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As long as the refresh respects the integrity of the 1940 Canada Post Delivery Building. Far too often, they're blind to the gem in front of them and simply try to make interiors look modern or current. The 1940s sections that survived are the last beautiful bits left. Instead of destroying...

Is that a polished concrete floor or tile?

That was how I've looked at it till very recently. I've visited the Bentway a few times but my last visit after midnight during Nuit Blanche tipped me squarely to the other side. The columns in this section have been repaired, the super-structures augmented with coloured uplighting, the...

The height difference is so negligible they will read as twins.

Most downtown folk I know don't go to Dundas Square or the Eaton Centre. Both are over run with loud obnoxious people who've commuted there from points many miles away. I don't hate either place, do enjoy the sensory overload of the square, but I'll only head there if I absolutely have to...

Stroads can always be narrowed, sidewalks widened, etc. I'd like to be optimistic but the existence of super-blocks makes it very difficult to make these stroads appealing vibrant pedestrian friendly city streets 15-20 years down the road. You need an intersection every 60-70m to slow traffic...

Unfortunately, people never learn from past mistakes. If it doesn't fit current aesthetics, it's deemed ugly, and must be destroyed. These same people will be livid 40 years from now when the new generations use the same arguments to tear down developments like Mirvish Village or replace One...

Q-bert, although Ms Pacman was always the Go To arcade game.

Agree 100% on all counts. One can modernize without stripping an interior of its historical integrity but that's not what's happened here. Far too often, those entrusted with these projects have little appreciation for the architecture/historical period no matter how vehemently they say that...

So many films pretending to be New York are filmed here that in the minds of some Toronto is starting to look more like New York than New York. Tourists who've never been here often quip how it all looks strangely familiar.

I've always found the aggressive vitriol aimed at Time & Space compared to the heaps of praise piled on Mirvish Village to be absurd and baffling. The latter addresses most things in a more successful way but not massively so. Time & Space isn't as finely grained as Mirvish but they did do...

With deserted streets, PATH is the very last thing they should invest in. The key component is whether these stroads will be re-designed as attractive pedestrian friendly urban high streets after both the density and PT goes in. If all they're doing is building density, it will have to be...

Shockingly, some UT forum members view the stripping away of 1950-2000 dreck (they like it?) from our heritage buildings constitutes Toronto bashing. I actually had a UT member say that to me a few years back and that Toronto haters like me weren't welcome on UT. He viewed the criticism of our...

Better than the landfill. It's obviously his recycling/planet saving strategy: re-filling them 100s of times with tap water.

Sure but it's also a slippery slope when you leave things up to people's common sense or sense of judgement. You know there's going to be a swath of people who'll argue that the car, pedestrian, or cyclist wasn't at the intersection quite yet so decided to pass right through without stopping...

Perhaps not a popular opinion as it's historic recreation but a pleasant surprise. The rendering is promising. As someone who grew up in England, the proportions and materials look right. That's critical to a successful result.

It's shocking what Toronto has done to literally 100s of formerly beautiful buildings. Thankfully, some of the ugly is being stripped away bit by bit. Gives one hope for Queen West, Bloor West, and numerous other streets. There are so many gems hidden behind decades of schlock. Very...

That would be sweet poetic justice AND a constant source of amusement.

There will always be people unable to recognize potential. You see it in those DIY shows all the time. They can only process what is already in existence and right in front of them. I'm a downtowner but find the condescending attitude towards suburbs attempting to urbanize can get a little...

Absolutely. You see 'salad bowl', but for me, it's a sprightly mashup of Canadian boreal forest and a mirrored 1959 Verner Panton stacking chair. It would have come down to execution, of course. Admittedly, I'm partial to that aesthetic. I have 2 of those chairs in my living room.