Recent content by interchange42

Post, and a front page story (linked in the post) that answers your question: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-160-front-west-239-87m-46s-cadillac-fairview-as-gg.17751/post-2296305 42

This ain't your Dad's phase two: Pinnacle has submitted a completely new plan for this half of the site. READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! 42

Balconies can be "thermally broken" so that they don't act as radiators for a building. Cladding quality needs to improve with the drop in the size of windows. Both can be done but developers here don't push enough for solutions that may be rare or untested here, but which are common in Europe. 42

Maybe we've run outta glass. We're using so much of it elsewhere. 42

Just black-painted particle board or something similar on the heritage windows? It's been months... 42

Why would they continue the horizontal banding across the facade where the two-storey high lobby for the office tower is? Way to undercut the front doors, now just any other retail entrance. 42

Thank you both @kotsy @reinventingthewheel. While 'bubble deck' sounds curable with something off the shelf, 'voided biaxial slab' definitely sounds like something you'd need a prescription for. Still, the info plus the photo = perfect PoTD for tomorrow. Cheers! 42

Hey @kotsy, any chance you got a close-up of the objects that are being used to spell out the company names there? I'm pretty curious regarding what they might be... 42

Surprise!!! New front page story here, plus new renderings in the database file attached above. 42

Surely the expertise can be hired. I am left curious though regarding the financing of TCHC buildings... This is all being advanced with TCHC not having a capital budget for this or other projects, like 405 Sherbourne that @HousingNowTO mentions, or at Swansea Mews which isn't mentioned here...

There are no plan at all that would connect this to the PATH network. Maybe those websites you mention are misconstruing the fact that this will have a direct connection to the subway network as the same thing as being PATH connected. It is just one step removed... 42

There's something wrong with this rendering: The proposal is shown simply too short compared to the existing and other proposed buildings around it. If its north-south-east-west coords are all correct though, how do you end up with something that's looking about a third shorter than it...

PRESS RELEASE: Ontario Celebrates Opening of Mon Sheong Dr. Paul Woo Long-Term Care Centre New home brings 224 modern long-term care beds to the community March 12, 2026 Ministry of Long-Term Care STOUFFVILLE — The Ontario government is celebrating the opening of the new Mon...

I'm too freaked out to have a good bike in the city too — but more for where on a street I would leave it locked up when out on it for any reason, moreso even than having it in a condo locker. There should still be locker space for beaters though. Figuring out the quantity though will be tough...

Providing funds to the City for bikeshare in lieu is smart, but removing up to 50% of the bike parking space seems overboard to me. Somehow I doubt enough bikeshare spaces will show up to meet the demand if that reduction becomes routine. 42