WT Mission Statement on Design Excellence:

Integrated design combines form and function to make our city better and more beautiful. To help achieve and uphold our standards for design excellence, we host international design competitions and work with some of the most respected planners, architects, designers and landscape architects in the world.

Often the best in the world are already based here in Toronto. When they are not, they partner with our outstanding local firms to help us create our new waterfront communities. By working with the world’s top design talent, we are establishing a new gold standard for waterfront revitalization.

To help guide our work and that of our design partners, we established the Waterfront Design Review Panel in 2005. The Panel is an independent body reviews all projects in the waterfront area and provides feedback and recommendations to our designers.

Achieving excellence is a key objective as we design public spaces and parks for our new waterfront neighbourhoods. . Signature details like the water’s edge promenade’s maple leaf granite mosaic, custom street lamps and benches, and parks like Canada’s Sugar Beach play an important role in creating an enhanced quality of place along our waterfront. Our parks and public realm set the tone for our new neighbourhoods and inspire our development partners to follow suite when designing their projects.


http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/...e/waterfronthome/our-vision/design excellence

Did their development partner follow suite? Is this what the most respected architects and designers will suffice themselves with?

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Remember this?

Came across Diamond Schmitt's design for the Waterfront Innovation Centre:

http://backstage.worldarchitecturenews.com/wanawards/project/dgs-dgg/?source=sector&selection=all

Pictures courtesy of World Architecture News:

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Has anybody heard back if you emailed members of the design review panel? I have not. WaterfrontTO isn't commenting other than saying that the city owns the land and that they're leasing it to Menkes.
 
Boy, near total agreement on this UT site - that's got to be a first. Does anyone in authority listen in, or even care what gets voiced here ?
 

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