Reminder that the design competition for the square, 19 years ago, had a central premise of cleaning the clutter out of the square. Every year that goes by when the city fails to live up to its commitments there – including seating, plantings and extended paving – the empty space is just seen...

This is just extraordinarily bad. How does anyone think that this is an acceptable way for a building to meet the street?

Can’t see any reason Redpath should be displaced, but it’s worth acknowledging that there is not a huge amount of industrial activity on this area of the port. There hasn’t been for 80 years. Nuance is required. But the decision to anchor film production in the Portlands - to create a new...

Just for reference, the financial district is absolutely in walking distance of this site, and that is the largest concentration of jobs in the country. The logic for adding housing in downtown could not be stronger.

The park. 😬

It is being stripped for parts, without the robust discussion that this should have prompted. It’s very much in keeping with what happened to Ontario Place and what the province is now doing, albeit with different motivations, to the Science Centre. Death by a thousand cuts.

Better? It has shed the Power Plant permanently. It has shed the former Fleck Dance Theatre permanently. It closed the skating rink and replaced it with a much inferior substitute. The main pedestrian bridge is broken. It has given up much, if not most, of its main building to the Science...

This ground floor is abominable. Please do better.

The province promised a temporary 50,000 to 100,000 ft.² of exhibition space. The temporary OSC space at Harbourfront right now is about 8000 ft.². There is not that much vacant space into which they can expand. While this is speculation, because everyone refuses to answer any questions, a...

Really nice work by Superkul. That is all.

If and when this dies, the city should take the opportunity to revisit planning for the site along with all of Exhibition Place. If anything gets built here, it should be a use that is active 24/7.

Clearly vapourware, but still: it would be nice if BDPQ designed a decent façade here. What is this? Overscaled windows, overscaled masonry, weird protrusions. There’s no continuity in materials, alignment, scale or detail with the courthouse next door, which is among the best and most important...

That was his grandparents house at 15 Beverly St.

Yes, that familiar Toronto planning argument: The development industry WANTS to build towers on ugly, forlorn, polluted corners of the city, because it would be inconvenient* for them to redevelop pleasant blocks that actually have things. (*Not that we asked, and not we have made it legal for...