Gargoyles. Needs gargoyles. Lots of em.

US: Brantford. It's Brantford. Ladies: My point was not that nothing in New York, London or Hong Kong has ever been ripped down and replaced. As I wrote, I don't find that people return from those cities and express a yearning for dilapidated buildings that they find there to be demolished...

Android, well exactly. I don't recall people coming back from London, New York or Hong Kong and saying "such and such a neighbourhood was in bad shape - they should rip it down and start over".

Though I lament the partial collapse of this building, let's get a bit of perspective here. We've had two heritage buildings in the last decade collapse (Walnut Hall, a terrible loss - and the James Chalmers Building which was unfortunate). This half-collapse which might result in the...

I actually took a photo of myself and two friends sitting on a wall outside the convention centre, with the intention of returning in a few years when it was all done to re-take the same photo, with the same people, from the same angle. I came across it recently, and the difference is already...

Crimson, I would agree with you more if these developments had not been planned long ago, before people purchased in the towers nearby. The plan has been available to anyone who was interested for a very long time, since the 1990's at least.

This is a place where I could see commercial working well. I'd love if all those rowhouses were smart little restaurants.

I should be clear about my comparison - the area along Front Street East and north of that is a fine-grained intriguing area with a variety of building types, built over the course of many years and continually added to. My comparison is with the buildings along the Esplanade, built 1978-1982...

I'm also much less impressed than JBM is by the scheme. Logistical considerations aside, as depicted, it would be a long, hot and fairly uninteresting walk along this pier - and where, exactly, does it connect to the islands? Freed indicates it would touch the islands at various points along the...

I had a friend from Vancouver visit recently and we walked along the waterfront with a particular emphasis on new developments and parks (HtO, Ireland Park, Canoe Landing, even the Music Garden was new for her). She loved Canoe Landing, even though it remains fenced off and still a bit raw...

The circumstances that created the Tenement Museum are misrepresented in this article. The museum actually resulted from a 1930's law that banned wooden staircases in residential buildings - owners could replace the staircases or rip down the buildings and that's what most did. In this one odd...

Mike, you will understand that it is extremely rare that I could correct you on anything. But, with the utmost of respect, here is a very trivial (and perhaps interesting) correction. 880 Bay is seven stories. The elevator core rises only to the sixth storey, but there is a partial seventh...

tkip, you are exactly right. Hydrogen may be a way to store energy, but it is not a way of producing it. I laughed when I saw urbandreamer's post - Hydrogen - just 20 years away! In 1970, Hydroger was 20 years away - always 20 years away!

As an archivist, I can say with some certainty that this person knows not of what they speak. Not that there's anything truly offensive about it, but the role of the Toronto Archives is really very separate and distinct from Fort York or the Ex or Preservation Services, and there is nothing to...

jn, I thought we probably agreed on that. For me, St. Lawrence is the area south of Front, and the other areas, Toronto's "old towne" as it were, I think of somehow separately.

Re: Defensiveness. In relation to the headquarters for the securities regulator, this should be in Toronto and any government ought to see that. It would be an outrage if it is in Calgary. I don't consider this thin-skinned, just sensible. Especially given our higher unemployment rate, etc...

I think it looks ugly too, but it's quality as a sculpture seems emblematic of an era of architecture that is moving beyond modernism, so I think it is interesting. I would have to see it, built, in person, to truly decide. Re: Eiffel Tower. It wasn't exactly universally praised when it was...

I would not send a tourist down the Esplanade, no. St. Lawrence Market, YES, big nearby churches, YES, Distillery, MAYBE, but not down the Esplanade east of the market. Hell, my sisters were in town and I took them right through Regent Park to see the work that was happening there, and they were...

Lis, absolutely! Too late for many locations on the network (King, Queen, St. Andrew, St. Patrick) but could be used in some locations to increase revenues, especially on the Bloor-Danforth Line. Would love to see a smart little 50 storey over the Wellesley station.

"Calgary" and "charm" are two words that ought not appear in the same phrase without a negation in between.