alklay
Senior Member
I want what US is smoking!!!
Tewder, let's get this clear, I have never suggested maintaining the area as a museum.
Fascinating that words such as "appropriate" and "reasonable" bother you so much, [...]What is so wrong with such terms?
One can turn this around and ask: are you believer in the unreasonable or a promoter of the inappropriate? One would hope not.
As to subjective points of view, you're not trying to suggest that you have the objective, accurate and singularly correct view as to what is proper development for the area (or is it a case of anything goes because you like it)?
...because like the word 'moral' they are devoid of tangible meaning. They are subjective concepts, not objective ones. Case in point: what you feel is appropriate and what I feel is appropriate for the Distillery site are two completely different things."
I'm sure to some people, I am....but that's not my point. I am a believer in, and promoter of, what I think works for the site in terms of new building design, aesthetics, urban planning etc.
And no, I don't think my opinion is better or more informed than yours. My opinion is simply a reflection of what I'd like to see there.
Ah, but notice that my more pertinent "significant local building/site" reference point was not the TD Centre, but what the TD bank pavilion replaced, i.e. Carrere & Hastings' Bank of Toronto.The pattern of attempting to link significant local buildings ( Union Station, the TD Centre, Old City Hall ) and sites ( Fort York ) to the hulking, windowless, disused, brick box of Rack House 'M' in order to create the impression of interchangeability continues ... and continues not to convince.
No, words like "appropriate" and "reasonable" do not lack tangible meaning in how they are being utilized here; in fact their use is context-specific. Their use is not being employed as means to stating objective facts, but rather, they are used in a subjective manner..
Part of the original purpose for establishing the Distillery District was to maintain the original stock of buildings found in that area, and to find new uses for them. Present redevelopment plans call for the demolition of a number of these original buildings.
But if you dislike these specific words and how they are being used, maybe you should stay away from terms like "respectful" and "sympathetic," as they, too, could be construed as taking an objective stance..
It still require some explanation as to how a nearly forty storey modernist tower will be "sympathetic" to the surrounding one and two storey brown-brick buildings across the laneway.
Different people will have different points of view as to what's right and what's not. You might have all the beliefs in the world as to what works and so on, but you fall into the trap you accused me of earlier. What works for you may not work for others.