khris
Senior Member
I second that!
Well you know, if over the next 1000 years Toronto keeps filling in the lakefront .... Buffalo & Toronto would be a single city!
/\ We must, however, remember what happens when one tries to preserve a bygone era. These buildings don't block the skyline, but instead expand it and increase its density.
Telus is on the left (far side) and MSL is on the right (near side). MLS is two buildings but the podium is what is currently under construction which joins the two buildings together.
You might as well use the same argument to demolish the Royal York on behalf of something bigger, you know...
These buildings don't block the skyline, but instead expand it and increase its density.
/\ We must, however, remember what happens when one tries to preserve a bygone era. These buildings don't block the skyline, but instead expand it and increase its density.
Except that isn't the same argument at all.
How many people actually go out into the lake to see the skyline? Far more people see the Royal York from Union Station and that will never change.
Even if, as you claim, "far more people" see it from Union Station, it isn't a view with mythos--from that perspective, the Royal York's just an overwhelming hulk of 1920s hotel architecture.
And then there's the matter of the view from the Gardiner--oh yeah, forgot, we might not have that to kick around much longer, either...
Above all, remember that I'm responding to "We must, however, remember what happens when one tries to preserve a bygone era". For the sake of argument, wouldn't even clinging to the Royal York *at all*, never mind its mere skyline view, embody that so-called undesirable preservation of "a bygone era"? Why not rip it down, then, and replace it with a 100-storey Zaha Hadid tour de force? A nice, high-style way to "expand and increase the density" of the skyline, etc...
What happens?