One thing that always puzzled me about Gehry and his firm is that for an office so dependent on technology, why do they never produce any renderings? The models are fabulous, but real images showing these buildings in their context would be far more interesting. (I guess you could count the...

I second that.

Updated massing for M+G! The towers seem to be slowly evolving back to the original design. Does any know what the materials are for these models? I assume 3D printed...

I agree, but in this case I think the height is fine. The wonderful building will add a lot to the neighbourhood. My dream is that the architects will choose to paint or clad each of the boxes a different colour, turning the building into a vertical Sharp Centre (OCAD).

WOW!!!! I'm all over supersilms, and this on is pretty good! The cantilever is very interesting. Reminds me of 225 West 57th Street (the Nordstrom Tower) in NYC. I'm not to crazy over the facade and the East and West elevations, but the dimensions and slenderness alone will make this building...

May I inquire as to exactly why I was temporarily banned?

So is this project officially another casualty of Toronto's big tradition of thinking small?

Thank you for sharing that, that house is unreal...

Why do these thing always go through a now standard revision process, striping the design of any identity or interesting features, and watering the form down to a simple, boring box?

Jeez, I don't like the FCP at all, but I don't want to destroy it. A perfectly well-functioning large office building less than 40 years old?

That's very interesting. I always thought of UT as more of a mixed demographic. I'm in Gr.12 by the way...

What is the status of Mirvish's application to the OMB?

Exactly.

The recaldding helped A LOT to improve the FCP's appearance, but I feel it just falls in the crack between good modernist architecture (TD Centre) and good postmodernist architecture (Brookfield Place). Also, the antennas are a mess. Still, it looks a much better than the AON Centre in Chicago...

Or a city planner pretty much anywhere!!! He'd be more destructive than Robert Moses!

Courtesy of Wikipedia: FRUIT FRUIT is an acronym for "Fear of Revitalization Urban-Infill and Towers". The word FRUIT or FRUITs is a play on words in support of the acronym BANANAs. First used in a development industry article in Vancouver to refer to irrational local opponents (fruit cakes...

Also the Aqua balconies look shoddy, and the mechanical levels break the sense of movement to the building. One Bloor FTW!

Absolutely right! Also, I'm not saying that all the new condo should look like something out of Dubai (that would make the city even more ugly than it already is). I'm saying that developers should put money into not only the architecture to make the building stand out (i.e. more L Towers)...

Yes, but this isn't the four seasons…it's a small boutique hotel, and the car traffic it will add will be spread out through the day, so it won't single-handedly cause gridlock in the area.

That's making the assumption that these new urban condo residents will use cars for all there commuting and travel in the city. Intensification in the downtown core is adding a whole huge new class of residents who do not need to use (or even own) cars.