Recent content by Big Daddy

I would think the ground in the area is pretty water saturated. I hope they did their homework on the bearing capacity of the soil.

Boring? Try ugly!

It’ll be the biggest Airbnb in North America - no one will “live” there.

Yah, who needs higher density at the intersection of two major transit lines anyway?

Careful, you can get in trouble for mentioning the incredibly slow pace of The One.

Many locations that are already zoned for low rose condos aren’t being developed. If there was money to be had making low rise condos, developers would be all over it.

there's 100,000 people moving to the GTA every year adding to an already difficult housing shortage and yet we seem to be completely against both urban sprawl AND the only alternative - high-rise buildings. What exactly was achieved by cutting 5 floors off the tallest building? It seems to me...

Just curious, it seems to be taking forever for city council to decide on the height increase here. I hope they dont finish before they get an answer.

True, I don't know why we ever gave up on lanterns..

Could be the thing that ultimately destroys our cities. I f I didn't have to live in a 500 sq ft condo to be close to work, I wouldn't. My son now works for a company based in San Francisco - but he works from his home in Kitchener. He used to live in downtown Toronto in a tiny, expensive...

Cost cutting is job #1. We used to call it “the cheapening”. Usually occurs just after approval and before construction.

I missed a few pages, can anyone tell me if the city granted the additional height Mizrahi requested?

You should always have your contract read by a lawyer. The developer invariably has the right to terminate the contract for any reason. Pre-construction condos are very difficult to conclude and are almost always late on delivery.

Interesting - I’ve never heard of liquid mass damping before.

Interesting design, but I do wonder how well they will handle high wind loads. The angles may make it difficult to shed winds - could to get a lot of sway in these buildings I would imagine.