Recent content by J Martin

Nice to see some brick and sympathy to the other buildings on this street. Who designed this one at aA? It doesn't have Peter Clewes' usual egomania, monomania and passive aggression. Material choices will likely be the usual aA cheap garbage, but one can hope!

I love the scale of this building - it's a human-sized structure, and the podium collaborates well with the rest of the streetscape. Hopefully the materials will be high quality. There's a high-likelihood that zig-zag frippery on the exterior expression will make this building look dated very soon.

Raglan is rapidly becoming one of the least hospitable streets in the area. Doesn't anyone think of building neighbourhoods anymore? It's only more filing cabinets to store people in tiny little boxes.

Holy crap - what a downgrade. I can understand the need to go with higher density, and twelve stories is perfectly appropriate for this site, but what happened to the design? This is design by balance sheet: cram as many tiny units into the cheapest block feasible to build on the site. Really...

I love Partisans work. The bonus is that this building does not overwhelm the street, even though 8 Elm is going to 97 storeys or whatever it's doing. Let's hope the developers don't suddenly want to triple the height.

As if 8 Elm wasn't bad enough. This building could be held up as an example of the fall of Western Civilisation. This is pure, disgusting developer greed. Sell 18 Elm, go out to a single family street in Scarborough and buy the entire block. It will cost the same amount of money. Then you raze...

The previous version was very thoughtful and worked well with the church. Imagine a block with ten buildings all about ten storeys tall. A much nicer way to create density than the new, developer-greed application which is FIVE TIMES the height. Toronto sprawls across hundreds of square...

Density is fantastic, but the monstrous filing-cabinet in the sky is so gross. 164 Isabella is such a lovely structure right now, and the mindless glass geometry (although the cantilever is respectful) is an insult to past lives and the sorts of cozy lifestyles people want to live. The...

architects-Alliance and Graziani + Corazza are destroying Toronto with their cheap, ideology-driven designs. The architects who design this sort of thing are entitled to live in these sterile, ugly, poorly-thought-out interventions, but the rest of us deserve better. Misguided folks like Peter...

17 Storeys at this location is very reasonable. It's funny how a well-thought out building and design like this gets so much hassle at committee, and yet there's so much over-sized, thoughtless glass garbage getting approved all over Toronto.

This is a terrific addition to Eglinton. This is the sort of development that really helps build the city and makes for good communities. A blend of retail and residential, a humane-scale, close to transit. Bravo!

The 19 floor application was a far superior design. The 31 storey one is increadibly monolithic and soul-less. If they're going to more than double the height, can they not double the quality of the design??

Did they get the approval for this height? If this goes through (and with Zinc it's doubtful) why didn't 1140 Yonge (which is a much nicer project) get its original height approved? 1140 got chopped down three floors which aggravates the classical proportions of it. Meanwhile this charmless...

It was too good to be true that this part of Yonge Street would have a dignified, pedestrian-friendly height. Another heartless, Hong Kong-style building to loom over the neighborhoods, the schools, the parks and otherwise alienate Torontonians.

Nicely designed, neighbourhood-sympathetic building! Hariri-Pontarini almost always contributes well to the pedestrian realm. If it gets built, this will complement the area exceptionally well.