EOY Update: Looks like it will be 3 years by the time it opens from when it started. Is it moving slow?
From TCDSB: December 2025 Progress Summary:The building is 95% complete. Commissioning and room finishing is in progress as well ascommunications and testing of equipment. Significant site work on the school property isongoing into the winter. The work on the three bordering laneways and the streetscape alongBarton is projected to be completed by spring/summer 2026.Anticipated School Opening Date: Sept 2026
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There are some nice flourishes like the playful pattern in the narrow windows, but it's dull and overly corporate facade overall. Some colour would have enlivened it. Monochromatic facades often look amazing in renderings but end up looking dull when built and very dull as they age and lose the lustre of newness.
 
This is beautiful and timeless. School buildings of any period have often been monochromatic. With the landscape in, it’s going to be the nicest building in the neighborhood.
 
AlexBozikovic said:
This is beautiful and timeless. School buildings of any period have often been monochromatic. With the landscape in, it’s going to be the nicest building in the neighborhood.
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The best public and Catholic school buildings in the kindergarten to Grade 12 range in my opinion haven't been monochromatic. I'm thinking of the likes of Lord Lansdowne Public School, Carlton Village Junior and Senior Public School, Davisville Public School, Central Technical School, and Runnymede Junior and Senior Public School (both the original building and the postwar addition).
 
AlexBozikovic said:
@junctionist you may enjoy looking through this:

https://www.newschoolexhibition.net/

The ones you mention are good buildings but there has always been a range of architectural expression.
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Good Exhibition.

As might be imagined, I lean towards the late 19th and early 20th C stylistic choices in school building over most of the modern.

I tend to find the modern examples a bit dull and spare, I particularly dislike understated entrances one could easily miss.

That said, I quite like Lord Lansdowne I think its original and has flavour.

Bellmere's roofing/ceiling choices are interest in the interiors, but don't add much from the outside.

Davisville had some interesting bits about it, but the windows I could not stand.
 
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