So sterile, like the human server farm architecture out of the Matrix.

The One on Bloor/Yonge will end up being a 7 year build, and there's every reason to believe that the first tower here will also be the same, but that the second tower could go up quicker, on the same base.

Here's the thing. The cost of housing is far too high. The money that Canadians put into housing would be much better spent going into productive things - innovation, entrepreneurship, investment, even retiring and moving somewhere else so someone more productive can take your place. Like...

Man, I'm just waiting for the The Agenda with Steve Paikin discussion with a bunch of planners and politicians whining about this change.

Great photos, but man it's really something how monotonous is Toronto's architecture, looks like a large server farm.

I read about how the city forced them to chop 7 stories and I ask myself: why would the city not simply limit parking? Pretty much the only good reason to reduce height and unit count is because of congestion. So why not simply limit the number of automobile storage spaces, so that people who...

So, basically, your position is that Toronto has to build the most expensive subway line in the world at $1 billion per km and that it's reasonable for this to take well over a decade. They'll have to relocate some utilities! They'll need to build ventilation shafts! People on boards like...

Wynne had me until the OMB. if that bill dies, I'm back.

just so crazy for me to imagine that while everyone else is moving toward OMB-style controls to prevent wealthy incumbents from preventing housing in their areas, toronto/ontario is going the other way. just yesterday, california's governor signed 15 bills that make it more difficult for...

"normal" would be just montreal-level transit, the east coast standard. and it's not tangential at all. think of what it means funneling thousands of daily person-trips into this location with the teetering transit "system" toronto has right now. and knowing this, what, they'll elect to...

in a dark way, the province of ontario's (oblivious) intent to showcase toronto's "worst in class" public transportation is a good thing. once you have a large number of people like attorneys and judges who have the ear of the government (whatever the party), you'll possibly have some...

if the conservatives win, the number one thing they should do is bring back the full power of the OMB.

^ too far from LA and not great flight options compared.

OMB is north america's best development review system and killing it is nuts. this is an enormous victory for low rise housing and a terrible blow to highest use. just terrible public policy.

uh... : After news of the HOOPP lifeline emerged on Thursday, the CEO of the pension fund announced he would step down from his job on Home Capital's board of directors, citing the potential conflict of interest. HOOPP chief executive Jim Keohane had been a director of Home Capital since last...

The rent controls should limited to pre-~2010 buildings and the government should waive property taxes, in an all out effort to keep get rental construction going. But, this is pretty much the only place where I see them going wrong. I really hope that the great towers on the boards come up...

very beautiful, but only those three little retail levels is a real shame. toronto has a very big problem with the high cost of commercial leases, which has over a generation greatly decreased the number of viable spaces for entrepreneurs downtown. as such, a giant proportion of shops that...

decent project. man, just strolling around the neighborhood in streetview, pretty amazing how many surface lots are still there. must have been a wasteland back in the 1990s or whatever.

this has to be one of the goofiest looking bits of facadism i've seen in a while, and toronto is world famous for goofy facadism.

it's always a disaster when a company loses their property through default. the problem here, more than anything else, is the condo/hotel ownership scheme. talon pre-sold on the basis of inflated income estimates, which were used for sales and to justify the value of the units on the books...