Great. And when you build swing sets do you buy two so that you have a duplicate set of parts in case one of them catches fire and is reduced to charcoal?

It's not a toy train, it's a miniature locomotive!

In extremely cold conditions the employer needs to allow for warm-up breaks, and the ratio of break time to work time expands the colder it gets. It might be that particularly for something like balcony work that the subtrade figured it just wasn't worth bringing guys in to have them spending...

We may have fundamentally different ideas of what constitutes vibrancy. I'd rattle off places like St. Lawrence, Kensington, Little Italy, the Annex, Trinity-Bellwoods, the Danforth, and Leslieville as vibrant neighbourhoods. Many of those are wealthier parts of the city, but I don't think of...

In fairness, the city was a different place in the 70s/80s when she would've started her advocacy work. Toronto was just starting to surpass Montreal as the main urban centre of the country. The fight over the Spadina Expressway would've been fresh in their minds. You would've had people like...

We've had a couple big ones lately. 8 Cumberland and the new Courthouse come to mind.

As much as I'd love to see an off-site auxiliary gallery (maybe in the Gehry towers on King? Or somewhere on Villiers Island? Kensington? Around the Science Centre?) I could see the existing site allowing for one more addition if maybe they did a land swap with OCAD. OCAD can have the...

Rivets basically had to be thrown. You couldn't cook them up on the beams, and there's not a lot of other options for rapidly getting them from the furnace to the connection

306 is a charming little building. Not the kind of thing that warrants preservation necessarily, but the lines, materials, and proportions are all excellent. I wonder if it'd make sense to connect that private laneway through to Rolston, not so much for vehicular access but more as part of the...

Which makes the omission of ground floor retail more glaring. I know that the local context on Eglinton at that location is not currently retail-oriented, but with the incoming density and changes to built form, now is the time to decide what the context will be. If we allow car-centric...

Has anyone seen the anchoring detail for how the cladding will go on to the glulam? The AGO had aluminium plates that were drilled + screwed onto the face of the members, and then a metal bracket was attached to that plate. It was crazy labour intensive, and now I'm curious to see if they've got...

Just start by taking the backs off the seats. Make it a little harder for spineless pissants to take up residence in the chamber.

As a long-time resident of that area, if you think residents' quality of life at Jarvis and Dundas has deteriorated since all the redevelopment got underway... well. The roadwork and noise and dust suck, but I'd much rather be doing a 10pm walk around that intersection in 2022 than 2002.

Oh, that could be, and would make sense! I've only seen the brace in pictures and it didn't look as steep as I'd expected

I don't think it's as straightforward as more floors = thicker member. Those 6-floor spans will be at a much steeper angle and that'll significantly reduce the load. A 45 degree brace is under a much higher load than a 75 degree brace, all other things being equal.

I think that's the steel for the first "mouth". You can see how the columns angle back to give the clear space along the east elevation, and you can see how the floor one below the top is inset.

That could end up looking pretty striking. The brake on the panels will catch the light in interesting ways, and the heavy verticals will be discernible from far off. It's going to stand out from its neighbours.

I'm a little surprised that the glulam isn't sheathed in something? When the AGO went up every single piece of material had a plastic sheath on it to protect the glulam from the elements. Has the technology just changed in the last decade to make the material more weather resistant? And how are...

That's how I'm reading it. Unless there's a secondary angled frame bolting on to the bottom two-thirds of the existing frames, where the black panel currently is

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