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+1, and I'll go you one further. While the material choices are generally very nice, the deep verticals and especially the impenetrably dark glass of the upper floors conspire with the relatively blank grade-level walls to convey a real sense of unfriendliness to the public, at least in these...

This is disappointing. It's uninspired and uninspiring, seems to offer little towards reinforcing the MEC identity, and really neuters the side street. The front doors could have been placed at the corner with aspect to both the south and east, allowing the quieter sidewalk to become a...

+1 It's the right building form, but man that's ugly. It's Portland & Queen all over again. How about some restraint, guys? Pick a few key moves and do them well. We don't want the kitchen sink approach.

Yes, a thousand times yes. I really like this building as well, it's a very confident and elegant scheme applied to what could otherwise have been an unremarkable infill site or something banal with all efforts focused on the west facade alone. In particular it's nice to see the north facade...

The City really needs to negotiate with MEC (or whoever the current landowner is) to establish a right-of-way that enables them to fix the Queen/Soho/Peter intersection. It's a broken hot mess of an intersection since their last efforts to improve it, leaving pedestrians and drivers confused...

I was extremely disappointed by all the proposals for the new Ferry Terminal for this very reason. It's a prime location for an urban square on the water, one which has all the potential in the world as the core of Toronto's waterfront as well as its main transportation hub. It should be...

I think for a bench durability should be a secondary concern after user friendliness and maybe even a tertiary concern after good aesthetics. A wood bench might wear faster than concrete, metal or stone, but those same alternatives are unbearable to use for 1/3 of the year in our climate...

+1. I'll just leave this here:

There are things I like about the towers (the gentle curves) and things I don't (the roof canopy-things and the awkward proportions the mid-height cladding transition makes) but right now I think the most interesting thing about this project is the large outdoor courtyard at ground level. It's...

Link doesn't work any longer. Can someone please post the east elevation?

I guess TAS Design Build never existed and there was never a much more interesting design proposal by Teeple put forward. And this isn't a poorly-proportioned and inelegant bastard son of the original scheme, and the existing old warehouse fabric the massive 10-storey podium purports to...

I stand corrected from my previous statement that the windows facing the Charlie site were of a more 'accessory' nature. The OBC's scope quite reasonably cannot cover construction outside of the property in question. An exterior window is an exterior window as defined by the OBC, so while...

Great Gulf owned both the Hudson and Charlie sites when the Hudson was built. Contrary to the idea that Charlie is screwing over the owners of Hudson units with east-facing windows, it should be noted that those windows would almost never have gotten built on any other project due to the poor...

http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?6645-Ryerson-School-of-Image-Arts-Redesign-%28122-Bond-St-Diamond-Schmitt%29/page7

'The Three Kings' (or at least three soon-to-be new condo towers on King St in varying states of undress)

Late in the game? GGH has controlled this site for only a few months; this is still early days. You're right that they're pushing this design hard - given the site's recent history and the tremendous interest still shown by the public like on this forum, they want to capitalize (in every...

Regarding Aqua in Chicago, which many on this board have celebrated and promoted as a template for the 1BE site: http://edwardlifson.blogspot.com/2009/07/inside-studio-gang.html?showComment=1250784281103#c7854453038792094432 I find this critique very astute and it wrings of truth. Some of the...

I walked around this building a couple of days ago, and I applaud the TCHC and Teeple Architects for aspiring to do something different in Toronto with the condominium typology. Eschewing the normal window wall or brick defaults takes vision and courage and based on the response in this forum...

You all may be correct, there may be others who beat 1BE to the 'curtain wall' punch. This would be great as it would seem that some amount of curtain wall inertia is already sweeping the local condo scene. I should be clearer though - many projects use curtain wall at the ground level to...

He certainly must be a romantic idealist to still be with the project given how incredibly long it has taken to get to this point in its construction (didn't it begin in 2001?), but the designer is also not an architect.