Well, no, it's not just "pop it out". Those look like they're four-sided structural glazed, so it's actually a bit of a process to hack them out, clean up the glass, flip it, and reglaze. Not the kind of thing you want to do any more than you absolutely have to. And I'd be more worried if the...

I'll grant that where you do save on labour isn't so much on the rate being paid out to workers, but on all of the extra headaches that come with trying to do anything in the city where staging room is a constant battle, you're struggling to move materials, getting access to the work involves...

The labour isn't really cheaper. Tons of guys working in Toronto are coming in from Hamilton and Niagara Falls. And most of the building trades are covered under provincial agreements anyway

Does anyone know if that's the old Integro material, or is it a sample from a new supplier? The bunk looks like Integro's, and it looks like the Integro pig ears and chicken head? Hard to see in the photos

Every station has back of house washrooms for employees. The doors are marked with pink/blue circles near the top. Now that we have timed fares I think it's less important to have washrooms at every station. With very few exceptions (Castle Frank?) you can just leave the station and use a...

Surely there has to be some thickness of concrete that would allow for that substation to be moved into the basement of a new tower

Pfft! No way! Oh boy. Can't wait to sit back and watch the circus come to town. If the reciever wanted to torpedo the project they could've just come out and said so.

Higher than you think, given the engineered lifespans of components within those cladding systems. Of course, that's not to say that the replacements will be better. Take Aura, then imagine the bottom two-thirds of Aura being wrapped in EIFS.

I know at least some of the former fabricator's material from a different job is to be released from that yard shortly. I don't know if the material for this one was a part of that settlement, but the timing seems to be more than coincidental

There we go, looks like they're pouring the first floor of the slanted setback

I guess it'll be a math question for everyone involved. If the storage guys want to hold out for the whole amount they may end up getting nothing but the scrap value. If Westbank et al (they're not the only ones with material there) don't pay the storage guys they end up having to re-tender it...

As far as I know, a large quantity of curtainwall for this is still sitting in storage amidst a payment dispute over the fabricator's bankruptcy. Not going to be any signs of curtainwall here until that eventually gets resolved

I wonder what the economic impact of moving the helipad would be. Raising it 20 storeys would raise the development ceiling for everything in the approach path by 20 storeys, no?

No, I don't mean the overflow area south of Commissioners. That one appears to be almost done. There's a second area north of Commissioners, west of the riverbed that appears to be getting filled. Edit: Here's a photo of what I mean. The overflow is in the top left, and the other wetland in...

I think they've also started flooding the wetland north of Commissioners and west of the riverbed.

I could be wrong, but I believe the white panels shrink in width as it goes up, which accounts for some of the variance in the windows It kinda works in context. I like that it looks somewhat solid, and doesn't read as another glass box. I like the lack of balconies. It plays off of the Ryerson...

That's an old photo. The hole was there when I drove by it a couple weeks ago. I thought I saw some machinery in there, but could be wrong

That's more likely to happen with the province in control. The city was headed in the direction of scrapping the DVP/Gardiner connection

Let's go further. The garage gets replaced with a below grade exhibition space devoted to showcasing the history and contributions of Indigenous peoples to Toronto's history. Include an above ground pavilion (could be smaller, even just display windows) to highlight some present day Indigenous...

Downie Wenjack Square. Replace the grey pavers with checkerboard floors. Big upgrade to the stage. Put a giant tophat with a feather in it at the Yonge/Dundas corner. Instant landmark. Celebrates the current cultural norms. Who would possibly oppose it?