[ProjectEnd]

The incompetence on this thing is mind boggling. A large, public retail entrance at Yonge and College, some of the best real estate in the city. Also apparently the perfect place for a heavy drop ceiling, a ton of grey spandrel and several exhaust louvers.

What an embarrassment.

 

[ADRM]

excessive and "complicating" hydro lines along King, and Queen Street West

These are one of the unique features of that part of the city, and I've had a number of different guests from out of town take pictures of them specifically because of their perceived uniqueness.

 

[Automation Gallery]

These are one of the unique features of that part of the city, and I've had a number of different guests from out of town take pictures of them specifically because of their perceived uniqueness.

Oh come on they go back home and laugh about it, it's not normal to have an infrastructure as messy with overhead wires, transformers and wooden poles in many parts of the world

 

[ADRM]

Oh come on they go back home and laugh about it, it's not normal to have an infrastructure as messy with overhead wires, transformers and wooden poles in many parts of the world

Maybe yours do, but love and adoration for all things clean, perfect, and sanitized over a little bit of controlled chaos is certainly not universal. Give me the grit of Kensington over the lifeless Southcore any day of the week.

But I'm sure we can all agree that our visitors would think that Yonge and College entrance is horrendous.

 

[interchange42]

It would be great if the wires could be buried, I want them buried too, but if it's all that people see when they visit the city, they're only seeing the surface and are blind to what makes Toronto a great place to live. Sucks for them, but boohoo, oh well. And perceiving of Toronto as "desolate"? What kind of hopeless vapidity is that? Yes, there are a ton of little things to fix in this city, but there's way more that's good and engaging here than there are naked wires and leftover surface parking lots to bring it down. This frontier town is still getting things polished-up, but there's so much going on here that the bellyaching about the surmountable annoyances seems more than a little precious.

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[Benito]

More of the desk balcony glass up today. Still no white glass.

 

[kotsy]

I hadn't even realized before but the balconies are already starting to have an impact from their underside paint.

 

[Logan]

Toronto by Nazar Leskiw, on Flickr

 

[old boy]

What an impressive shot, and it doesn't even take in the main downtown.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

These are one of the unique features of that part of the city, and I've had a number of different guests from out of town take pictures of them specifically because of their perceived uniqueness.

Agreed. In art school there was a running joke about including all the hydro and street car wires in our work. That people eat it up. I have to say it worked in critiques and it definitely sells.

 

[Bogtrotter]

In Denis Villeneuve's movie Enemy the streetcar wires are shown as a sinister visual clue to the ending and meaning of the film.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[steveve]

Today:

Regardless of whether you have a harness, this must be a nerve-racking scaffolding to be on! :

 

[Benito]

Still waiting on white glass for the balconies.

 

[Edward Skira]