[torontologist]

And it's bad faux-brick precast at that... the vertical "mortar" is thicker than the horizontal, which makes it look like a black and white polka dot facade from a distance.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Definitely faux brick, it does not look like polka dots though. Maybe it's bad quality, but I am happy to see a darker tone being used. Not sure how it will look in the end. I have low expectations, which are currently being exceeded.

 

[interchange42]

Yesterday from a nearby cultural institution:

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[AlvinofDiaspar]

OT - but the blue titanium is keeping very well! Point to remember as an "exotic" cladding material.

AoD

 

[interchange42]

From earlier this evening:

This is why it's called Dragon Condos: the art at the streetcar stop. Hadn't made the connection before!

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[someMidTowner]

This is why it's called Dragon Condos: the art at the streetcar stop. Hadn't made the connection before!

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I thought it was named for its proximity to Dragon Mall?

 

[neuhaus]

There are a lot of dragon references in Chinatown, but I too thought because it is next door to the Dragon Mall, and was once a part of it, is named after it.

 

[Armour]

Maybe someone important to this project has dragon breath?

 

[ProjectEnd]

September 9, 2015

 

[urbandreamer]

I love Year of the Dragon women but this dragon's brick veneer lipstick is not turning me on:

However, the idea that one day Spadina could be a jagged little avenue of between 3 and 10 storeys is marriage material.

 

[ksun]

I hope the Chinatown Centre will be redevelopment some day. I honestly don't know who actually go there, ever, maybe except those old immigrants over 55 years old. It looks so 1990.

 

[greenleaf]

I hope the Chinatown Centre will be redevelopment some day. I honestly don't know who actually go there, ever, maybe except those old immigrants over 55 years old. It looks so 1990.

Not every development of every part of the city must cater to the under 30 set you know.

 

[junctionist]

It's best to appeal to the younger demographics since they have disposable income.

 

[ksun]

Not every development of every part of the city must cater to the under 30 set you know.

well easy for you to say but what will happen when those 55+ are dead or too old to walk in 15 years? Look at the new business in Chinatown. Nothing targets the old immigrants. The old ones are increasingly being replaced. The demographic is changing, of course the business model should too, otherswise they go broke.

 

[urbandreamer]

Spadina's already turning into the new Queen West. Add another 10,000 residents and it'll become a trendy restaurant row unaffordable to its aging current demographic. Kensington Market will become just another boring outdoor shopping mall--maybe it's already really the new Yorkville?--with midrises housing yuppie condoKIDS.