adHominem
Senior Member
The Commerce Court observation deck! So jealous.
This morning, having entered through the restored doors of the Concourse Building, executives and employees of Oxford Properties and EY Canada gathered in the lobby of their new Richmond Adelaide Centre office tower, along with some of the architects and planners who made the day's opening celebrations possible.
Alex B—as much as I admire his writing—in no way proves his contention that Oxford's claim that it was unable to retain the Concourse Building's guts, was "bunk". He doesn't even try to prove it, he just states he thinks that Oxford could have saved it, not detailing the years it sat emptying of tenants, nor the options that were considered and which made no economic sense to anyone.
Maybe every cramped and outdated office could have made a perfect writer's garret (except for writers confined to mobility devices which can't ascend stairs, and therefore wouldn't be able to use the restrooms), but it appears there weren't 16 storeys worth of writers clamouring for their Concourse square footage.
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I think both the Globe and Star are failing us on their opinion/editorial pieces. They almost let anyone write b.s. as long as it says Opinion or Editorial at the top of the page. This does not allow them to publish half truth's or outright omission of facts.
At least there should be some fact checking before it is published. If not these stories become the "fake news" that can be re-tweeted as fact even though they are 100% fiction.
Actually, Alex Bozikovic is the G&M's architectural critic. A bit different from what you term "opinion/editorial pieces".
And somehow, the fact that nobody sought to notice or post the piece in this thread until I did; and my perfectly non-editorializing FYI posting met with, at most, passing dismissal/indifference--even a couple of years ago, it wouldn't have fallen this flat--maybe that's a sign to, well, give up a certain ghost. Essentially, the UT Buildings Forum has become a development-groupie ghetto--when we come to the point where a poster starts dismissing professional newspaper architectural criticism as "fake news", we've crossed a threshold into write-off territory...