Recent content by Dark Tower

I drove by on the weekend and was suprised at how half-decent this looks. Kind of like a cheap knockoff of Toronto house. Again, good not great, but pleasantly surprised.

Yes this is a bad result caused by City Hall, but not in the way you are suggesting. By restricting new density to a few small pockets of the city under the banner of “protecting” low-density neighborhoods, they’ve created a perverse incentive. Demand for housing becomes so high that eventually...

certainly better than what is on the south building... I don't hate it quite so much when the mullions are flush with the glass

Is that a window wall or curtain wall system on the north building? Was driving by and thought "that is some slick window wall" but based on the photos looks like it is hung outside the slab so curtain wall?

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Single loaded corridor, very interesting. Also looks like they have spread the amenity space across floors and have at least some shared laundry.

I highly doubt it. The federal government is the single largest landowner in the country. Yes a lot of that is "crown land" away from urban centres but, between the 3 levels of government they own more than enough land. In other words, they are not short on potential development sites but are...

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Oh Boy, yeah let's save that for somewhere else. But in case anyone is following this and is interested in something closer to the truth, here is a link that outlines Condon's claims and how dumb they are...

thanks for pointing this out, I had been looking for something to be excited about and this is all good news so consider me more optimistic than than a few hours ago. I will disagree with you on the Partick Condon-esque stuff and the notion that Toronto has approved anywhere enough units and how...

I get what you are saying but chief planners also have the most direct control on reducing bottlenecks to supply and he obviously wasn't inclined or able to do that in Hamilton so I have no reason to believe he will be able to do it here (assuming he is even interested in that). What this means...

I'm going to zag here... and I hope I am wrong, but this seems like such a safe, predictable, status quo hire. Everyone says he is a great guy, approachable, consensus building, well liked etc., which, again just seems like a safe uncontroversial hire. Can he do the job? Almost certainly, but...