JMSRead
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Is there anything stopping the city from extending the elevated park further east?
Tree Number 1 / Photo 1 is a Dawn Redwood? Of considerable size when transplanted?Just three photos here, and not of the buildings, current or in progress.......
But rather, the trees.
Unfortunate news in respect of the phase 1 trees on the Bay Street flank.
The super expensive conifer...........
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Is in deep trouble. While it may yet recover.............die-back of over 50% is pretty grim for a prognosis.
Interestingly, the smaller trees of the same species are doing ok.
So this may be an issue of lack of urban tolerance to the conditions; but it may also be the tree absorbing those conditions having likely had its roots cut way back in order to transplant it.
While it isn't the species I would have chosen for this location, and I noted the risk at the time; I might consider (were it my choice), getting a smaller one, roots in tact as a replacement.
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Speaking of trees in trouble, you've heard me harp before that Birch Trees are not appropriate to tough urban locations.............
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I think they're almost all goners. Not surprising.
By contrast..........look at these:
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Correct species choice matters.
Tree Number 1 / Photo 1 is a Dawn Redwood? Of considerable size when transplanted?
It certainly is a 'standout building' but I am not sure buildings 'deserve' anything. The best buildings fit into their local environment and even make it better - not sure that by being taller would make it fit in any better or more beautiful. I think it, and its new twin, fit in very well as they are and certainly raise the standard of architecture and construction in this area.View attachment 403779
This building is such a standout it easily competes with our classic bank buildings. It ‘deserved’ to be taller if you ask me.
Definitely agree with what you’re saying and I couldn’t quite articulate it, hence the quote around deserve.It certainly is a 'standout building' but I am not sure buildings 'deserve' anything. The best buildings fit into their local environment and even make it better - not sure that by being taller would make it fit in any better or more beautiful. I think it, and its new twin, fit in very well as they are and certainly raise the standard of architecture and construction in this area.
Yes, one could make the CIBC Twins more visible if some of the less 'deserving' buildings that block views of it/them were demolished too :->Definitely agree with what you’re saying and I couldn’t quite articulate it, hence the quote around deserve.
I more so meant from a skyline perspective I’d like to see this beauty from more angles for longer and height would have helped with that.
The second tower (which is taller than the first, if only slightly) will nicely fill the gap between L Tower and Brookfield Place, enhancing the skyline from the above perspective.View attachment 403779
This building is such a standout it easily competes with our classic bank buildings. It ‘deserved’ to be taller if you ask me.