Really depends on the space for me :) My previous apartment was brash with colour: peacock blue livingroom, yellow kitchen, acid green bathroom, matte midnightblue bedroom. But it was a small place, with a lot of really old, wide, moldings in white, so it never felt overwhelming. My place...

Because you're being obtuse. Just because there are uglier, more dated, or plain stupid, buildings doesn't dilute the fact that the 4SC is also dated. It might have been cheeky once, but now it's plain accurate. The Car Showroom comments find a worthy target here ESPECIALLY because of its...

yeeeeeah, but downstream is the lake? Like 50 feet away?

Mass Hysteria!!! Banning smoking indoors makes sense, banning smoking out of doors is pseudoscience and social engineering (no surprise it would be popular with some here) From this month's Advocate: [...] Michael D. Shaw, an environmental scientist (not a tobacco lobbyist), says that most...

I hardly see how that's possible. At street level it's mostly black brick and car displays.

Hollow, fading, values like beauty? Versus the enduring legacy of a functional car show room? He's performed admirably then. My guess: when the COC started this process this building wasn't the one they had in mind. It became the final product because of rounds and rounds of budget concessions...

I don't think that the public wanted a Libeskind, or a Gehry, or an Alsop. I think they wanted something more than what we ended up getting. Chastising 4SC and Corus for their dullness doesn't mean people are looking for a spotted blue crystal on stilts - just something more than a too-familiar...

No I'm not. I'm poking fun at how overblown you're trying to make this. "Explain dated"? Explain "that still doesn't explain the word dated". What part are you unsure about? Here let me help Maybe it's people who can't read who think the building's dated.

No, Dated. That's the world that I was looking for.

How does 4SC look dated? Its awnings, its glass, its materials, its massing...I think you're being obtuse by pretending not to have noticed. And maybe you're right; Corus might not look dated, but it also doesn't look like much of anything at all. A big glass box that could have been built...

Ew. Incidentally, if that's how they end up beautifying the Gardiner, I might change my vote to tear it down :S

I think his newer work looks kinda dated, certainly the 4SC looks dated. But I also think you're also taking a somewhat light-hearted eye-poking exchange a little too seriously.

If I might suggest the most obvious woonerf: Church Street, from Carleton to Wellesley? I can't imagine anyone opposing this.

:eek: CDL.TO FTW!!!

The issue isn't whether you're inconvenienced by something. You were wondering where the Cost/Difficulty was in "exclud[ing] potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits of its use" Food is a private good. If you don't have money, you can't buy bread. I suppose you could grow your own food...

I was imaging cost/difficulty in this case relating to how much the highways directly facilitate business activity in our city. It would be hard to argue that shutting down all of our highways for a day wouldn't severely impact Toronto's economy. How many people do we need to restrict from the...

You can still buy those classic 3" wide aluminum louver blinds, with the good old fabric draws, from Home Depot for a lot less than you'd imagine. Bet they'd hold onto some high-gloss spray paint really really well...

What are you talking about? The subway offends me? Underground parking offends me? I love underground parking. I love meatball subs. The three parking spots I was referring to (and thanks for making me explain the joke) are actually display areas for Jaguars / Range Rovers (possibly the most...

Well, if I bid, one of my stipulations will be that they'll have to provide more parking than just those three spots on Queen Street and Richmond/University.

I wish they'd just bite the bullet and recover it like this: Mercabarna-Flor Designer: Willy Muller Architects Location: Barcelona, Spain