I don't think you need to worry - check out the roof plan provided. It has the floor count for each setback and shows that the protruding glass that you pointed out does in fact have setbacks. The two thick lines on the elevation would be where it's set back. I think the proportions of this...

I figure that I should comment on this thread considering I grew up 5 minutes (drive of course) from here. It's about time something like this happens in the area. The original plan for "uptown oakville" was to have dense tree lined streets with townhouses and midrises, as well as rives and...

Renderings make the building look much much better then they turn out in most cases - especially with glass towers. That elevation is probably most honest about the horrible design than the soon to come render will be.

So lets see... if I'm seeing this right they kept the old facades of the two side walls facing the alley? No seriously, did they actually do that? hahaha! and they've added a floor of new brick above it?! Priceless! This is the most hilarious case of facadism in the city. wow. But then they make...

^^ retail along Adelaide. The pinnacle building will also have retail along Adelaide and John as well. Also the entire block will apparently have granite sidewalks - looking forward to that. ^ It looks like they have anchors for a small sign but it would be nice if there was more.

how could you think development is a bad thing? especially when most of the buildings are going up on former parking lots. I remember when people said the lightbox would kill the King st strip and id say it's now better than ever! Development =/= bad. I know real estate, housing prices, etc etc...

It never quite hit me how tall these things are - they'll be somewhere around 200m. But lets not all be scared by that. Remember that when you're within a block of a tower it doesn't make much of a difference whether its a 30, 50 or 100 story tower. The real 'impact' it will have on Yonge is...

blue glass is better then green, and bricks are better then precast concrete, but the podium design and detailing should have been done to match Malibu better. It seems they both have rectangular boxes of the same size, but LTD's are horizontal. If they were vertical and the podium was the same...

^these days? Think post-modernism, international style, modernism, art-deco, richardsonian-romanesque, deconstructivist, brutalism, art nouveau, beaux-arts, tudor, gothic, renaissance, etc etc etc. Notice that most buildings from that era look exactly alike? This is how architecture and design...

It looks like site prep is starting, I'm not too sure though: Webcam

I hope we have all learned how NOT to design/plan an empty city block from this development. The towers by themselves are bland, but at least the roof of Success1 has something going for it. Ill wait and see for success2. But the general plan for the whole block is absolute shit. It was designed...

I see the two sides of the argument, but I have a thought. People seem to be complaining that they aren't preserving a historic building that bring character to the area, etc, etc, but the character the building brings to the area is entirely because of its facade, right? I mean, the interior...

You think tourists would rather see bland glass boxes than historic stone buildings? And you think those are ugly? I love skyscrapers too, but that area is one of the most beautiful in the city.

Thats awsome! I hope they follow Waterfrontoronto's keating channel plan. They do some exceptional work and combining those plans with a starchitect's design will bring us one hell of a development!

Thats good to hear, MetroMan, because I heard a few weeks ago from a manager that the bridge was scrapped because it went over budget. Looks like they worked something out.

I'm sorry, maybe its just me, but I cannot see green in it at all. I remember in one picture with very specific lighting conditions and photo angle (from the cn tower i think it was?) it looked very feintly green, but other then that, nothing. I've gotta say it looks great so far. The white...

Did anybody go to the design review panel today? (or was it not public?) Apparently there were presentations on parkside and bayside in EBF, the storm water facility in WDL, York Quay phase 2, and TCHC block 21+23 in WDL. Waterfrontoronto tweeted that the panel was enormously in support of the...

^I agree with you for the most part, however, one major major benefit of not concentrating all development into one area is that the neighborhood evolves more organically over time and appears to be layered with many eras of architecture. Right now we dont have alot of completely filled out...

If this proposal was just across the street I wouldn't be bothered by it at all. Too tall for the neighborhood? Look at the distillery. Thats the last place you'd think a tower would successfully fit in, and funny enough it is among the best in the city for enhancing the public realm and 'giving...

^I guess all our towers spoil me and I consider the current proposal to be a midrise. Either way it doesn't matter highrise or midrise; this will help improve the area so much!