[casaguy]

So sad they had to put this eyesore here at this location.

Pics taken this week.

 

[MetroMan]

I used to be furious about the province putting this here against the wishes of the city and WaterfronToronto.

The more I think about it now though... the Portlands are an industrial wasteland that won't be turned into the gleaming waterfront community envisioned by planners for at least a decade.

By then, we'll have to have solved our energy crisis and this will be removed no doubt.

 

[Tuscani01]

They could have at least made it blue, to blend in with the sky... or green to blend in with grass and trees.

 

[CapitalSeven]

That's possibly the ghastliest thing built in Ontario yet this century. They should name it after Dalton.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

If we're going to have a power station on our waterfront, I want better!

London had it right:

it looks soo nice it makes you wanna use electricity.

 

[Fair Comment]

I used to be furious about the province putting this here against the wishes of the city and WaterfronToronto.
...

Actually, the city approved the plant after getting some concessions about public access and sound dampening. Waterfront Toronto signed-off of the power plant when Robert Fung was chairman. WT never opposed the plant.

 

[simply Dan]

Some pics I took earlier today while on a bike ride of Ontario's newest power plant - ensuring Torontonians can continue to live in limitless air-conditioned bliss all summer long:

Bonus: an image I took of one of the many new concrete plans currently under constuction at the portlands concrete campus (this one will be operated by St. Mary's Cement):

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

Some pics I took earlier today while on a bike ride of Ontario's newest power plant - ensuring Torontonians can continue to live in limitless air-conditioned bliss all summer long:

Not that you enjoy air conditioning at all.

 

[299 bloor call control.]

It'd be incredibly cool if they planted vines to cover up those ghastly blank walls... since their first attempt to break up the facade with OCAD-esque randomly placed windows has failed miserably.

 

[unimaginative2]

That's a great idea, 299. I wish they had made some better effort to beautify the project. That would have taken so much of the wind out of the opponents' sails. There are examples.

A mural might be another option. Get a real talented artist to do it, and maybe the wall of that power plant will be worth as much as that Pittsburgh subway station mural someday.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

It'd be incredibly cool if they planted vines to cover up those ghastly blank walls... since their first attempt to break up the facade with OCAD-esque randomly placed windows has failed miserably.

What's worse is they light that tragedy up at night. I can see the robins egg siding without my glasses on, and I live a good 5km away from it.

 

[MetroMan]

That's a great idea, 299. I wish they had made some better effort to beautify the project. That would have taken so much of the wind out of the opponents' sails. There are examples.

A mural might be another option. Get a real talented artist to do it, and maybe the wall of that power plant will be worth as much as that Pittsburgh subway station mural someday.

Wow.. thanks for that unimaginative:

Building the facility just below ground and planting a park above makes so much sense for a building of this nature going near a major city.

I would go as far as to use the above ground portion as a wind farm. Add a couple of wind turbines on top to power the station rather than using power from the grid.

 

[unimaginative2]

I totally agree with you. It'd be long term thinking for a power plant in an industrial area (the city's cement campus), so the park wouldn't be that well used at first, but in a few decades when the portlands is built out it could be quite popular.

 

[ganjavih]

How about some graffiti to make it more "urban"?

 

[Hydrogen]

When they said an evolving live-work neighbourhood, they really meant work in a big way.