Recent content by alklay

I do not want to come across as a Toronto elitist....but please please please, can we have posts about Hamilton, Waterloo and other Golden Horseshoe places, on a separate page? Waterloo is not "Urban Toronto" or even the GTA. I am not sure why everything is mixed all together. It would...

The street wall of glass (and glass broken up by pre-cast) looks particularly terrible.

It is really hard to believe how good (great) this cladding is. In Toronto no yet!!! This is said often for much lesser buildings in this city, but this building will be a landmark. Toronto's best residential skyscraper! There, I said it.

I am loving the attention to details and the design work in the towers. Not only a positive for the area but for the city as a whole (for which "details" and decent streetscaping does not come easily).

This new building is, well, really ugly. Amazingly so. It has all the charm of a 1970's cheap inner suburb office building.

Well this is Niagara Falls, so we know one thing.......it will never get built. ;)

I am not sure the foot traffic in the area can support a food court of this size and with all these slightly pricier options. This scale and collection of venders seems more suited to crowds that would exist at Eaton Centre or Union Station, not in this relatively quite area. I hope that I am...

This looks like they took one piece of the giant egg beater that sits at 1 Yonge and just moved it down the street.

This is so bad...it's bad.

I would love to see a separate thread for Hamilton (heck, its not even in the GTA. I do not know why their developments are in a thread concerning "urban Toronto."). Maybe a thread about the rest of Ontario, so it can include places like London etc.

I am not sure why we are arguing whether rust coloured aluminum will look good or not or whether it will be value-engineered, because we kind of know the answer: aluminum hardly ever looks good and the very choice of material has already dictated that it has been value engineered. Heck, we have...

The TD signage is waaaay too large. The building would look so much better without it, regardless of the fact that it's oversized.

I am not sure how I feel about the the loss of the heritage element (facade? Strip?) that was ultimately removed from the front. I get it: more transparency and a more coherent design. But I liked how the new played off the old and I liked the fact that you could view the project from Front...

I do not want to be flippant, but if Dundas was not "abolitionist enough," find a Canadian who was, hopefully with a catchy name, and use that. Easy. It's historic, it's Canadian, it is part of our history and it serves as a counter to the fact that Dundas was not abolitionist enough for...

Few are arguing that this proposed station is done right though. ;)