the ground level design here seems super underwhelming and banal. pretty unfortunate

agree with the height, these should have substantial height to have a fighting word in all this. I thought the same thing in that the towers seemed odd over the main machine hall. However, it does allow you to preserve much of the open space on the site which is nice. It's not a dissimilar...

agreed on the height. it seems they were pretty strict about not wanting to supercede heights of neighbouring buildings. i believe the intention is that the machine hall is converted to building lobbies, cores, and some storefronts, and the east warehouse and west foundry are retained.

IRCPA releases their plan.

I was on pins and needles watching the updates. this is seriously like watching a movie at this point, someone pass the popcorn..

Pretty fascinating play by play being tweeted by Global news right now on the court hearing..

The reflections in the Corus building in that first one are gnarly

HA!! Steve Clark: "Quick, let's forge a bunch of heritage impact assessments over the weekend, and play nice with the City so that we look like the bigger man" What the hell is this? if you know you're offering a token of good faith now, then you know that you already look stupid because you...

According to Wong-Tam, city is acting as a respondent in the application as directed by Mayor Tory, and city lawyers are involved. Not sure if this means that the city is still pursuing their own injunction still scheduled for feb 2...

Confirmed through Wong-Tam that this court application is the city injunction. Apparently, court may acknowledge it anytime today or tomorrow even

UPDATE: there’s a socially-distanced demonstration today at noon at the Foundry. Wong-Tam will be on site to give more info on the court injunction that apparently may be submitted prior to feb 2 given the new housing number info found yesterday. For those of us UT’ers who feel this is important...

tbh, whatever developer has participated in this backroom deal is going to have to have a pretty good PR strategy to sell units after all the press coverage showing the demo of heritage buildings to make way for it. that is unless these towers wont happen for 2-3 years, which is probably the...

confirmed with Wong-Tam where this info came from, said city obtained it through provincial reps after their request for info on monday. demanded that public see further info regarding this. if we are to buy these numbers, using the blanket '1000' number that applies to all three West Don Lands...

demo continues today, digger is tearing in.... people just standing around sadly watching

sent....

on it, happy to make more studies. Wong-Tam has already retweeted it.

was inspired by your plan, as I was thinking this is exactly how the site should be laid out. created a quick 10min diagram. it's not much, but its more than the Provincial government is offering us right now...

if were on the topic of doing this demo correctly, everything about their schedule seems rushed and out of place. start tearing into a building, then start putting up hoarding, then take it down, then put up debris fencing, then tear up some more, then bring in more hoarding material, then let...

lots of media attention and news choppers early this morning, police were back on site too along with a handful of community members and curious onlookers. The diggers roll on...

following up, a lot of police force have shown up to site. digger has stopped temporarily, police have gone in. citizens yelling down from balconies. this is by far the most perplexing, confusing, and dramatic demos i've seen. lot of people just not on the same page..