Toronto Star

No one ever moved to Regent Park expecting fabulous architecture, but that's about to change. The winning proposal in the competition to remake the 50-year-old public housing community, unveiled Friday night, is an elegant glass and brick tower that wouldn't look out of place in Toronto's most exclusive neighbourhoods. Designed by architectsAlliance, the scheme was chosen by an expert jury from four short-listed submissions, any one of which would have been the best thing that ever happened in this troubled part of town. From the start, the rebuilding process has been one of the most enlightened ever undertaken in Toronto. The fact the competition was held at all indicates that the "owners" of Regent Park, the Toronto Community Housing Corp., were committed to a new way of doing things.