early 2000s.

A five-storey brick and glass loft building on King West, with mezzanine suites under double-height windows.

A four-storey, 28-unit conversion of an early-twentieth-century factory at Queen and Sackville.

A 1915 King-Spadina factory building converted in the late 1990s into 34 hard lofts over six storeys.

The 1929 Tip Top Tailors factory on the waterfront, converted to 256 condominium lofts and completed in 2006.

A corrugated-box works turned toy maker turned 2008 loft conversion, and the building most people picture when they say Liberty Village.

An eight-storey loft building at Trinity Street and Eastern Avenue, on a former car dealership site.

A red brick loft building of about four storeys wrapped around the restored Farr House on Queen West.

A seven-storey loft building on Gladstone north of Queen West, in brick, terracotta, metal panel, concrete and glass.

A six-storey concrete and glass building of about two dozen floor-through suites facing Victoria Memorial Park.

A 14-unit conversion of the heritage-designated Dufferin Street Presbyterian Church, built in 1912.

A red-brick Romanesque Revival Presbyterian church with a corner tower and steep spire, converted together with its adjoining Sunday school building into 34 lofts.

A three-storey brick warehouse of 1907 on River Street, built for the Queen City Vinegar Company, carrying two added storeys of steel and glass.

An eight-storey white-clad mid-rise on Charles Street East, half a block east of Yonge, holding 131 mostly small loft suites.

A low red brick former glue factory beside the West Toronto Railpath, converted into fewer than forty post-and-beam lofts.

A neo-Gothic Anglican church of 1913 on a residential street north of Bloor Street West, converted into seventeen multi-level lofts inside its brick walls and timber trusses.

A designated 1934 industrial laboratory at King and Niagara paired with a contemporary residential addition, completed in 1998.

Two Urbancorp buildings on one courtyard off Sudbury Street: a 20-storey glass tower and a curved eight-storey mid-rise.

A five-storey Edwardian brick apartment building on Jarvis Street, one of a matched pair with 414 Jarvis next door, converted into thirty condominium lofts.

An eleven-storey live/work and commercial loft building on Carlaw Avenue just south of Dundas.

A five-storey red brick factory built for the Wrigley chewing gum company, converted in 1998 into live/work lofts.

A pale concrete and glass building near Bathurst and Niagara, read from the street by the balconies hung off its frame.

A nine-storey loft building of 35 suites on Camden Street in King-Spadina, about 30 metres tall.
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