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  1. Skyhighzz

    Toronto Toronto | 9 Shortt Street | 136.5m | 41s | CreateTO | Montgomery Sisam

    Can we talk about all the downtown T.O. parking lots (way too many) who could use this type of smart, gorgeous varicoloured development. The core of Toronto desperately needs this.
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    Toronto Union Park | 303.33m | 71s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini

    It doesn’t matter if it’s getting built or not getting built. The point of having the brazen audacity to post this second-rate real life design at a real point in time for all to see, should be admonished a million times over. Shame them again & again. Hopefully Oxford Properties don’t...
  3. Skyhighzz

    Toronto Union Park | 303.33m | 71s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini

    Criticism on anything substandard built in city especially in prime location, bumped or not, re-designed or not, can only bring about better changes.
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    Toronto Union Park | 303.33m | 71s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini

    This is STILL one of the worst, most pitiful downgrades in design that I’ve ever seen here in recent years. Everything about it; the 2 incredibly basic boring smaller towers & the surrounding second rate, awkward park & public space, is substandard. Oxford Properties dropped the ball big time...
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    Toronto Toronto | The United BLDG | 184.85m | 54s | Davpart | B+H

    Such an improvement on the initial bad design. They could have even gone further with a more stunning exterior length/roof of structure. Still a mystery what the overall colour scheme will look like. The renderings are still that vague.
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    Toronto Toronto | Concord Sky | 300.2m | 85s | Concord Adex | Kohn Pedersen Fox

    I hope the WHITE vertical strip pattern stands out more when completed than the dreaded … other colour(s). That’s my only hope for this not boring tower design that I quite like.
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    Toronto Toronto | 2346 Yonge Street | 179.97m | 54s | Diamond Corp | CGL Architects

    Leave it up to perennial fiscal tightwads Diamond Corp. to not follow the hopeful new trend in T.O. & stick with outmoded obsolete boring grey. Good job.
  8. Skyhighzz

    Toronto Toronto | U of T: Centre for Civilizations, Cultures, and Cities | ?m | 6s | U of T | DS + R

    Scale & balance has improved but taking fiscal shortcuts AGAIN with too much grey. More orange-less grey please.
  9. Skyhighzz

    Toronto Toronto | 23 Toronto Street | 299.04m | 88s | Goband Investment | SvN

    Yes I get it. But building codes from the province can’t be reversed & changed if municipalities pushed, fought, went to court for that change? Of course it can. Zoning bi-laws once set in cement have seen many changes recently. It just takes leadership. Exterior design & material used (colour...
  10. Skyhighzz

    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    I think it looks really nice considering all the backlash. The Marina is beautiful with indigenous cultural pavilions, steps & nice seating areas. Brigantine Cove is appealing & serene. The main beach area is fine, nothing special. The stone/rock’s water’s edge area is cool & compliments the...
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    Toronto Toronto | 23 Toronto Street | 299.04m | 88s | Goband Investment | SvN

    And that’s set in stone somewhere? “City precluded from imposing aesthetic requirements” Well, it should be. Things change, should change. This will too sooner than later. More input from the city planning staff (DRP) & hopefully a new appointed “City Architect” position being voted on upcoming...
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    Toronto Toronto | 23 Toronto Street | 299.04m | 88s | Goband Investment | SvN

    A big fat NO to GoBand Development & SVN arch. Just scraping the bottom of the barrel here for amusement, but I can live with the ordinary design, but the GREY makes it an atrocious, cheap, thoughtless, substandard endeavour with zero regard for Toronto as a city & it’s future skyline. This is a...
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    Toronto Toronto | Q Tower | 197.4m | 59s | Lifetime | Wallman

    So it’s dark grey & black now? It’s better than previous, breaks up the monotonous ultra boring colour scheme of all those xerox’d ice water condos.
  14. Skyhighzz

    Toronto Toronto | Concord Canada House | 231.97m | 74s | Concord Adex | Arcadis

    I don’t think it does at all. Just fills in space. …Oomph” compared to where? Looks like there’s a big spill stain on exterior & it doesn’t look intentional. Yikes. Wasn’t there supposed to be colour, art markings on both sides of building. Where’d that go? It’s the only thing positive I took...
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    Toronto Toronto | The Bend (NW Block) | 177.8m | 53s | 3C Lakeshore | COBE Architects

    I don’t mind the design element here. It’s not boring. Should be upgraded, hopefully bolder, via DRP & with time- 2nd rendering. But the colour on all these structures is just dull & sterile. More vibrancy & brightness please.
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    Toronto Toronto | Aqualuna at Bayside | 61.87m | 18s | Tridel | 3XN

    It’s not just the design but it’s the gorgeous copper tone that this city is dying for. Hopefully it starts a trend. The Danish architects get it. Will the locals catch on⁉️ Authentic design + colour is the driving factor in good, exciting architecture imo. And no city needs it more than this one.
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    Toronto Toronto | Pinnacle One Yonge | 351.85m | 106s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

    I don’t get why so many love the look & design of this tower so much. The height? The roof? It’s maybe a more elevated status quo form but very familiar still. Colour scheme is on the bland side. If this structure had significant shades of gold, amber etc in its facade, but Toronto never does...
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    Toronto Love Park | 3m | 1s | City of Toronto | CCxA

    Love Park is cool, gorgeous & chic on a global universal level designed by the excellent Claude Cormier. So glad it was built. Toronto absolutely needed the cool aesthetic upgrade w LP & Berczy. This park should be full of people & no doubt it will be. But more beautiful parks like this one also...
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    Toronto Toronto | Pinnacle One Yonge | 351.85m | 106s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

    Do not end up looking grey. Do not end up looking grey. Do not end up looking grey. Supertalls should be a cultural vibrant magnet. Not a tall grey thingy.

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