I'd turn your question around a bit: is the window wall system actually necessary? Some 80% of the building features precast panelling with punched windows. IMO it'd look a lot better if that were 100%. But to answer your question, the best recent example of this style in TO has to be 1 St...

There's no doubt about the quality of the limestone. I think even some of the bigger faux skeptics on here would welcome this building if clad entirely so. It's the juxtaposition against sloppy detailing and cut corners that make this overall a miss. Just look at that clunky, mullion-heavy...

And that brick too, hot damn. Whoever's behind the cladding spec on this deserves a raise.

200 new homes with a high bike:car parking ratio along a new transit line should be an urban slam dunk. Yet by going from 9 retail units to just 1, this may end up a net negative for the urban experience along Eglinton. It's high time to legislate standards for retail unit replacement /...