[wolfewood]

Umm...I'm pretty sure one of the overarching goals of urban planning / urban design is to mitigate shade from buildings wherever possible and unsure sun / light for pedestrians.

Yeah but isaidso is a vampire skyscraper fanboy. He hates the sun and loves giant buildings.

 

[whatever]

There's room for both streetwalls and smaller scaled streetscapes in a city the size of Toronto. I don't mind seeing canyons forming along Richmond or Adelaide, and I quite like the existing canyon effects we have along Carlton and Bloor E. But for places like Yonge, Queen W, and even College I would prefer to see the low-rise character respected with development pushed away from the streets.

 

[Waterloo_Guy]

There's room for both streetwalls and smaller scaled streetscapes in a city the size of Toronto. I don't mind seeing canyons forming along Richmond or Adelaide, and I quite like the existing canyon effects we have along Carlton and Bloor E. But for places like Yonge, Queen W, and even College I would prefer to see the low-rise character respected with development pushed away from the streets.

It might be a little late for Yonge.

 

[Towered]

The Joker nightclub should re-open in the podium once the building is finished

 

[interchange42]

Earlier this evening:

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[scamander24]

 

[UrbanAffair]

^Would be interesting to see that shot from even 2 years ago vs spring 2015, when these are mostly topped out. What a difference from a predominantly low and midrise area...

 

[UrbanAffair]

This could go in a bunch of different threads, but I thought it was best suited for this one.

 

[scamander24]

Not a single piece of cladding yet... I'm waiting impatiently for it.

 

[scamander24]

 

[Gphorce]

At this rate it's going to be topped out before we even get a glimpse of cladding!

 

[Transportfan]

Although I don't like surface parking lots downtown, they can be good places to get unobstructed views of the skyline and new buildings going up.

 

[CityPlaceN1]

There's got to be some sort of resentment that landowners on Richmond get to sell out to condo developers while those owners on what at one point was more desirable land on Queen can't. At least not for high density development that's boosted the value of the land on Richmond.

 

[scamander24]

 

[Conrad Black]

I love how this area has become a very urban high density district. Great picture.