Where did this idea of foreign architecture come from? Is the AGO really a 'foreign' object, even though it was designed by a local boy? Isn't that the definition of home-grown?

Well, the number has to exist somewhere. Otherwise we're just arguing unfounded assumptions. I think they serve a logical public transit purpose, and are connected to public transit in a way that suicide barriers are not.

I can't think of the last time I heard about jumpers, pushers, or stumblers. How many people are killed this way in the city? Well, it's nice to see that they work, but what strikes me is the numbers we're talking about. There aren't that many suicides in the first place... My point, which I...

I'm not sure any of that's true though, really. You're making an awful lot of assumptions about awfully large groups of people :) I kinda doubt the craftsmanship standards of the early 20th century were really on par with what had come 50 or a hundred years previous (so there's a parallel to...

Does the subway actually need barriers? Are the barriers meant to stop people from accidentally falling onto the tracks (does this happen?), feed into the hysteria of 'people being pushed onto the tracks' (does this happen?), or stop concerted suicide attempts? Did the Bloor Viaduct's suicide...

It's no skyscraper, but you don't have to look further than Mississauga for one. They're much pinker in person. The hand-wringing over the colour choice of their marketing is so precious!!! They chose pink because it's punchy against their black and white collateral, not because they're trying...

I doubt it, but there's 4 or 5 units in that building with that acute glass corner. No one seems to really know what to do with it. It's also really not that far from the street, so what ever's in there is very much "on display" (which I don't find very residential).

Why don't you go sit in a corner yourself until you learn a few more social graces? What a prick you are to people sometimes, and for what reason?! His opinion on region and neighbourhood names? What happened in your life to hurt you so badly? Shame on you, really. Shame!

It's more what's done with EIFS than EIFS itself (a poor craftsman blames his tools). Berkeley Street stands out in my mind as a good example of recovering brick facades without ruining them entirely in the process — though I'm sure that was done with some other rendering material, there's...

awww, I just did one of those laugh-snort-laugh things. It's like time's stood still. Well, the chest hair grafts were painful, but they seem to be taking well. I've been wearing one of these all summer though, trying to get used to it:

I think it's a sharp looking building! The drab green panels are an odd choice, but the white ones have got to go, they look so cheap and unfinished (like Spire's ugly plywood-yellow ones).

I don't know about anyone else, but over the last year I've found a marked improvement in cycling habits in the city. I get smiled at more by cyclists, instead of just presumptively scowled at, people don't jam their bike between my car and the curb when I'm turning right as often, they respect...

Pretty sure it's a '71 Cutlass

Motorcycle's still free, but you have to pay for the sidecar's parking ;)

I'm not sure how much space a museum with no collection needs...best to start small, yeah?

Could be a good spot for the Museum of Toronto...

I couldn't have come up with a better description of Opera if I'd tried. Bravo to you sir!

The only issue with this of course is that it'll still be bland in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, 100 years. A statement building, on the other hand, would be hideously ugly in 20, but then potentially be gob-smacking again in 40. It's true that it could have turned out so much worse, but it...

You're right. Now our landfills will be made up of 0.8% plastic bags. No, I think the more tangible result will be fewer jobs at those bag makers. Yes! YES!!! It isn't free. Neither is the staff (which you don't pay directly either). It's part of overhead :) You pay for them through...

Paying 5cents a bag is not putting the environment first, not even Loblaws' PR machine is brave enough to put that idea forward. All we're doing is normalizing a new method of social control in Canada, showing that we don't mind the idea of punitive taxation. While it might not seem like a big...