Recent content by adHominem

It drives me insane that the ground-floor columns don't line up with the fins, though.

If we shouldn't build tall here, we shouldn't build tall anywhere. It's right next door to a heavy rail station from which you can get downtown in ten minutes and not far from another station currently under construction, it's a short walk from two subway stations, two streetcar lines and a...

Draper Parkette (completed) has just the one. The Wellington Cat Promenade (leading to King, not started) is supposed to have a bunch. 😸

The press release explicitly says the LRT stations will open "along with the rest of the line at a later date", so no, the LRT opening on the 16 seems very, very unlikely.

I don't think I could ever fully relax in a spa that looks like a place John Wick is about to have a gunfight in.

Well, here's hoping the scotiabank arena collapses on thursday evening then

Unless I mistake your meaning, there is a signalized crossing at Davenport Rd and Caledonia Park Rd, so it's part of the way there at least.

I assume it's Neom, the horrible Saudi Arabian vaporware planned city.

I've definitely seen lineups out the door for the TD Centre in past years, as well as huge waits for other marquee sites like RC Harris or the Don Jail. It's not new, though attendance probably took a dip after the pandemic started; perhaps it's just catching up to 2019 levels now.

Dear diary: today I learned there's a "Mike Meyers Drive"

It's incoherent and deeply ugly and each choice of materials is worse than the last. I think the only thing I really like about it is the choice of typeface for "bloor ci". What a missed opportunity.

If memory serves the path went in when they eliminated the Dufferin jog and extended the rail bridge; the park space on either side went in as part of the adjacent developments. I don't know if it was ever formally "opened" or if the fences just fell down while we wait forever for Metrolinx to...

Cladding:

"iconic"

Shoring continues and there was a crane base in place when I walked by this morning.