Blonder Garners First-Annual ApartmentBuildings.com 100 Award

Blonder Garners First-Annual ApartmentBuildings.com 100 Award
News| September 26, 2025| Monte Stewart
Canada + Apartment Buildings

Naama Blonder, founder of Toronto-based Smart Density, is among the first winners of the Apartment Buildings.com 100 Awards. She was honoured in the Innovators of the Year category. Read about how she stands out among her peers in the Canadian multi-family sector.

By Amy Wolff Sorter

Naama Blonder, founder of Smart Destiny, wants to change what good housing can and should look like in a growing city like Toronto. She combines the disciplines of architecture, urban planning and urban design to offer a realistic understanding of how cities can address housing affordability and champion inclusive neighborhoods with more equitable access to housing.

Blonder’s efforts demonstrate to residents and the industry the mutually beneficial outcomes of reimagining what big cities can look like. Ideas include greater access to established public transport, shortened commutes, improved housing costs and vacancy rates, greater diversity in housing, and strengthened local economies and communities.

Her work has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Ontario Association of Architects’ Best Emerging Practice Award.

She is a board member with the Kehilla Residential Programme and serves as an Urban Design Fellow. Blonder has also been a panel member with the City of Burlington Design Review Panel and a Special Lecturer with the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture.

She received her B.Arch. from the Israel Institute of Technology and studied architecture at École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette in France.

These are some of the reasons why Naama Blonder was selected to receive ApartmentBuildings.com’s first annual AB 100 Innovator of the Year Award, which recognizes those who demonstrate creativity, skill and success in the multifamily industry.

Read about all winners of the Apartment Buildings.com 100 Awards.

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