Of course it is. Cowards.

Is that $667 in fees for the 318 sq. ft. unit?? I don't think any amount of amenities could justify that. That's like 2-3x the avg/psf for Toronto, from what I can find cited online anyway.

Lovely shade of green but that's about the only nice thing I can say about that cladding. Quite literally looks like shed panels from a big box hardware store. And what happened to the brick? Eh, why am I even asking these things anymore? I know the answer.

Only found one reference to his works in this thread, but I've long loved Arto Yuzbasiyan's watercolours and oil paintings of Toronto. His signature (and some of my favourites) are snowy scenes featuring our iconic streetcars: https://cowleyabbott.ca/artist/arto_yuzbasiyan

Saw this earlier today and I've gotta say, some of the posters summed things up quite succinctly. One quote stood out specifically: "I've never seen a city condemn itself to harsh mediocrity, building after building after building like this." About sums up how I feel about the past ~10 or so...

What about a compromise. Instead of this clunky hat that attempts to "preserve" the original volume, why not recreate it at the new proposed height. The strong vertical lines and crisp metal cladding seem to be more important to the design than the proportions here. Not long ago it wasn't...

Agreed, setbacks increase visual interest and provide more useable outdoor spaces for residents. Also with that mediocre cladding, anything that reduces the visual bulk is appreciated. That said I'm shocked to see real hand laid brick here.

No Dominion Public Building yet though, which was built between 1929-1935 so my guess would be 1927-28 for this video. Great find, I love these old videos.

So the eroded bank is still eroding away, but they've finished paving and reconnecting the section of Meadow Way path between Warden and Birchmount. It's a nice bit of respite in the very industrial area I work in. Lots of red-winged blackbirds perched on the cattails; luckily none decided to...

I remember that one. What I'd do for an old RS wagon.

I always love when relatively obscure cars show up in renders, because that's a 2005-06 Mazdaspeed 6 in the second last render. Underrated performance bargain for its time.

Definitely needs some TLC but also an underappreciated favourite of mine. I've always loved the brick pilasters; can't think of many other examples, details like that were often done on stone (or concrete stone look-alike) buildings.

They were even trying this concept in the far flung corners of the GTA way back in 2018 at Upper Canada Mall; billed as a food hall and decidedly more upscale than anything else in the 905 at the time. Not sure how it's doing these days though...

Biggest issue for me is the bog standard, bland metal doors for the central entrance. Very nondescript, could be pulled right from a suburban office park. Fenestration of new builds in this city is a seriously overlooked design element. Something richly detailed or using warm, contrasting...

Looks like they've planted white wisteria, so no purple here. It's also likely we won't see flowers for a while, it can take several years after planting for them to flower. The plant itself grows quite rapidly though, so I imagine it will start to fill in nicely by the end of summer. edit...

Yea, I concede, that's definitely more teal than turquoise. Also, Los Angeles. That explains it. I'm thinking they spent some time admiring the Eastern Columbia Building while there. I mean, how could you not:

Nothing gets the UT juices flowing like news from Oshawa. Looks like there's finally some movement at 135 Bruce, previously home to the Oshawa Fittings Factory but since vacant for 37 years. https://durham.insauga.com/development-finally-arriving-at-downtown-oshawa-site-vacant-for-37-years/...

It almost seems intentional at this point. How can the the various utilities be so profoundly uncoordinated? I get emergency work is needed, but this happens on such a regular basis and often right after any new streetscape is completed. Between this sort of thing and the residential-style blue...

Oh my I love that turquoise brick and there's some interesting detailing too. Certainly not getting my hopes up though.

The real world. It's pretty desaturated, although I wouldn't call it extremely grey. Reads as a warm grey to me.