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I wonder if this building would look at least a bit better with unpainted steel cladding, a la Commerce Court West?

Great pics of the model - definitely highlights some details that I hand't noticed before. Absent the fins, the mechanical box would be as bad as the one on top of the RBC podium, which is a pretty cheap-looking detail on an otherwise gorgeous building. At least it seems that Telus is...

That's the best picutre of BAC that I have seen yet!

The facade looks a little disney-ish to me. It's a modernist building trying to be somehting it's not. Even thoughthe facade is somewhat authenic (albeit with new brick), it is no longer the stand-alone buidling that it is trying to project itself as. I get the same feeling when I see the...

I think that we'll have to wait until Sugar Beach is competed to really decide if this project ends up being a success -- the two are going to go hand-in-hand. If Suguar Beach is well-excuted it could partially make up for the blandness of FWP.

Wow - BA really does look great from that angle! (The blue sky doesn't hurt.)

I think that KPMG's logo is a partiucuarly boring one (unlike, for instance, the Bank of America logo which I have alway though looks sharp against the dark blue of Simcoe Place). It will also take away from the relatively clean look of the tower - similar to how CIBC butchered Commerce Court...

How very sad. At least the Bay Adeliade stump was somewhat hidden on Temperance Street. This abandoned site will be an eyesore on a prestigous intersectoin for some time. Could the random bits of elevator shaft and support column that I think are above grade be passed of as modern art of some...

Ah - my mistake.

It's the same idea as the right-of-way stops that they have installed along St. Clair. While I like the sleek look of the new St. Clair stops (and the cool way that the name of each stop is so prominently displayed, like a real railway), the old ones in the photograph look like they'd offer...

Trying to make any material look like something it's not is usually a bad idea in my experience. Wouldn't it be a better idea just to go with white opaque glass? Throwing a marble pattern into the mix -- especially when the building was originally clad in real marlbe -- seems somewhat tacky to me.

Great picture! Is that Bloor pre-subway?

I also love the suprise that I get when I come down Lower Jarvis to Queen's Quay only to see a massive freighter looming over me. The party boats tied up around Queen's Quay Terminal just don't cut it. For what it is worth, when Tate & Lyle acquired the Redpath plant in 2007, I think there...

I am really excited for this to be move ahead - the bottom of Yonge is so barren!

I can't imagine why they wouldn't use translucent glass from the renders...who really wants to see a pre-cast concrete fire escpape? If the stairs were more of an architectural feature maybe they would be worth showcasing. Too bad.

I agree with the above comments, the white glass in the renders looked way cooler. I never saw the earlier renders with the bare concrete, but I like the sound of it. (I am not implicitly asking anyone to re-post the render - I am too lazy to go back through the old posts to find it and so I...

John Barber reports in today's Globe that there is a good chance that the federal government will inlcude money for a Pickering Internaitonal Airport in the upcoming budet. Regardless of what you think of the merits of MaRS as a candidate for government financing, it is surely an infinitely...

Clewes' modernist townhomes on Mutual Street, attached to the Radio City complex, are beautiful.

When I walked by this site on the weekend, I noticed a number of beams protuding well above ground level on the north edge of the site (visible in the picture above). Is this shoring, or is it instead related to the railway work somehow? (I would have thought it was shoring - but have never...

I'm looking forward to the new public space / courtyard as well. I'm a little worried, though, about the site for phase 2 of BAC, which was/is to be built directly to the East of the new public space. It will be unfortunate if Brookfield just puts up long-term hoardings (think of the huge...