With another busy month of city-building, transportation, and real estate talk now behind us, we round up August 2016's hottest stories, dataBase files, and Forum threads.

Our Top Ten News Stories

1. Tory Announces Plan for 21-Acre "Rail Deck Park" Downtown

A before and after comparison of the space, image courtesy of the City of Toronto Our most popular news story from August covered the major announcement of plans to build a park over Toronto's Downtown Rail Corridor, followed by an exclusive tour of the under-construction Pioneer Village Station on the TTC's new Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension.

2. Inside the TTC's Will Alsop-Designed Pioneer Village Station

3. Dundas Subway Station Gets New Entrance If Tower Approved

4. One Bloor East: Tower Levels Coming Together at City's Tallest

5. Tunnelling Completed on Crosstown LRT at Yonge & Eglinton

6. Details of Park Hyatt Conversion Project Come to Light

7. New Rendering Offers Full View of 51-Storey Eight Cumberland

8. On The Park Evolves With Attention-Grabbing New Design

9. Demolition Underway for Yonge Sheppard Centre Expansion

10. Construction Winds Down as Yorkdale Expansion Opening Nears

Our Top Ten dataBase Files

1. INDX Condos

INDX Condos, image courtesy of Lifetime/CentreCourt

Our most popular dataBase file of the month was that of INDX Condos, now nearly complete at the intersection of Sheppard and Temperance in Toronto's Financial District. In second place, the dataBase file for Mizrahi Developments' 'The One' continues to draw in plenty of views as the supertall project by architects Foster + Partners works its way through the planning and approvals process.

2. The One

3. One Bloor East

4. Ten York

5. 1 Yorkville

6. Karma Condos

7. 1-7 Yonge (Toronto Star Lands)

8. Eight Cumberland

9. KPMG Vaughan

10. Sunday School Lofts

Our Top Ten Forum Threads

1. Ten York

Aerial view of Ten York, image by Forum contributor UrbanOptic

The ongoing installation of exterior cladding has brought the Forum thread for Ten York up to the top of the rankings, fuelled by a never-ending barrage of photo updates from street level and surrounding buildings. A recent application for Site Plan Approval has spurred new conversations in the thread for Mirvish + Gehry Toronto, making it the second most popular Forum thread of the month.

2. Mirvish + Gehry Toronto

3. Rail Deck Park

4. One Bloor East

5. Eaton Centre: Nordstrom Rebuild

6. Sun Life Financial Tower + Harbour Plaza Residences

7. Massey Tower

8. 88 Scott Street

9. FIVE Condos

10. The One