And the choice is "A", which was Patkau as Alvin suggested. I have to admit, I voted for "C" initially, but I found the arguments here for "A" were compelling and I ended up changing my mind, so I am feeling content with the outcome.

matix, by your own logic, UrbanToronto shouldn't exist at all. We have no right to discuss how buildings look, meet the street, whether the retail is too wide, or too thin, or doesn't have high enough ceilings, or whether they should be taller, or whether they should be ripped down entirely and...

When I was in Hong Kong earlier this year, and not adjusting to the time difference very well, I would end up out on the streets at 5am with my travelling friend. One morning in Kowloon we came across an open bar, the "Hair of the Dog", in the dim morning light, with a few souls still inside. It...

Perfect! I look forward to this building going up - I've always thought that filling that gap was really an important thing for the city, and I look forward to seeing this rise.

Re: Population densities. I think all measurements of population density are problematic, because CMAs are not the most useful measurement for density. If you look at the CMA map for Vancouver, for instance, it includes large mountainous sections to the north which are uninhabitable, as well as...

I'm also in favour of preserving the view. Tall buildings are pretty much everywhere in our city, and I like that, but it's good to have some views appear differently.

That's much larger than I imagined! Without wanting to overstate things, am I really looking at an image from the future of Regent Park? Looks beautiful. I'd love to hear more from Artscape about the proposed programming of the complex. I assume that when they say Tenants will be selected by...

Grin, the Canadian Architect Awards are given specifically to an unrealized project. That's their "niche" within the pantheon of architectural awards. But your point is well taken, from my research on the awards over the years, about half those in the Toronto area never got built (and thank God...

architectsAlliance and Maclennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects were given a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for this project, yesterday.

Teeple Architects won a Canadian Architect "Award of Merit" for their pavilion forming part of this project, yesterday.

Sue, thanks for the contribution. We will love you forever, however, if you pop us a rendering of the proposal.

Maybe some fill and a really tall thin building. Like 89 storeys. And curvy, really curvy.

I always thought that little bit of water was an interesting idea, one that might have looked appealing in renderings, and that had I lived in Toronto then and been paying attention to such things, I might have eagerly anticipated the development around it. I've stood and looked at the result...

That's a nice set of slides. If I compare two slides (28 and 32), it looks like the Arts & Cultural Centre would form the base of a highrise. I wonder if that is still the plan, or if the building would be a standalone.

I still laugh about how they left Glencairn off the maps for the YUS line that are in the stations to indicate the direction of the trains, and had to have a Glencairn Sticker with the name and a dot for the station, that was affixed to all the maps. How incompetent can you be?

I was a bit surprised by the posting and comments at Spacing Montreal about the building, which seemed to focus only on its bulk and height. I think a fine hotel tower in that location, like Four Seasons or Shangri-La, could complement and add to the appreciation of the surrounding bulk of...

junctionist, I agree, really. I think Montreal's smaller scale buildings (rowhouses, three-storey-high residential buildings) are really superior to Toronto's. It's a very mixed story.

Germany and Holland are incredibly difficult places to find corner stores that are open anything like extended hours. I've been thrown into an absolute fury when visiting there because you suddenly need something quite small, and walk forever in the very heart of the city without finding even a...

Here is an article at Spacing Montreal about the new Waldorf-Astoria hotel to be built downtown. Perhaps this little bit of "NY Towers meets RoCP meets Trump" can be the final nail in the Montreal-as-urban-design-sophisticate coffin.

New York, for all its fabulousness, can be weird in some ways. I recall leaving a bar and there was this, like, HUGE notice on the doorway leaving that basically screamed, "This is a RESIDENTIAL neighbourhood, so DO NOT MAKE NOISE as you walk away, and DO NOT walk down [14th Street - don't...