I was under the impression that the south building was originally going to be a condo (though it's be the same from a planning approvals perspective), so maybe they changed their mind to move faster (in the face of rising hard/soft costs)....or maybe I'm just speculating too much

Are you talking about the city that built all of those one storey subway stations along the Eglinton line and the extension of the University line? The city whose Neighbourhoods-first planning policies keep most of the area around the Bloor/Danforth line stations looking like suburbs. The...

Looks great (though I'd prefer more retail and more stone making its way down to the retail) thanks in large part to the use of the warmer colors. Why can't we have more buildings with warmer tones/colors? Why can't more architects look at a city where all the vegetation is dead for 6 months...

I like the wood grain roads in the rendering....must be what the Section 37 money is going to

I like all those round frames built into the retail podium....would be pleasantly surprised if they didn't get value engineered away

Respectfully disagree, in that I like the cantilevered podium (makes the area feel more open and walkable than what's currently there), especially the curve in it, and I love the bold choice of color (though I worry that it won't survive). I know a lot of people on this site like the...

Not joking: I ran by there this morning and that temporary brown cover shown here on the south and west side of the building looks better than 99% of the cladding and materials used in this city over the last 20 years. It has some warm, yet gritty, color, it looks solid (unlike all the flimsy...

Are they going to be moving some of those massive power lines? I believe that these may be utility right of ways, ingrained in provincial documents, but looking at Google Maps it looks like they shave off over half of the southern side of the prospective development lands here...if there was...

Those bronze accents add some life to these already decent looking towns. I wish other architects/developers in this city weren't so allergic to color

Is there always this much concrete in a timber building? I get the elevator shaft but I thought that it would be limited to that

Alex, I'm a big fan of your writing, and don't mean to be adversarial (toward anybody on here), so I will clarify what I said. There is research on how certain types of architectural features/details/variety attract people's eyes/attention (much of which is guided subconsciously) more than...

With all due respect, in actuality, there is research on cognitive architecture (how the brain unconsciously responds to architecture, due in part to how the brain has evolved) that implies that much of modern architecture is inhuman (or at least inherently sterile and uninteresting in that it...

I think that they should eventually go further than this, by pushing all the parking underground and building over those empty lots in the rear/south while at the same time tearing down and redeveloping all the parking structures (which seem like a waste of space that disconnects the mall from...

Does anyone know why none of these new builds right on Yonge (this and Clover) are required to plant any trees on Yonge St? There's no trees on a Yonge sidewalk from College to Bloor, with the exception of those in front of the Marriott. I feel like with these new Yonge-fronting builds having...

I will respect it when it steps in to push forward real density near low rise residential or eliminates exclusionary zoning

I like the idea of small parkettes and POPS spaces scattered throughout the city and don't necessarily need larger parks everywhere, if the parkettes/POPS spaces are well done (through good landscaping, and good connections to the surrounding streets, building entrances, and maybe even cafes)...

I like that the Pavilion is now clearly part of the project as the lands where it is being built would have otherwise cut the development off from Wellington St. As per the October 5 CreateTO report: Head Lessee Proposal for the Wellington Destructor The selected project proposal (the "Project...

The stone around the columns has started to go in

Nice to see that this city is going to get a station that's not just some isolated one storey building (like the expansion of the University Line and the Eglinton LRT line)...this goes back to all the wasted land at all those stations along the Bloor-Danforth line.....people at the city...

This! They sat around accomplishing nothing (that master plan was due a long time ago) until they knew that they were about to get pushed out and suddenly they're eager to tell us about all the things that they were just about to do for this city....the city bureaucrats and councilors are so...