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I wonder when Capitain John's will get the old 'heave ho'? I can't wait to see some green space at the bottom of Yonge when the public promenade goes in.

A few cell phone pics from this morning...

I find the fact that people have such strong views about Shangri-La, both for and against, very encouraging. Regardless of whether it's good or bad (I personally quite like it, although I like the Four Seasons much better), the fact that it's starting such passionate discussions is fantastic...

John Bentley Mays has a column in Friday's Globe and Mail on the Shangri-La (and Ian Gillespie more generally): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/architecture/john-bentley-mays/west-coast-builder-has-big-toronto-plans/article2232087/

I'm not entirely sure that I agree with this. I walk by this site every day, and I think that the martini bar scheduled to open on the corner will work very well. Also, while the front door is technically in a covered driveway area, it is on a diagonal and isn't set very far back from the...

Thanks for the help cruzin4u -- and nice pic, Saynotofaux. Let's try this again...

I beg to differ, AG - the views from the East side of Riverdale Park are some of the most spectacular in the city. I've also always been partial to the view from Sir Winston Churchill Reservoir at St. Clair and Spadina Road.

Walking by the site today, I noticed that there is an abundance of signage for Brookfield Multiplex (mostly on the gates and hoardings). After a quick google search, it seems that they are an Australian-based Brookfield Asset Management subsidiary. I've been out of the country for a couple of...

Lately I have noticed while walking on Avenue Road that this building is somewhat lopsided when viewed from the west or east. The top setback is higher on one side than the other. Perhaps it will look better once the curtain wall and fins are complete - but right now I think that it ruins the...

While I love the Ritz, I am quite annoyed at two details that are taking away from what I believe is a tremendously elegant tower: (1) at nighttime, a set of garish bare fluorescent lights - presumably lighting some type of maintenance passageway - are left on near the top of the north side...

I believe that these are Toronto's pseudo-standard streetlights in (random parts of) the downtown core, are they not? They've been used in a number of projects over a number of years, although they haven't ever been rolled out on a city-wide basis. They can be seen in the recent streetscape...

One of the two tower cranes is coming down right now.

I have to say that this is one of the most uninspired, depressing entranceways in the city. The windows are so unbelivably small, and the black cladding doesn't add any interest in this context. No effort seems to have been made to bring this project to the street in an interesting manner...

The mis-matched glass continues to be unbelievably annoying. It's a shocking lack of attention to detail in a tower such as this. With every passing day I am losing hope that they will go back and fix this problem.

Walking to work this morning, I was delighted to see that they have raised a portion of the platform about halfway up the building. Pics are below (sorry for the crappy quality - they were taken on my blackberry).

Actually, those are the second- and fifth-busiest stations in the city, respectively. Station 314 (Grosvenor) had 4,405 calls in 2009 (average of approximately 12 calls per day) and Station 312 (Yorkville) had 3,208 calls in 2009 (avergae of approximately 9 calls per day). It kind of makes...

I agree that the building could be converted to a different use. My point is more that no matter where in that area it is moved to, it is going to me surrounded by (many) condos. Fire stations are evenly spread throughout the city such that there is a station within about 4 minutes of every...

This is one of the oldest firehalls in the city, and, even though I know that many on this forum aren't fans of older archetecture, it is still a significant heritate property. I don't think that the city will be moving it anytime soon. Part of living is a dense urban space is putting up with...

^ Wouldn't that be driven by their ability to get financing? I'm not in the devleopment business and don't pretend to have any particular knowledge in the field, but from what I've read/heard I understand that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for developers to get financing for sepc...

Every time I go for a walk around Yonge and Bloor, I am surprised at just how much I hate this building...it's not so much the grey colour itself as the sheer quantity of blank grey panels. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just seems to unbelievably uninspired, especially given its...