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A more accurate comparison would be Riverdale is a poor man's Bloor West Village

But the main feature is the exoskeleton, which is not an accessory. This alone makes it unique in Toronto, and in rare company globally. My favourite features of the building is what it's missing....balconies and a podium. There's nothing typical about this building, but I'm getting a strange...

And unlike most of these meetings, this one was a veritable Boogie Wonderland...Wong-Tam's loss I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=god7hAPv8f0

Well, if you make an exact replica of someone's design, it's still their design.

Actually, it specifically references the "running" of the mayor's office, which is done by the mayor...not the staff. At any rate, the increased budget reflects the fact that the mayor's office under Ford was understaffed to do the job properly...it doesn't bring into question the individual...

Hello...this is Toronto. We show renderings with mature trees.....then plant 5 footers. And they will die before they reach the point that they obscure anything. Need any evidence...look no further than that Bloor St "revitalization". stupids

Please...just stop talking. Unless of course you actually have anything beginning to resemble evidence that it's even possible to have "unnecessary" streetcar service, let alone why anyone would think I was suggesting there be "unnecessary" service. The 504 has 2 minute headways (on paper...

I'm not sure what you mean by "superfluous" service??? Better service = better ridership. With peak AND midday headways of 4 mins, 501 daily ridership in 1976 was 66,500. What is it now...FORTY EFFING YEARS LATER!!! 43,000. Streetcars are the money-makers of the TTC. I don't think it's...

You have pointed out one of the obvious reasons our standards have slipped...people like yourself who simply don't know any better. Your assertion that the Queen car's service being improved upon would be a waste is proof of that. If there's a poster child for lost-cause TTC service, it's...

You are correct about that, but I think the issue that represents is that we used to have higher standards and were willing to pay for it. ....streetcars used to come more often ....grass used to be cut on public property ....flowers flourished in public parks Toronto used to be the butt of...

Exceptional buildings don't have negatives...that's what makes them exceptional. Newsflash.....224 King St West is not an exceptional building.

I have not made nor implied any reference to "you know who" (Mirvish or Gehry? ), so only you know what that little sidebar is in regards to. Obviously you aren't understanding what I mean by the term "market-driven". When confused, it's perfectly ok to just ask you know.

I hate to break it to ya...but art & design is actually fairly empirical when it comes to determining quality. Like I've mentioned previously...it is not a result of a democratic process, but a natural aristocracy.

It represents the hope for a good looking building (which doesn't necessarily mean good architecture per say...I still love the original Trump Tower on Fifth, but I wouldn't call that good architecture). Confidence is low of course. It is P+S. It is just another market-driven Toronto condo...

If they can pull off that sleek curtain wall then I think it could be a winner....maybe even a big winner. But this always looks good in renderings but very difficult to execute in the finished product. Those alternating bits are not just changes in glass panel colour like similar...

$1billion = $10 million public art contribution. Something to ponder while lamenting over the {{{{ STOLLERY STONE }}}}

It's the OP on Queen East

Get someone else to explain to you what an "expert" is.

The people who are "making the calls" don't factor in "special" in their decision making process one way or the other. So that's really a non-starter. It's a $billion project with an architects name attached to it. Safe to say it is a significant change to the current use. Developers...

It's obvious you don't stop to read posts very carefully. As I have said on multiple occasions, this issue should be carefully administered and executed by a panel of "experts" appointed by the City. Not grass-roots protesters, not local councillors and not by popular opinion...or even by...