Okay, two supplemental questions: 1) How did she know that Gristle was in the crowd? Did she recognize him (him?) or just from the posting? 2) Gristle, are you formally part of the "planning community" - ie, a planner - or does that just stem from the fact that on UT, we're all sorta part of a...

Thanks for the clarification, Gristle. To which I can only add: Wow.

That's unbelievable. So, was Gristle in the audience, and somehow told the reporter just to lift the forum post as a quote? Gristle, can you clarify on this point?

Lord help us, Prince Charles' view of architecture is starting to make sense.

Yes! The status quo with its things that are old is so dumpy. The people who stick up for it, dumpier. The dumpiest! Down with stuff! Up with bulldozing! The face of massive growth? I will make out with it. Mmm, the beautiful future. Mmm, sexy market forces! Mmm! Massive growth! (That's...

Every time they disassemble and reassemble a heritage building - no matter how meticulously - I always wonder if they have that moment where they're standing there looking at the just-finished product and there's three bricks and a beam left over, and somebody's like, goddammit!

It costs me $2 for a cup of tea at Second Cup. $4 doesn't seem outrageous for tea at the Ritz-Carleton. Hey, did you notice if there was anywhere to plug in my laptop? I wonder if they 'd mind if I plunked myself in the corner to do a few hours of work?

Perhaps I'm just aging at an abnormally fast rate.

"Much progress has been made on this project since excavation began in the fall of 1992..."

Hard to believe, Mr. Daddy, but some people might.

So, JazonZed posted this lovely photo over in the Shangri-La thread. But I have a Ritz question: Does the balcony we see here belong to the penthouse unit? Also, what (aside from mechanical) is under the sloped glass skylight? Will it ever be accessible for functions, or anything? Or merely a...

...but not far off from the Clear, Pure, and Good-Hearted Spirits at the Distillery. Surely they won't be allowed to be the only tall and pointy things in the neighbourhood.

What? No. Please tell me that putting a giant W on top of the building was, in fact, a touch added by the intern at the video production company. Otherwise it will be winning the award for the silliest hat of all.

It's only a matter of time for all of us, before we get redeveloped into condos.

^ That's good, since it sure didn't get one.

^ It is beneath the tracks. The tip-off is the escalators that take you up... to the tracks. That area is in the middle of the station, though. You walk straight back from the middle of the Great Hall to get there. My understanding was that the expansion will add a western concourse, roughly...

We're funny about architecture here in North America, and Big Daddy's points are a reflection of that. For some reason, North Americans got totally hung up on neoclassicism in the 19th century, and we've never recovered. By "neoclassicism" I mean trying to revive the classics - building your...

Yes.

MaRS Phase II finally set for liftoff Reported by Tim Alamenciak Reported on Monday, January 24, 2011 Phase II, the much-anticipated expansion to the MaRS campus at College Street and University Avenue, was announced to great fanfare in 2007, drawing attention from Ontario Premier Dalton...

Ironically, the rumour is that it's the TTC itself that's been responsible for holding up the Queens Quay redo, stalling the design process for well nigh a year with nitpicks and inaction.