If you read the link carefully, it isn't about the Best Buy, but about a particular building upon the 50 Ashtonbee site--***the one on the left in the tweet***. It's a consequence of listings being "address-based" rather than "building-based". That the Best Buy is part of the address is pure...

"Plenty of warning" is one thing; "timing of action" is another (which was the point of Bozikovic.'s tweet--distracting the hysterical preservationists with one action so that they can get away with another action on the sly)

I think that in a loaded case like Ontario Place, your comment about "tiny concrete buildings" and historical designations being used way too widely helps explain the "personal" undertone. And you speak of "a 100-year-old church" as if it were a generic case--heck, if one *were* to use the...

Y'know, given the tone of the post you're responding to, you might as well be the cartoon cliche (NB: *only* a cartoon cliche; but one so many social-media sarcastics lazily refer to) of a condo developer hearing about the St Anne's Gladstone fire... Then again, you might as well never have...

In a funny way, I *can* see him opting to demolish in the name of shutting those yappers up once and for all. Like he was forced into this option. And whether on behalf of condos, schools, museums, parks, etc, he knows that a clean slate is optimum. "Do it", rather than dragging feet--and he...

A lot of people are offering the hackneyed "condos" alibi for what's being done here (which doesn't make sense as it's conservation land and hence off-limits)--I think this is more of an "owning" gesture on Doug's part. He knows there's all those namby-pamby Brutalist hysterical types wanting...

Well, what always intrigued me about it was its 1940s "transitional" quality--a foot in both the prewar-Moderne and postwar-Modern camps. And I even figured it out in youthful family visits to NOTL; that is, it may be an iconoclastic acquired architectural taste within the historic context of...

Well, none of those shots are particularly flattering--schoolyard perspectives seldom are, and the "frontal" is overexposed and overconcealed by foliage. This comes closer to conveying the "intriguing" element of which I speak...

Compared to the intriguing 1948 Moderne of the existing Parliament Oak School that's to be demolished for this, this kind of schlock is insult to injury.

I am finding from social media that the "attacks on Christianity" crowd is piggybacking off the disaster fairly aggressively--ironically in a way that betrays that they have no real clue as to what's been lost here (because the only "heritage" they're concerned with is the more loadedly abstract...

The most distressing spectacle is that of endless jaded social media comments along the lines of "here come the condos". i.e. presupposing this is some kind of "there goes that Brad Lamb again" circumstance...

I wouldn't. The Toronto Eaton Centre isn't a woebegone sitting duck like those other erstwhile Ontario Eaton Centres.

I recall the lobby smelling like dairy as late as the 1980s. Hopefully whatever cornice was once up there will be reinstated someday.

Except that the political culture has changed since it was a swing seat, back in the days of the PCs--the present-day Conservatives having little inner-Toronto urban appeal, and the NDP more viable than ever (as symbolized by Jill Andrew provincially). If it weren't for the PoilievreCons...

I'm also wondering when Britannica started to sport its rooftop sign (which was a landmark all the way through the 80s, and what most remember the building for)

When it comes to dating assistance, is that a '63 Pontiac on the right?

Bleccchh.

Is this one of those Starlight Properties hackjobs?

It isn't. I went there to pick up a delivery last week.