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If you live in Southwestern or Northern Ontario. Also some ridings in Brampton. This election will be decided in the suburban 905, however. The PC's are holding strong in the polls there. In the most recent ones, it seems the resurgent ONDP is only taking votes away from the OLP in the 905, and...

For me, the largest factor in favour of a Queen alignment is the massive disruption that construction would cause on King street. If we can avoid tearing up downtown's most important east-west thoroughfare, then we should. I'd prefer a Richmond or Adelaide alignment, but I'll take Queen over...

They haven't started planning it yet because there isn't enough political motivation or pressure to extend it westward.

YESSSS finally these lots are getting filled in. Crossing my fingers for red brick.

If only all standard Toronto condos looked like this one...

You had me at holdouts, and lost me at Liberty Village. This project has the best potential of all the megadevelopments to avoid the fate of Liberty Village- they are purposefully including smaller retail spaces that front two major roads near a subway station. It's not an isolated pocket of...

No no no. A yellow brick Selby with wedding cake tiers, some curves, and Robert AM Stern-style "art-deco ripoff details" tastefully added. That's cool to hear. Mod's projects are solid; the care taken in their work is apparent.

In my dream world, the new building would take inspiration from the existing building and be a yellow brick Selby with art deco flourishes.... As if aA would ever do that.

Different era, same idea. More crammed. More stubby.

There are a few underdeveloped lots that have unlimited height according to the official plan. City planning would not fight a proposal that went above First Canadian Place in those places (unless there was some other conflict). Commerce Court 3 is one of them. My impression is that either A)...

lol.... you must hate Paris and Barcelona, crammed with all those short stubby buildings.

Still too tall. And I hope that the "park" is really a European-style plaza with restaurant patios opening onto it. No point in having a shaded plot of half dead grass surrounded by 30 storey buildings.

Without a doubt, I think the Seattle office is still going to be headquarters, and much larger than HQ2, regardless of its city. It shouldn't be too big of a deal if 20-30% of their operations are here. Many tech companies have large Toronto offices that serve clients in the States and it's not...

I'm quite surprised to see such a strong reaction to the winning design. It was my favourite, and seems to be more feasible (within the budget) than the Shigeru Ban design. Also, what's with Provencher Roy winning the poll on this thread? I thought it was the weakest by far.

Yes, but they have different regulations. I couldn't find an article with the Canadian context, but our situation is similar to the American one. The cost of everything in Europe is much higher, but not subways. Why? Because unions in the USA (and Canada) require 4 times as many personnel on...

The Russians like incompetent populists tho

If you want to know what makes Metrolinx projects so expensive, it's not rope or waste, it's union regulations that force them to use double the necessary amount of workers on any given project.

This will not happen as long as the baby boomers living in single family dwellings in the Former Toronto are the primary donors to their city councillors. They hold the purse strings. Downtown/central lowrise "neighbourhoods" will not be upzoned until those baby boomers age out and sell their...

A final hearing?

What good does preserving this structure do if it is obscured by anachronistic landscaping, and is not open to the public? I bet the interiors have been adulterated to shit, too. 26 new units in the core of the city would do Toronto a lot more good than preserving this house. "A meaningful...