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One obvious way to retain the funding would be to institute a flat development tax per square meter of space (presumably with different rates for different uses and project locations), while instituting a much more generous zoning plan. This would eliminate a lot of the uncertainty we have now...

I can understand why the City prefers keeping the outdated zoning policy, since it generally results in more easily gaining benefits to the public realm. But doing so is still ethically dubious in my opinion.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure that's what Christopher Brown was saying: "Fast forward to today and the F+P design, I can't imagine a less attractive face of an 80 + new tower if they'd kept what was there. Like making a Lada into a stretch limo."

Technically, the ad reports "over 55% sold". 72% is indeed over 55%. Maybe that 55% are the firm reservations, with substantial deposits, and the other 17% consists of more tentative reservations, still being negotiated?

I wonder why cities like New York City don't have more people willing to take on part of the load of updating projects. Considering its much larger population, New York City should be at least as heavily documented as Toronto.

Or perhaps even taller than originally proposed. That also happens fairly often. I personally would like to see it more slender and taller, but customers prefer massive floor plates.

If supertall status were a judgment call, you are REALLY asking for abuse, since there would always be room for dispute. You need a set of criteria that are completely impartial, based upon reproducible measurements. I believe that the "official" standards for determining supertall status were...

I personally have always thought that spires should NOT count towards height when deciding if a given building is officially a supertall or not. See attached image, that I made some time ago: I would be happy for Commerce Court 3 (and FCP as well) to be considered barely short of supertall...

I have to disagree with this. Like it or not, spires are considered part of the official height of a building, and since this object is not an antenna, and it's so similar to other objects that ARE officially considered spires, it will undoubtedly be considered a spire, making this building a...

I see that the old "damned if you do, damned if you don't" attitude is still in full effect. If a new project is unadventurous or "value-engineered", it's condemned for its "Toronto blandness". If it's different, it's condemned for being freakish and out of place. This is the main reason why...

Like New New York in Futurama.

Hey, it's only been half a century! That's not so old, Oxford's New College was founded in 1379.

You beat me to it. As soon as I see sunnyraytoronto's name on a post, I know it's very likely going to be another rant about Bazis.

The tower is definitely over-sized in that image. When I count pixels, I get a height of around 329m (1080 feet), even allowing for perspective effects.

And a lot of people predicted this result when the City imposed its 157m "tabletop" skyline policy for this area.

This accords with what I believe as well. Mizrahi did not order the immediate destruction of the Stollerys stonework just for "The Evulz", he did so because if he had not done so, the whole project could have been entombed in red tape for who knows how long. By moving first, he prevented the...

Nice, France? Yes it is!

Yeah, the bigger they are, the harder they fall the longer they take to build.