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    Roads: Gardiner Expressway catch-all, incl. Hybrid Design (2015-onwards)

    A cedar ceiling would be nice for the Gardiner
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    Toronto Crosstown LRT: Mount Pleasant Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | NORR

    It's nice to see characterful old buildings get preserved as facades - but why do the new buildings need to be completely devoid of any features altogether... couldn't the white cladding at least have had some visible relief pattern or something? These stations would make perfect billboards...
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    Toronto Ontario Line: Queen-Spadina Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

    It seems like a no brainer to locate density on on top of a subway station in the downtown core (the entire Yonge line south of Rosedale station, for example). Is it clear why these two sites aren't being developed with higher-density buildings on top?
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    Toronto The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini

    This whole place looks a bit joyless & grim. Like what the Eaton Centre might look like in the Upside Down.
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    Toronto 171-175 Lowther Avenue | 44.85m | 11s | Raleigh Residences | Gabriel Fain Architects

    An ersatz Uno Prii-inspired tower randomly emerges from a disjointed, featureless, 3-storey podium (groan) of brick masonry. This being 2023, the latter is punctured by predictably awkward openings of various shapes and sizes, like an infant's box puzzle. I suppose this mashup design is meant...
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    Toronto Concord Canada House | 231.97m | 74s | Concord Adex | Arcadis

    Just what this city needed - more enormous twin towers that look like they were designed by accountants
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    Here is the text of the former mayors' letter: Dear Mayor and City Councillors, We, former Mayors of Toronto, request you to re-consider the decision to re name Dundas Street. We question the interpretation of the research leading to that decision and the practicality of carrying it out...
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    The point of this is to make a big spectacle of expunging a white man from the public sphere so unless you can find someone named Dundas who is BIPOC, LGBTQ or in some other way NOT a white or a cisgendered male, it's a non-starter. My guess is the street will be renamed by an unelected...
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    Toronto 294 Sherbourne | 65.45m | 20s | MPI Group | superkül

    They're knocking down half of 300 Sherbourne for the courtyard but other than that it's a pretty exciting proposal. Love the masonry tower
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    Toronto 399 Yonge | 252.3m | 75s | Capital Developments | Teeple Architects

    75 more storeys of meh to add to the rest of the meh. 🤷‍♂️
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    Toronto 475 Yonge Street | 255.76m | 78s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle

    II guess this is an improvement on the Courtyard Marriott but I'm not sure this will do much to reinvigorate Yonge Street as a vibrant retail zone.
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    Toronto Ontario Line: Queen-Spadina Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

    I assume the facade of the north-east corner is being restored and incorporated into any new development atop the station? If not, this is a big loss - much bigger than Osgood Hall's trees imo.
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    Toronto East Harbour | 214.2m | 65s | Cadillac Fairview | Adamson

    Sad to see this being demolished... Would rather see this than yet more junkspace cityplace.
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    Toronto Concord Park Place: Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Community Centre | 18.9m | 4s | City of Toronto | MJMA

    Nobody fought and/or won it though. It was "purchased" by a series of treaties. Toronto sits on the "traditional territories" of the Anishinaabeg, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa but people claiming ancestry in those groups do not "own" the land. They negotiated for certain...
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    Toronto Toronto Island Park Master Plan | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto

    The area I'm concerned about is between the restored portion of Gibraltar Point and Hanlans... Immediately SSW of where the red oval is down to Gibraltar Pt... that area is in pretty rough shape since last summer.

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