As a regular rider, Spadina-Bathurst is the worst part at peak hours, and at night. Can take 10 minutes just to make it one block.

So... what are we looking at here? All that angled rebar, with no formwork to be seen. Are they just going to pour one great giant honking slab, for the building to float on?

That's good. 42's really such a nice number, isn't it?

Indeed. The original poster updated/retracted with this: https://twitter.com/blkmage/status/277213203900018688 Web forums giveth, and web forums taketh away.

Seems like the user I was linking to removed his links and re-posted them in a single image, sorry. https://twitter.com/blkmage/status/277115752845287425 In short: Totally unsubstantiated rumours that all's not well at Hillcrest...

Soooo.... https://twitter.com/blkmage/status/277108701331075073https://twitter.com/blkmage/status/277108753550159872

Building looks fine, but the video was brutal. Prospective tenants and brokers will be surely impressed by the part where the Terminator does a visual scan of the pigeons at Union Station.

As monstrous carbuncles go, I like it. I especially appreciate the fact that its colouring leaves it looking its best in the conditions pictured: Grey, cold and miserable - those most Torontonian of forecasts. No need to place it against a preternaturally blue sky, next to a green field that...

Yeesh, what a mess. What's more, think of the poor souls who book there in February, under the impression that they're going to land in the vibrant heart of the city. If nothing else, at least Billy Bishop is close enough to make a quick getaway...

Volo! I went every Monday for years - cheap pints night. But latterly you could barely get in the door, letalone find a table. Truly, nobody goes there anymore - it's too crowded.

Went up to Woodbine for the first time last night. There's something quite lovely about horseracing as an activity, and something wistful about the grand infrastructure of that grandstand, still new-looking, but grossly overbuilt to the new realities of online and off-track betting; the people...

There's a bit too much going on with this design for it to really feel self-confident. The exposed columns on the upper floors make it look especially fussy, as if the building was some kind of prop designed by an art department that needed a piece of machinery to look as complicated as possible...

"None of it is real. It’s a fantasy proposal designed to snare a casino.” Sounds about right to me. If they have major tenants lined up that they'd care to talk about, then that would be one thing. But remember, this is the same developer that made a park over railroad tracks they don't have...

Re: "NIMBYtect" - see also "Dazzle Camoflage"

Well, we sure did build things and stuff.

That's awesome, Skyjacked. Keem 'em coming!

I seem to recall having been gloomy about this building in the past, but I take it all back. This is dignified, stately, and - seen from the right angle - downright sunny.

The Princess of Wales opened in 1993 - just two years after Barton Myers' post-modern new wing of the Art Gallery of Ontario opened up. Frank Gehry strikes again! (but seriously... what a waste.)

Have they actually poured any concrete yet? No? Argh. This thing's getting cancelled! I can feel it in my bones! This project is one big city block-tease.

I'd been before, but I forgot about that crazy lounge music!