Ah my bad, I thought you were referring to the debate earlier about the firewall. I'd be curious to see how it ages as well.

Eh will it matter? The Gloss condos development (or whatever comes after, if that one fails) next door will cover it up eventually.

It's not only juvenile but annoyingly privileged. If there's one thing about UT that drives me mental, it's the legions of people who refuse to entertain that there are issues and concerns beyond architecture. Not that I'm above commenting on architecture, nor am I totally opposed to development...

And some of us like to discuss social issues (which are inherently urban issues, unless you somehow think homelessness, affordable rent, drug addiction and abuse and austerity aren't social or urban issues), especially ones that are so pointedly connected to a proposal like this one. If you want...

Because some of us actually care about urban issues and development beyond the shiny renderings? The drooling over flashy images and pie-in-the-sky proposals is far more annoying in my opinion.

But the point you continually refuse to see is that they won't look so great once they're actually built. aA might be repetitive but they are consistently good. Firms like P&S will come up with these whacky, imaginative designs and proceed to ruin them with low quality material and corner...

It looks less like One Saint Thomas and more like the Tridel condos near Burnhamthorpe and the 427 to me.

Completely unrecognizable today, what a shame...

Not only is the stonework here horrible but, as I'm sure we've been over a million times, we lost the original Toronto General Hospital here. For this? What a loss...

Maybe Keith Laycock is cool with the complete lack of workplace regulation and safety that saw thousands die building the various transcontinental railways in Canada and America but I think the rest of us are cool with taking a bit of extra time in return for construction workers not dying in...

Is it? I think the Canada Life Building is right at the left edge of the photo (barely visible). The building I'm thinking of is the one in the distance that's between the armories and the Canada Life Building on the horizon. I just can't figure out what that'd be. It feels too tall to be a part...

What is the tall building in the distance just to the top left?

Very true. There are some options around Bay and Charles but many of the restaurants in that area are way too expensive for the average student's budget :(

re. the McDonalds, remember that this condo is right beside the ROM and U of T's campus. I have a few friends who were very disappointed that the closest McDonald's to their residence was closed and who were also equally happy to hear it would come back eventually. Nothing beats greasy food when...

And tbh Bay and Church shouldn't be for cars either. Deliveries can be scheduled during lower volume hours and commuter traffic by single occupant vehicles should be heavily discouraged. I'd love to see expanded sidewalks on Yonge and renewed streetcar services on Bay and Church to help relieve...

I haven't got pictures but they're actually still running the original subway cars in Montreal. The fact that they're completely underground seems to have kept maintenance costs down and allowed them to run well beyond their expected lifespan. That said, the new Azur cars are replacing the old...

I...what? Please tell me my internet sarcasm detector is off and I'm missing the joke here lol...

If I understand English grammatical rules right, surely it would be "douchiness?" :p

It will, they secured the lease pre-construction lol

This kind of gentrification is actually pretty awful in my opinion. Pushing out low income people who already live in an area just because you find them "sketchy" is a horrible way to run a city. Why does an area need to be "cleaned up and reclaimed" from the people already living there? Surely...