[Tuscani01]

gosh i can't stand blogto, they couldn't even link the application or mention who the applicant is. does anyone know where I can find the application?

Its Uniqlo, as mentioned in the article.

 

[UrbanOzz]

Its Uniqlo, as mentioned in the article.

that's not how i read it. I read it as someone applied for one above the Uniqlo. Unless Uniqlo is the applicant and will lease it out to an operator.

 

[Tuscani01]

that's not how i read it. I read it as someone applied for one above the Uniqlo. Unless Uniqlo is the applicant and will lease it out to an operator.

They will be using it to display their own ads.

 

[UrbanOzz]

They will be using it to display their own ads.

ah okay, that makes more sense. thanks.

 

[nightstreak]

Are they planning on changing the squares design and aesthetics?

A full rebuild is not planned but there has been some preliminary discussion about refreshing the square when YongeTOmorrow is built. It's not in the current plans so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

It is due for a rethink though. The stage has become overbuilt blocking the free flow of movement from Victoria to Yonge and visually encloses the square on one end. The canopy which was meant to be used as café seating has become a storage area for fencing and the TO Tix booth has been abandoned and could serve as a small café.

 

[nightstreak]

The original Eaton's exterior was a gem of late modernism, now it's a mishmash with no architectural identity. Wish I could have seen it back then in its original form.

The soaring glass greenhouse and the terraced spaces around a large stairwell made it a grandiose arrival at the Eaton Centre.

Now, it's just a hallway to go through as quickly as possible. They ruined it.

Weaving the needle to keep this relevant to Yonge-Dundas Square, the decision to reposition Eaton Centre's corner entrance was guided by the newly built Yonge-Dundas Square in the early 2000s to instead face into this hot new public space. It turns out, the square is largely empty most of the time and the vast majority of the traffic is in the scramble intersection.

If the intersection were to be rethought to merge the square into the sidewalk space around the Eaton Centre, this entrance might make more sense if it opens directly onto the square. I imagine a rebuilt greenhouse as a component of an integrated square to leverage the square as an Eaton Centre asset and the Eaton Centre as a Yonge-Dundas Square asset, in a symbiotic relationship beneficial to both.

Picture a rebuilt greenhouse lower tier with rollable barn doors facing into the square, where Cadillac Fairview could host their own events, attracting attention to themselves, rather than events having their back to the mall. The space could be used for indoor events in the winter with spillout onto the square for outdoor events.

CF absolutely ruined one of their most valuable assets and I hope that a nostalgic new leader at CF will realize the gravity of the mistake and move to correct it. The greenhouse is still largely there. Only the last tier and the small entrance were removed, while the middle tier was in fact expanded. Removing the media tower might not happen but the H&M box is unnecessary and could be removed if CF rethinks how to integrate a flagship tenant inside a rebuilt greenhouse.

 

[LUVIT!]

I worked there at that time at the 'Dundas Room' at Eaton's as a waiter while going to "Ryerson". It was a perfect job. 5:00-9:00 PM M-F (Sometimes Saturday). As a student right across the street from school! It was great.
Anybody remember the 'Dundas Room' ?

 

[Red October]

I never thought I'd get angry about the Ensh*ttification of the Eaton Centre when I opened UT today...

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

I think CF wanted to squeeze as much retail space out this mall as humanly possible and then some while aesthetics and public space was be damned and blasted in that process. /bleah

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

The soaring glass greenhouse and the terraced spaces around a large stairwell made it a grandiose arrival at the Eaton Centre.

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Now, it's just a hallway to go through as quickly as possible. They ruined it.

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Weaving the needle to keep this relevant to Yonge-Dundas Square, the decision to reposition Eaton Centre's corner entrance was guided by the newly built Yonge-Dundas Square in the early 2000s to instead face into this hot new public space. It turns out, the square is largely empty most of the time and the vast majority of the traffic is in the scramble intersection.

If the intersection were to be rethought to merge the square into the sidewalk space around the Eaton Centre, this entrance might make more sense if it opens directly onto the square. I imagine a rebuilt greenhouse as a component of an integrated square to leverage the square as an Eaton Centre asset and the Eaton Centre as a Yonge-Dundas Square asset, in a symbiotic relationship beneficial to both.

Picture a rebuilt greenhouse lower tier with rollable barn doors facing into the square, where Cadillac Fairview could host their own events, attracting attention to themselves, rather than events having their back to the mall. The space could be used for indoor events in the winter with spillout onto the square for outdoor events.

CF absolutely ruined one of their most valuable assets and I hope that a nostalgic new leader at CF will realize the gravity of the mistake and move to correct it. The greenhouse is still largely there. Only the last tier and the small entrance were removed, while the middle tier was in fact expanded. Removing the media tower might not happen but the H&M box is unnecessary and could be removed if CF rethinks how to integrate a flagship tenant inside a rebuilt greenhouse.

It has been changed for the worse.

 

[MisterF]

A full rebuild is not planned but there has been some preliminary discussion about refreshing the square when YongeTOmorrow is built. It's not in the current plans so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

It is due for a rethink though. The stage has become overbuilt blocking the free flow of movement from Victoria to Yonge and visually encloses the square on one end. The canopy which was meant to be used as café seating has become a storage area for fencing and the TO Tix booth has been abandoned and could serve as a small café.

The canopy was always misguided. Seemingly a symptom of this city's odd compulsion to isolate public squares from surrounding streets instead of opening up to them. The whole Dundas and Victoria frontages need a complete rethink. And how Dundas Square (the street) hasn't been at least partially pedestrianized by now is beyond me.

 

[CapitalSeven]

If we all just start calling it Catherine O'Hara Square, will the city perhaps change it to that? I refuse even to type the S word.

 

[nightstreak]

If we all just start calling it Catherine O'Hara Square, will the city perhaps change it to that? I refuse even to type the S word.

I kind of love that idea. I would also be very happy with John Candy Square.

Candy Square would stick