This is embarrassing for the the architect, the developer, and city planning whose policies put us in this situation. redo, start over, this is dumb. Ugh.

"Among the adjustments made to the building design were setting its average height to 33.6 metres across its three roofs, a reduction of more than five metres from the original proposal. The tallest portion of the building to the north of the site will now have a height of 35 metres, with the...

I appreciate the update/correction!

The retail on the corner building has been closed for ages due to safety reasons. If the interiors are in such bad structural shape, a facade may be its only hope, no?

Love everything but find the giant planters (and possibly an arcade?) a horrendous choice for Spadina frontage. Keep the fine grain retail, somehow please. eta: it appears there is patio space along spadina. Still doesn’t explain the arcade to me.

Very cool. I hope this flies through the approval process.

I like the texture. Turn that gray to black though, and then we’ll be cooking.

Okay I get that @concrete_and_light but maybe if that is the case this shouldn’t be a food hall in this way. In an effort to monetize every square inch down here, whoever is developing this is creating a space where there is no there there. What if this space had retail/commercial around it...

I mean, sure why not. This is weird and I like that. This can work but unclear to me why the underground portion wouldn’t be more open to the elements.

Aka ”Kingsett offered us some money but now we’re gonna throw this out there a while until we end up just selling to Kingsett.”

Context is more than what buildings literally exist next to a proposed building though, right? There’s more to this than massing. Explanations of why buildings can’t be built in places using this type of narrow definition (what built form exists) don't cut it, in my opinion. Why would a...

Resorting to this kind of boring rhetoric just shows me you don’t have a leg to stand on. Do you know where I live?

There is no good reason to keep this site low rise. If one wants to argue that context is important, well then. Context is important. This building is literally on the subway line. we should utilize this asset. It could not get any closer. There are high rise buildings near this site. There is...

This looks real nice in person.

Correct.

From a couple days ago

This will have a pretty iconic/highly visible view from Yonge St looking across the Square. The tower looks okay to me, hilarious podium though. Is it so bad it swings back around to good again? (No.)

All quiet this afternoon. This building will create much needed shade on hot days like today.

oooh, some flame balls for your first posts. We need more housing of all kinds as far as I can tell. Every time the police forcibly remove people from living in tents because the city/province/feds will not help build enough housing is what is dystopian. We are already living in it. It is...

Literally no one: Developer: let’s have an urban living room! (I absolute hate the Spadina side ground floor of this so much.)