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    Toronto Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    If you're arguing that the only alibi on behalf of the OP Forum was "nostalgia" and its replacement is "better", then you just don't get it.
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    Toronto Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    Actually, "family friendly waterpark" wouldn't really be that much better, under the circumstances, particularly given the preexisting facilities we're dealing with. Remember what I've said before about Great Wolf Lodge as some kind of Thing That Ate Niagara Falls. Or, for that matter, what...
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    Another thing to remember: not everyone drinks, or at least internalizes "liquid pleasure" as a must-have. And they might still view the issue through the prism of having witnessed bums with liquor bottles on the subway, etc.
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    Ontario Legislative Building Restoration

    True, but it's more like poetic justice. DoFo must be saying: "Eureka! Now we can call it the *Ontario* Congress Centre!"
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    Ontario Legislative Building Restoration

    Well, semi-seriously, I can picture DoFo offering to retrofit the Toronto Congress Centre for legislative purposes. Yeah, Dixon & 27 is the boondocks, but...
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Would the "before" be around 1988/89 or so? That looks like one of those hipster-baiting Black Label wall ads...
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    Toronto TD Terrace (160 Front W) | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG

    As an old-fashioned casual urban architectural tourist of the pre-Y2K free-range sort, here's a bit of "new reality" that saddened me when I passed by the ground floor lobby a week or two ago: how it'd appear that the upper floors are inaccessible to all but passholders. That is, the "full...
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    Lesser recognized buildings in Toronto that you enjoy

    From the curvilinearity to the perforated brick balcony blocks, it owes a fair bit to this https://hiddenarchitecture.net/pedregulho-housing-developmen/
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    Truth be told, back in the first term of Megacity Council a quarter century ago, his father would likewise have been all by his lonesome (Robert Bruce Ford wasn't elected yet)
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Keep in mind that when we're dealing w/circa 1930 as opposed to circa 1960/70/80, there's an element of "excusability" to such loss. (Maybe what's more disheartening is how we've lost so much of what these "beautiful structures" were lost on behalf of, robbing Toronto of a more cohesive "Deco...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    DoFo probably, in his heart: "let 'em burn. Career colleges are the way to go"
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    You could go back to the future w/"Vincent". Or be perverse w/"Crossways".
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Call it "Rockwell Square", then
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Hey, why not bring back an old idea and call it "Toronto Life Square". Not after the magazine, mind you; but simply an expression of how this is where "Toronto life" takes place. Sort of like how the CN Tower became "Canada's National Tower". ;-)
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Our version of Berri-UQAM?

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