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    Roads: Gardiner Expressway catch-all, incl. Hybrid Design (2015-onwards)

    A cedar ceiling would be nice for the Gardiner
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT: Mount Pleasant Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | NORR

    It's nice to see characterful old buildings get preserved as facades - but why do the new buildings need to be completely devoid of any features altogether... couldn't the white cladding at least have had some visible relief pattern or something? These stations would make perfect billboards...
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    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Line: Queen-Spadina Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

    It seems like a no brainer to locate density on on top of a subway station in the downtown core (the entire Yonge line south of Rosedale station, for example). Is it clear why these two sites aren't being developed with higher-density buildings on top?
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    Toronto Toronto | The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini

    This whole place looks a bit joyless & grim. Like what the Eaton Centre might look like in the Upside Down.
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    Toronto Toronto | 171-175 Lowther Avenue | 44.85m | 11s | Raleigh Residences | Gabriel Fain Architects

    An ersatz Uno Prii-inspired tower randomly emerges from a disjointed, featureless, 3-storey podium (groan) of brick masonry. This being 2023, the latter is punctured by predictably awkward openings of various shapes and sizes, like an infant's box puzzle. I suppose this mashup design is meant...
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    Toronto Toronto | Concord Canada House | 231.97m | 74s | Concord Adex | Arcadis

    Just what this city needed - more enormous twin towers that look like they were designed by accountants
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    Here is the text of the former mayors' letter: Dear Mayor and City Councillors, We, former Mayors of Toronto, request you to re-consider the decision to re name Dundas Street. We question the interpretation of the research leading to that decision and the practicality of carrying it out...
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    The point of this is to make a big spectacle of expunging a white man from the public sphere so unless you can find someone named Dundas who is BIPOC, LGBTQ or in some other way NOT a white or a cisgendered male, it's a non-starter. My guess is the street will be renamed by an unelected...
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    Toronto Toronto | 294 Sherbourne | 65.45m | 20s | MPI Group | superkül

    They're knocking down half of 300 Sherbourne for the courtyard but other than that it's a pretty exciting proposal. Love the masonry tower
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    Toronto Toronto | 399 Yonge | 252.3m | 75s | Capital Developments | Teeple Architects

    75 more storeys of meh to add to the rest of the meh. 🤷‍♂️
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    Toronto Toronto | 475 Yonge Street | 255.76m | 78s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle

    II guess this is an improvement on the Courtyard Marriott but I'm not sure this will do much to reinvigorate Yonge Street as a vibrant retail zone.
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    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Line: Queen-Spadina Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

    I assume the facade of the north-east corner is being restored and incorporated into any new development atop the station? If not, this is a big loss - much bigger than Osgood Hall's trees imo.
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    Toronto Toronto | East Harbour | 214.2m | 65s | Cadillac Fairview | Adamson

    Sad to see this being demolished... Would rather see this than yet more junkspace cityplace.
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    Toronto Toronto | Concord Park Place: Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Community Centre | 18.9m | 4s | City of Toronto | MJMA

    Nobody fought and/or won it though. It was "purchased" by a series of treaties. Toronto sits on the "traditional territories" of the Anishinaabeg, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa but people claiming ancestry in those groups do not "own" the land. They negotiated for certain...
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    Toronto Toronto | Toronto Island Park Master Plan | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto

    The area I'm concerned about is between the restored portion of Gibraltar Point and Hanlans... Immediately SSW of where the red oval is down to Gibraltar Pt... that area is in pretty rough shape since last summer.
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    Toronto Toronto | Toronto Island Park Master Plan | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto

    I was out at the island - the erosion between the new, restored beach and the diminished Hanlan's has gotten much worse. Is there any intention of the City or TRCA to continue the restoration of the south shore of the island? I've looked online but cant find anyhting... Maybe the plan is for...
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    Toronto Toronto | 505 Parliament | 36.62m | 10s | Streetwise | RAW Design

    Please give a comparable example of where a 10-storey, mid-block building with entirely opaque side walls was approved on a commercial street with a fine-grain 3-storey streetscape? Not saying it hasn't happened - just thought you might enlighten me so I wont "sound cloistered" Indeed. The...
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    Toronto U of T: Faculty of Medicine Building Expansion | ?m | ?s | U of T | MVRDV

    MVRDV exciting! When do we get to see the design?
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    Caledon Toronto | SMVS Temple Caledon | 16.31m | 1s | SMVS Canada | Battaglia Associates Inc

    I suppose the 413 will be supplying all the cars to fill that parking lot? A harbinger of what's to come for the green belt...
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    What really rankles here is that were are being lied to by our elected politicians about easily researchable facts. Retiring a street name for some cheap symbolism and some political points is embarrassing - but willful blindness to (and whitewashing of) real facts and historical context is...

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