Here's a question I've been wondering that I bet no one knows the answer to...
The ground where three main pods sit, was that naturally there or was that a huge man made hill?
Reason I ask is because the Don Valley everywhere else in Toronto just kind of falls off - once. It doesn't have a cliff and then another hill in front of the first big cliff.
In other words, topographically, it would seem more usual that the escalators would descend into the valley from the main entrance building, rather than a bridge across the full depth of the valley to another section of land at the same height and then escalators down to the valley floor.
Unless Moriyama's team found a unique little section where this was naturally occurring that just happened to coincide perfectly with Don Mills & Eglinton.
Here's a topographic map of the section.
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