There's always an envious grass-is-always-greener amongst Torontonian architecture wonks. The idea of being a "world class city" has been stoked so much over the years that people forget that other prominent cities have some real turds themselves. In NYC, I can name three off hand; 432 Park (ugly and perpetually broken), the PanAm Building and 375 Pearl. And then there's the 80% of buildings that are middling at best. Hell, even Paris has(had) 1977's Tour Montparnasse, an ugly block of a building that nearly single-handedly caused the city to create height restrictions in the arrondissements for four over decades.