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    Mississauga Toronto | Absolute World | 169.77m | 56s | Cityzen | MAD architects

    I agree with the amazingness of the towers, and also with most of the gripes (and even more of them, since I live here). The biggest one for me in terms of appearance is the LED lighting, which is a fail. Many fixtures have been misaligned due to snow or ice or just being poorly installed, so...
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    Toronto Toronto | OVO Athletic Centre | ?m | 2s | MLSE | Baldwin & Franklin

    This site needs an And1 button.
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    Toronto Toronto | BMO Field Renovations | ?m | ?s | MLSE | Gensler

    Am I the only one thinking it's a bit odd to not have a single diagonal support for the whole upper deck? Not that we get quakes or anything, but with thousands of fans possibly moving around, even some tension cables running up to those corners would provide some lateral resistance...
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    Toronto Toronto | St Regis Toronto Hotel and Residences | 281.93m | 58s | JFC Capital | Zeidler

    The designer called Bernier "really manly"... I guess the definition of that has changed lately.
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    Spectrum Square Office Pk (Mississauga, Eglinton/Spectrum Way, HOOPP, 1.1m ft2, &co)

    Hi Tuscani. Tried to send you a reply PM but your mailbox is apparently full and rejecting anything new.
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    Mississauga Toronto | Absolute World | 169.77m | 56s | Cityzen | MAD architects

    Spectacular photo Jasonzed. I hope you don't mind that I shared that on facebook (with full credit to you). Also interesting is that you can see how Burnhamthorpe's street lighting is the newer cool white LED type, compared to the orangey sodium lighting on other major streets.
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    Erin Mills Expansion & Cineplex Junxion | 14.75m | 1s | OPB | MMC Architecture

    Will they have Jodie Foster for the grand re-opening?
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    Toronto Toronto | One Bloor East | 257.24m | 76s | Great Gulf | Hariri Pontarini

    The gap at Absolute is large enough for a beer bottle to roll through - found that out the hard way. Living on the 31st floor and finding a smashed beer bottle on your balcony makes you scratch your head, to say the least. I can only imagine being on 50 or 80 and finding the same thing -...
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    Mississauga Toronto | Absolute World | 169.77m | 56s | Cityzen | MAD architects

    More shots, though not with a great camera (my phone) and not from great angles, looking from the parking gates. Will try to get better ones from more distant angles later, or over the weekend.
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    Mississauga Toronto | Absolute World | 169.77m | 56s | Cityzen | MAD architects

    Saw this on Monday night coming home. The colors were slowly fading through some blue-teal-violet shades, water-like in a way. It almost looks internally illuminated through frosted glass, though we know that's not the case. It think it would be easily visible from downtown or across the...
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    Toronto Toronto | Southcore Financial Centre & Delta Toronto | 159.71m | 45s | GWL | KPMB

    It would have been a simple thing to backlight all those random little white panels, which would make for a very striking use of accent lighting. With addressing, they can even twinkle or animate in a subtle way, or dim to suit different times of day. I'm not saying they did this - just what...
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    Toronto Toronto | BMO Field Renovations | ?m | ?s | MLSE | Gensler

    While it would be nice to have some physical separation and do something in Kitchener, London or Windsor, the place that makes the most sense is Mississauga. It's the 6th largest city in the country, has a large corporate base, is basically smack dab in the middle of the 7+ million people in...
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    Toronto Toronto | BMO Field Renovations | ?m | ?s | MLSE | Gensler

    Simply mirroring the stacked west-side stands would increase capacity to about 28,000. Having the yellow sections as retractable seats for football would bring that back down to about 23,000 - which is too little to bother with the multi-million dollar changes. Adding either additional...
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    Mississauga Toronto | Absolute World | 169.77m | 56s | Cityzen | MAD architects

    It's actually all LED lighting, just a poor choice in color temperature. Same color as the stuff in the coves in the ground floor ceiling coves. Probably around 6500K, which is too cold/blue. Yeah, I pretty much agree. At least for now. There was a family with 4 kids in there when I went...

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