Now that the scaffold is down from the Soldiers' Tower at U of T, I can show you what the view looked like when you could touch the top of the pinnacles (now all rebuilt).

This is huge Bravo to this team for proposing this at this location. I am liking that it is not all glass, liking the colour, the playfulness, the uniqueness. I love the trees on the roof gardens.

Couldn't believe this when I read about it on Twitter earlier today. I looked on the way home and yep, the Tower is officially defaced. Blech.

It would have been more interesting if Walnut Hall could have been retained and incorporated here. Project is better than OK but as Quentinqat observes it is a whole lot like the Dickinson Maisonettes being demolished only a few blocks away...that was my first impression too.

Fourth option looks weird, others look boring to me. The fourth has some urban attitude though, after some more development it could be cool. So #4.

looks like a huge improvement. yeah streets that connect

I would not describe this makeover as exciting, looks like a new handrail and a bunch of plopped random furniture

I am thinking this could be kind of awesome. One day it will be dusty denty and tired and people will say what were they thinking but in the meantime it is a welcome relief from conformity, "transitional" furniture and the regular boring shit you see when you are walking around this town.

Cities around the world use a working mix of every kind of transit talked about and they all have issues over time and they can all work. I'm happy to see a line along Eglinton is actually going to be built, though I didn't mind its earlier incarnation being partly exposed and going farther and...

Very interesting, there's a lot of density, but also texture, originality. You could actually put some insulation in the walls, and work with the climate more than is usual in the Toronto condo world. Stopped for a coffee in the Distillery District the other day and while it is imperfect, it's...

Looks fantastic.

Liked it a lot better when the project had design integrity. The new railings look awful, cheap, and have little relation to anything else.

I like that they are all sort of the same but different. The public infrastructure is made visible.

I too would rather see a skinnier, rather slicker tower, and 258 restored.

For that much money the music for the ad has to go upscale and not stop in the middle.

gorgeous, what a nice gateway to York University

The angled bit looks fantastic from Queen, I think this project will turn out nicely.

I think I like aA's version better, and TD better than that.

I doubt that the reflections in the glass are going to look anything like that from Citibank place.

I think this looks fantastic, or it will when it is new before it gets dirty and looks dated, at which point it won't look fantastic. So long as we continue to starve the TTC and our City of funding, we will continue to have broken streets and dirty subway stations. I think Rob Ford will...