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  1. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Waterfront Innovation Centre | 53.03m | 11s | Waterfront Toronto | Sweeny &Co

    Looks as "Markam office parky" as we feared. Yes, totally depressing.
  2. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Seaton House Redevelopment | 36.88m | 9s | City of Toronto | Montgomery Sisam

    This is certainly a large concentration of institutional uses. In order for the street to be perhaps be a little more (successfully) integrated into the surrounding neighbourhood, a better variety of uses would certainly help. Further, it is difficult to tell whether the buildings provide a...
  3. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Theory Condos | 101.49m | 30s | Parallax | Arcadis

    I am not sure this building deserves to be more noticed than it is already. If it was lowered 30 stories, that is the type of notice I would want for this design and execution.
  4. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | East FiftyFive | 83.21m | 24s | Lamb Dev Corp | a—A

    Simple, clean and a lot of attention to detail. Looks great so far.
  5. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | The Millwood | 157.6m | 45s | Times Group | Core Architects

    There are two great independent small "fruit and veggie" stores on that block and it will be a great loss when they disappear (I am at Yonge and Eg. and walk down to those shops).
  6. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | 372 Yonge | 278m | 85s | Yonge & Gerrard Partners | DIALOG

    This is a great looking building that actually looks like it was proposed for Bloor St. With a relatively expensive design and curtain wall, I am (pleasantly) surprised for this location. I too pray that it does not get value engineered down and we end up with another cheap investor/student...
  7. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Station Place | 134.72m | 40s | First Capital | Diamond Schmitt

    This is really awful, isn't it. It could not be cheaper looking, less creative or less aesthetically pleasing. In fact, one would be hard pressed to create something uglier. Just my opinion. Rant over.
  8. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT: Mount Dennis Station and EMSF | ?m | 3s | Metrolinx | IBI Group

    Many of these stations (and this one more so) are indistinguishable from the disposable architecture of a Loblaws Superstore. They certainly do not speak of the value we should be giving to public buildings and public transportation (imagine Union Station being built today, with the value...
  9. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | CAMH Discovery Centre | 41.6m | 7s | CAMH | KPMB

    This is capital B "Bland Institutional." I would think that a major street downtown deserves a little bit more than this.
  10. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Rail Deck District | 227.23m | 70s | Craft Dev Corp | Sweeny &Co

    This is no more the High Line Park (something that passes through numerous neighbourhoods and different building purposes, including a variety of residential, offices and museums) than the Bay Adelaide Centre is Rockefeller Center.
  11. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Rail Deck District | 227.23m | 70s | Craft Dev Corp | Sweeny &Co

    Excuse my "unhelpful hyperbole" but this is not a park. It's a large scale condo development with some green space (and if you took out all the concrete paving and staircases, not much green space). And a park does not need condos or apartment buildings planted into it to be successful. There...
  12. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | East FiftyFive | 83.21m | 24s | Lamb Dev Corp | a—A

    This building is a winner in almost every respect. Beautiful details.
  13. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | 50 Scollard | 147.62m | 41s | Lanterra | Foster + Partners

    And I thought I would never say this, but "thank goodness they are using precast" (as opposed to aluminum) panels.
  14. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Nordic Condos | 40.3m | 12s | Collecdev-Markee | gh3

    The white stucco/EIFS cladding on the floors 3 and up with be difficult to clean and probably look awful (as most light coloured stucco does ) after a few years.
  15. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | 66 Wellesley Street East | 101.78m | 31s | ONE Properties | S9

    What a bait and switch this has turned into. And with this particular architecture firm, is it rational to only assume the worst in terms of execution?
  16. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | Cumberland Square | 253.92m | 75s | KingSett Capital | Giannone Petricone

    I get excited when things start being built, not approved (see Mirvish Gehry).
  17. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | St Clair Place | 150m | 44s | Wittington | Diamond Schmitt

    I can unfortunately see this being value-engineered such that the podium will look nothing like the rendering (6 story curved glass? not. going. to. happen.). But I love the colour palette and the apparent choice of materials. The towers designs (great textures, great articulation) look...
  18. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

    Boy, those concrete barriers are ugly. You would think that a company spending tens of millions fixing up the roof level of a building, would care about the ground level a little....you know, where people actually interact with and see your building.
  19. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | St Lawrence Centre Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | CreateTO | Hariri Pontarini

    This is not intellectual masturbation (excuse my language): there are some real practical issues involved. The place is neither functional or in good repair. Thus a lot of money needs to be spent. Would it be better to spend money to build something better? That is the debate. Would we...
  20. alklay

    Toronto Toronto | 401 Bay Street | 143.86m | 33s | Cadillac Fairview | WZMH

    I am really interested as to how they do the ground floor. Opening up the ground floor with some transparent glass, would really improve the former bunker aesthetic (as opposed to simply re-cladding with large blank panels of opague glass). I will partially forgive this reclad if they improve...

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