There is a similar one at Oben Flats (1075 Queen E) that has been operating successfully in a rental building for a year now. There are a few in Ottawa as well. These are all semi-automated, in that the users still park their cars conventionally into each space. 900 Bloor West included...

THE BAR WILL BE MADE OF PINOT GRIS

Floods are becoming an epidemic in all of these new high-rise builds. From what I have heard, banks won't even approve mortgages in buildings like the Shangri-La for this very reason. My own building suffered TWO floods from the bursting of pipes last year. In both cases, the elevators were...

I thought I read it was going to be a JW Marriott?

Perhaps they could retain the façade of the current vessels and build a glass box on top to double the seating?

This is Toronto condo architecture we're talking about. Perfunctory statements are ahead of the game.

Church St. soon to have the retail and restaurant character of Bay St. between Dundas and Bloor. Yay!

The government is doing it the right way. Why the hell should Amazon get tax breaks? Also, Toronto doesn't make a ton of sense for Amazon because they are going to have very high competition for the talent they desire. They are much better off going to a city which gives them incentives and...

It's naïve to think that the prime motivator for a profit-driven company Alphabet to create this kind of "city" isn't about data-mining. Of course is it. It's quite brilliant: instead of creating "probes" (smart phones, home assistants) into the consumer's life, they will bring the consumers...

Why not a bit of colour? Are architects afraid of it? Those racing stripes could have provided some great contrast against the overwhelming mass of grey/blue on the rest of the tower. One literally gets depressed when looking at it. Wait until winter... The podium looks like someone brought...

Having just come back from Barcelona, not exactly a city synonymous with new and modern development, this project looks like garbage. Even Barcelona's insignificant new builds are far more interesting architecturally then the stuff we are building in "rich" areas. In Toronto, the prime...

Toronto is not very good at folding dining/drinking options into their park spaces, as is standard in Europe. For example, I visited the newly-opened Trillum Park this weekend with friends, and our only option to eat something by the water was a popsicle stand....

Didn't even realize there was a Subway there... The new Thai place that replaced Just Thai is definitely a step up. And the food is way more authentic.

What a mess. Or maybe Teeple has just become better at projecting their as-built aesthetic...

The stepped "podium" portion looks good. Nice scale and mix of materials. The "tower" in the back looks awful. I mean, it looks grey and dreary on the rendering already, which is a bad sign.

Walked by this on the weekend. The tower looks so basic and out-of-place in a neighborhood of interesting buildings. Bad.

Right, Toronto is way ahead of the global curve when it comes to fountains. That sounds like us! I'm sure the Four Seasons don't have a functional fountain because it was cheaper, and they knew they could get away with it in Toronto.

ruh roh

Boring colours, ugly cheap cladding, weird massing. Yay, another prime location wasted on shitty, shitty architecture! Anyone have the rendering handy? Would like to compare.

I saw them testing it yesterday. It is FANTASTIC. We need tons more of this in this city of grey cladding and glass.