Women's fashions in 1912 v 1927: what a radical change in a relatively short time.

What a defacement. And for what?

Branksome Hall is on the other side of the ravine, They're going to be screaming blue murder about the height.

Agree. Those towns should neve have been built at that corner. What were planners smoking in the 90s?

Love this T&N. In an incredibly fast-changing city, here is a corner of Toronto that has remained essentially untouched by time for 85 years.

Whoa. Has a modern office building ever got that kind of preservationist treatment before?

By my reckoning, precisely two buildings on the above map remain: the Toronto Club and the Bank of Montreal at Yonge and Front.

My God, why even bother? Why go to the trouble of tearing down the old HBC, only to replace it with something of the same height? And what about the dead-zone NE corner of Bloor-Yonge?

Gentlemen, we have liftoff.

Word is Kristin Wong Tam is about to make the jump to provincial politics. Going to run in Toronto Centre for (what else?) the NDP.

So long Alexander Wood, it was nice knowing you.

How parochial. They did hire a Canadian firm -- it's not like they went to the U.S. and Europe. Funny, I don't see this kind of criticism on the many threads praising Claude Cormier.

I've got the full picture in one of those old Mike Filey Then and Now books. It's by Gaston Gascard and a good digital reproduction can be found here: https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digital/NG/historicTOmaps/1876GascardBEVfromNRailElevator.jpg

Contra general sentiment in other threads, the renderings for this project were very accurate.

See my post back in February 2019 (#57). The neighbourhood association explicitly objected to the four-storey height in its fundraising letters.

It's news to me that there's underground parking beneath that surface lot facing Jarvis. Sixties planning at its best.

Four-and-a-half years, four-and-a-half floors.

This reminds me of the recent deluxe reissue of the Replacements' "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash." Cluelessly repackaging a grungy classic in a way that defeats its original purpose.

Not that I'm any retail guru, but even before the pandemic I thought that below-ground, south-of-Bloor MacEwan's was an ill-advised location and would have a hard time competing against Eataly and Pusateris.

Nice new paint job on the fire station. Looks like they put the lettering back up too (or recreated it).