Nope, sorry. You either want towers everywhere on every single lot or you are an anti-density elitist and you are simply wrong. (Sarcasm in case anyone was wondering.) At this point, YIMBY's are as reactionary and cringe as NIMBY's in this city.

Anyone with "urban designers" in their name should be doing better than this.

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Yes, we hear you loud and clear, ProjectEnd. You have been heard and acknowledged.

I agree with ProjectEnd that Pro Winko is a curious operation and I'm not sure how serious they are. That said, I would imagine these are planned to be rentals. The rental development strategy is a whole other ballgame than condo development, which is what most of us in Toronto have been...

Oh I'm all too familiar. I contend with them on a regular basis in my design work. They've also trained and conditioned developers to now mindlessly follow them and tune their pro-formas to huge podiums that fill the lot and result in deep floorplates that create shitty, dark units. That said...

I guess they didn't want to spec anodized panels and so we've ended up with a dull colour of window wall that isn't bright or dynamic. Those built-out "fin" features on the balconies are also really curious, especially the vents on them. The project would look better if it were just a slab with...

Not sure how I didn't see this until now but I'm thoroughly disappointed that they are bringing the mindless copy-paste Toronto podium-tower typology to Villiers Island. Yeah there's some kind of mid-block connection... yawn. Regardless of what wrapper they put on this, it's already...

My understanding is that Westbank has sold their interests in this project to ALLIED.

Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't this project called Birch House?

An over-hyped project imo. Other than the neon sign I don't really see what makes it stand out to people. The design is generic but generic only works when it's well-detailed.

It's a shame about the window wall choices made here because the portions done in precast with the strong horizontals look sleek and clean.

I am elated they went for precast instead of metal panel on those vertical pickets and the slab edges. Really makes a big difference from the de facto aluminum.

I can't get over how great the proportions are here. And some really good restrained but beautiful design thought.

So fold your company since that indicates there is "nothing left to bring to the table." ;) Anyways, I digress. I have a number of feelings toward this one but a huge improvement to the way it reads would be a variation in height from one tower to the other. It's understandable why they'd both...

Are you aware of what the industry currently faces? (Note: there will be many job losses. The next few years could get ugly.) But no, I don't think you're being harsh, and I appreciate that design is subjective. (I'm not a fan of this proposal either, by the way.) I do, however, think you are...

:rolleyes: The hyperbole is a bit much, no? Of course, all the dreck that comes from all the other competent-at-best architecture firms doing highrise work is passable, but a—A should be folded because the quality of its output is - gasp - variable over the years. I think most people...

Not a silly question, and rdaner should apologize for his waste of a post. I can't recall what the construction is here, so there may very well be a number of concrete walls within that you're not seeing in photographs taken from the outside. But often, demising walls (walls between residential...

This is a tremendous oversimplification and shows that you are overlooking a lot of what makes Charles St E the way that it is. It’s a street that was planned one lot at a time with little relationship between buildings. It being designed by other architects wouldn’t have created more variety...