At least I'm not pretending Toronto can realistically rival the likes of Dubai or Billionaires' Row. Toronto will NEVER be a traditionally 10/10 sexy city. Not unless you can somehow elongate James Bay and connect it to lake Ontario. Or, alternatively, lower Wasaga Beach to Newmarket. Whichever...

If you think this project sucks, I'm sorry but IMO you're a bit delusional or at least pretentious. You pretend to know what the acceptable standard of design is in Toronto. If you think the south side of this project looks better than the north side, again IMO, you are a pretender. You pretend...

True only to some extent. There are lots of investors or investment-minded users on this site with a desire to better understand the real estate market. Accounting is even listed as one of the most dry/ boring professions out there by actual studies. A few select people truly enjoy it and...

I understand it's a dramatic shift from the architectural style prevalent in the city, as demonstrated by the photorealistic universal renders attached:

The redesign actually has improved the podium. The previous one looked like an added block the tower was resting on, kind of like the World Trade Center which I find distasteful. While the original diamond pattern was striking, the current design ties in with phase 1 and especially phase 3 much...

This podium was clearly meant as a 'Blank Canvass' for walk-by improvised public art. It's got potential. UT members should organize with local artists to put up some art in this, expressing their feelings and all... 🙃

I guess you're suggesting the towers be orioented the other way around? Having this size of a mural on the front is absurd. I'd rather the glass. Unless you want to excecute the artwork on glass directly, in which case it wouldn't be a mural but stained glass lol.

I'm sorry if my comment came off rude. I'm sure UT enjoys having new members join - that's how the site stays relevant. How long you have been a member has little to do with your ability to contribute to the conversation in a meaningful manner. You could have joined yesterday but are an...

Next time try putting some more effort into your 2-sentence premise/conclusion newbie. Oh, and make sure your copy/pastes don’t magically move buildings sites, unless you’re aiming for some fine artistic finesse. Come to think of it, the CN tower looks good East of Yonge.

Because I'm bored I did some easy math. Garden snail speed: 0.05 km/h. Distance from Yonge/Bloor to the lake: 3.3 km. A snail would take 66 hours or 2 .75 days to reach the lake from The One. Damn I expected the snail to take at least a few weeks to reach the lake. So the answer to your question...

For some odd reason, likely due to the atypical disjointed podium, the base is now giving me a chic boutique feel, but almost as if it were constructed inside of a nice mall, made to imitate a stand alone building outside. If that makes any sense. Despite the super columns (which btw contract...

The footprint of the tallest tower is awkwardly small in comparison to the shortest tower. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Drove by yesterday and was lucky to stop at a red light on Bloor so I could get in more than just a quick glimpse. Wow, the pics here are awesome but still don't do the structure justice fully. It has already transformed the dynamic and really the character of the intersection for me. The...

Before the height was increased for 1 Bloor W, I kept daydreaming about 1 Bloor E being more elegant at 85s or 95s even. My visions are pictured below. Would you have liked this iteration instead, or would you rather the very tall guy, short girl couple to-be :).Damned be this pervasive, height...

This proves to me that tasteful quality cladding, with decently refined color, level of reflectiveness and architectural elements included in it (however subtle they may be) could make any glass box tower in Toronto appear sophisticated, appealing, motivating and even exciting regardless of how...

My google maps estimation of a 32m wide base on my previous post was close :)P This appears to be about 30 or 31-ish meters, similar to 432 Park Avenue's 28.5m. Someone confirm please, curious to know..

The base width appears to be at least 5 meters smaller than 2 Bloor West which google maps measures as 37 m wide. I was curious to picture how a roughly 300m tall tower looks from street level so had a little sketch up fun by doubling 2 Bloor's current height. For comparison 432 park avenue in...

Imagine YC with this podium... Is that too much of an ask?

The FIRST thing I thought when I saw the design (and I'm no architect) was why aren't they reciprocating the angled base theme by making the podium roof slope downward. If not by the same reverse angle, tapered enough so that you could see from street level the full effect of the hard tapered...

You're right actually, but i'm from a formerly-communist country in southeast Europe and we had our healthy share of communist grit and imposing grim concrete. This building's purpose could be to take one back to 1984, honing your mental conditioning skills. But I'm assuming there probably are...