[adma]

There are vast swaths of self-congratulatory, anal-retentive, bourgeois Tudoresqueness along the Kingsway that could quite easily be taken out in the dead of night by someone driving a huge truck with a wrecking-ball mounted on the back - swinging randomly to right and to left ... BAM!! BOOM!! CRASH!! The world would be a much better place for it. Then, once the clearcutting is done, any number of our good local architects could be set loose to rebuild.

Well, as long as said "self-congratulatory, anal-retentive, bourgeois Tudoresqueness" was built at any time over the last 15 years.

When it comes to that built in the 20s and 30s and 40s, though, you be asking for a hatchet imbedded in your skull.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Bloor and Royal York Road, the shopping district for the Kingsway:

 

[Urban Shocker]

adma: To anyone who has ventured inside a Tudor house, the Kingsway Tudoresqueness of the inter-war years and the Tudoresqueness of the past 15 years ( when 905's fauxmongers pause from throwing up retreads of French Chateau to build it, that is ... ) are equally yawn-inducingly comfortably middle class and sterile, surely?

The machine-cut, symmetrically placed, identically-proportioned Ye Olde Woode Beams slapped onto the exteriors of such buildings are particularly depressing parodies of a lively original style, whatever age produces them.

 

[flar]

This retail strip looks neat:

 

[Conrad Black]

Thanks for the archive shots.

 

[kram74]

i finally got my pictures back up