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Cityplace is a much better example. Thank you.

Taxpayers. And here's an article that seems in context at this point. You can call it a story about the ground floor in Redwood's aforementioned race to the bottom. Dubai on Empty We're not fearmongering. This is the most extreme example of what is really going on everywhere in the...

I think the idea above was to incorporate the existing structure into the base of the new building. Given that, it wouldn't have to be particularly narrow at all. The developer simply wants as much new building facing the street as possible, and it doesn't want to have to study the structural...

In the eyes of the developers, retaining the two north-facing heritage properties is already a compromise, and the city has never considered retaining 258 Victoria a priority. At Council meetings, the major priorities were the location of parking entrances, the work required on the HNR Building...

Many of those are planned in the Square, which wasn't really my point above.

I should also add: regardless of how you feel about this building in particular, or Toronto's historical structures in general, don't you feel this "neighbourhood" has lost enough already? To arson, to Ryerson's institutionalization of Yonge, to demolition by neglect, we're losing another unique...

If you've observed the Square over the same period of time that I have, you'll have noticed, then, that it's usually not the Square that draws tourists, but the corner of Yonge and Dundas itself. It's the hub of life and activity at the confluence of two of Toronto's major throughfares that...

They have no intention of retaining 258 Victoria. The brown building (258) will be demolished completely, as will its two-storey neighbour (the one containing Onyx Barbers). Removing 258 would be a shame, of course, as it contributes significantly to the character of the area, and is a dying...

Word from Cllr Vaughan: Edit: What she said! :)

I agree completely, Architect, and well said. I'm afraid we're going to see Loblaw Companies Ltd try to use the redeveloped MLG as their compromise with the city: Well, we redeveloped *that* pile of junk due to public outcry; we should certainly be allowed to demolish this one... As a city, we...

No, that's the actual brick colour. It looks like a high school in Brampton. The Bohemian Embassy uses a similar colour for some of its façades. Bloody embarrassing for the main cultural strip of the largest city in Canada.

http://twitpic.com/2x9gbc I walked by a few days ago.

Well, I wish I could post an update on the fate of the proposal. I was at the Community Council meeting all morning, but had to split at 1pm or so to get back to work and they were still discussing items three and four: Final Report - Ossington Avenue - Restaurant Study and Bloor Corridor...

This is from my roof.. I'll post a better shot that includes the new underground parking tomorrow night.

It would be off-topic to pursue this, and since my personal tastes are generally indefensible I'm not going to outline them here. I will say, though, that trotting out the few icons of an era isn't going to convince me that for every NPS there isn't a Sheraton Centre glowering at it from across...

Direct comparisons are almost impossible. Toronto is a singing, playing, laughing paradise compared to most American urban centres, both because we've been in a vastly different sociopolitical atmosphere for centuries and because we've dodged about fifty bullets that American cities couldn't...

Perhaps I am over-sentimental, but I can't help but see this proposal as the latest in a long line of little defeats around Toronto, and ceding even an inch to such short-sighted interests is particularly galling to me. The new building contributes nothing to the area: it's one of the most...

You didn't visit East Baltimore, then. I drove through a few weeks ago and it hasn't changed much since the Riot of '68.

Thanks for pulling that out, RS. Staff consider the loss of this listed property a necessary compromise in order to secure the long term preservation of the two highly prominent heritage properties fronting on Dundas Square I wonder if this was discussed at any length at previous...