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In a way the SRT derailment felt hardly shocking? Like people have already been inoculated for years with the fact that it’s done for, and so we were all waiting for the other shoe to drop?

It's definitely excessive, yet also unapologetically Las Vegas. For better or for worse, it will define Las Vegas's skyline with dramatic light shows, and also giant basketballs and eyeballs.

Canada's standard of living falling behind other advanced economies: TD I wonder if this economic recovery was in essentially was mortgaged off of Canada's population growth (new debtors), with the rich getting richer (i.e. the Westons), and the rest of the population getting poorer...

The entrance is a nice instance of late transitional streamline moderne that would be nice to save, perhaps along with a couple of the surrounding trees. That gentle curve and fenestration just reminds me of something you'd find from early 1950s postwar Britain.

Will these cantilevered columns be visible from any public portion of the building?

Agreed, the ground floor in this case wants to be highly permeable with plenty of ground floor activation, and I think that more traditionalist proportions (less emphasis on horizontality), or at least one that uses sympathetic materials/colour palettes would work wonders here. Dare I say that...

I think that in general electrification + economics + modern vehicular logistics has flattened out industrial architecture to typically single-storey structures, whereas industrial intensification is usually necessitated by a demand for proximity/siting that results in suboptimal sites being...

The real question is the quality of the tenants, whether we can get some independent boutique retail or if all we end up with is another drug store/bank/dentist office. That being said, I don't mind this building. A simple design, but better executed than its northern neighbour for sure, and it...

I like seeing more industrial, but I wonder if anything more creative could have been done- I.e. maybe introducing combined residential-light industrial on the edge of the site facing the Rouge River/16th Ave. Same here but I wonder if the risk and effort needed to line up such a tenant would...

That rose is quite nice, what variety is it?

In a way the park sort of wants to feel more like an oasis? It just reminds me of how many newer New York City parks seem to play around stronger edge conditions (more formal edges, clearly-defined lawns) and heavier plantings to break off line-of-sight from the surroundings.

For all it's worth, everything Ford claims to do can ultimately be boiled down to economy, economy, economy, even if the process could be harmful/scandalous. Developing the Greenbelt? Economy. Therme? Economy. MZOs? Economy. Spending billions on new factories? Economy. Fighting nurses/teachers...

It's hard to say- ultimately it depends on one's comfort level. if you are moving from another developed country/are a professional in a developing country, but don't have a job lined up or have enough money to get onto the property ladder or be able to afford CoL comfortably- then the...

No pictures, but I passed by this the other day, and I'm happy to say that the retail is filled up, and in part with a few independent restaurants. For all the criticisms of faux historicism, I think that this is a success, and the finer-grain of the retail presents itself well in the...

Will be unfortunate to lose the handsome little hydro building on the site: https://goo.gl/maps/DL9yxhZ98o1c5zdH9

It's among the best sets of developments in Hamilton going on at the moment, and I've always also liked the Core Urban (the developer)'s work. They've done an excellent job at King William and Hughson Street as well IMO. Honestly I wouldn't mind if they get handed a bunch of parking lots to...

Looks like a big disaster, who knows how long it'll take to unravel all the issues and go through the inevitable lawsuits (possibly already underway!). I wonder if the site will be sold off in the end...

I wonder how long into the future it'll take until the actual mall proper is redeveloped? it seems like it's going to be so far off into the future that the current mall is going to go through a renovation to extend its life first: https://www.hvvra.ca/update-on-humbertown-development/...

Very interesting, though I think that optimisation of Union + new stations east and west of Union is the best route going forward. I do hope that reactivating the Midtown Line is kept as a long-term plan at Metrolinx.

Another reiteration from the Star: https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/07/05/this-will-get-worse-before-it-gets-better-office-vacancy-rate-in-toronto-hits-highest-level-in-nearly-three-decades.html