Yeah, that's true. I was just spitballing, mostly in jest. Certainly there are more doable ideas out there....

I could see some sort of meta/digital/social media art concept working here. Maybe devote a couple of digital screens to selfies people take while visiting the square in real time (they can upload the images/videos to the related website which randomly chooses which ones to display) I'm sure...

Kinda like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

Given the location, this would make a great site for Therme's spa.

I'm sure the FODF Group will express a strong interest, if they haven't already. (Friends of Doug Ford for anyone still unaware of this powerful lobbying organization)

Someone should timelapse this. If the ramp hits all 4 corners--circling the drain as it were--it would look pretty cool.

Wait, aren't ALL the threads for that?

Rochdale College? Surely those folks didn't need to have actual glowing building tops in order to see glowing building tops.

The most insulting (and maybe ironic in the infamous song's use of the word) is its sheer prominence in one of the most emblemetic post card views of the city. It's like CF really wanted to be a bug in the city's chardonnay.

So the idea is to turn an unusually classy, elegant mid-rise stretch of Yonge Street into NYCC...? My feelings are pretty much word for word what Charleton Heston bellowed at the end of Planet of the Apes.

Hell, why not have both!?

To be fair, they may have been less cheaply built if allowed to be taller. For instance, I wonder if Nobu would have been as egregiously cheaped out if allowed to rise to, say, 60 or 70 stories.

This is the one building I really wish was (apologies in advance for employing this way overused and, frankly, insipid term) a supertall. And I mean Asian style ST, like, over 400 meters. It's a dynamic, unique, beautifully detailed tower, that if stretched to its ideal form would just look so...

Watching this rise enables us to gauge with increasing accuracy where on the ugly-scale this is going to end up--1 being something like Aura, and 10 being along the line of the Ryugyong Hotel in N Korea before the glass was added..

Disgusting. With all we know about climate change and how urgent the situation is now, there should be an absolute ban on destroying perfectly functional buildings of this size. Especially if the replacement is going to have the exact same function. Even more so if the original has architectural...

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

They're far too busy nabbing speeding cyclists in High Park.

Sounds like a perfect chase scene for any generic crime thriller flick.

And produces far fewer greenhouse gases. Frankly, I don't see any downsides to timber frame, so let's make every mid-rise with it. .

Along with most of Canada. Of course if things get so bad that people have to move here just to survive, the game is over for everybody.