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Yeah seems a little early to expect construction on this one so soon. They are advertising it like crazy. Maybe they expect some cancellations from frustrated buyers next door?

There's a gap of a few inches between the concrete and glass, plenty of room for drainage. Same detail on Spire and many others.

Looks great, more MOZO influence.

That was my guess after looking at those drawings.

The only thing left intact is the Chalmers wing, which is mainly administration offices and a few galleries. Everything else has been removed or altered so that it could no longer be considered part of the Myers AGO. Interestingly, there is more Parkin left then there is BM/KPMB. ...and yes...

Interesting. Odd that the Architect is not listed. It looks like the staggered cladding is actually pulled away from the facade (it's 15m higher than the roof) so if it's not glass it will be some sort of perforated screen acting as a sun shade.

That pretty much describes Gehry's design process. See the Serpentine Pavilion et al...

It's identified as 'commercial space' not retail like the space fronting King. Retail will never work here, most likely it will be dental or general offices that don't rely on walk-by traffic.

The back looks espcially great right now from spadina...there are some nice openings in the brick facing west.

Maybe there are contaminated soil issues as this used to be a muffler shop.

First crane is up, the second is on the way.

The townhouses to the east were indeed always part of the plan. The Alsop project was for a tiny triagular plot of land at the west most part of the site. They decided to keep with the look of the rest of the project, even if it meant using a sledgehammer to fit a 'victorian' into the site. It's...

I saw the base of the first crane for this one on Friday. Looks like it will be hot on the heels of Luna already...

The Alsop townhouses are gone. You can see the victorian knockoffs in their place just east of Dufferin.

The plan at the moment is for the second floor to be closed to visitors. Those plans can always change however.

There is an old plan at the City to connect Wellington to Front street diagonally across this block, roughly following the old rail lines. I have no idea how likely it is, but hopefully it is dead. As for Fly, you're right, the rendering shows the crazy ass balconies facing west.

The main floor rooms are for members. The Library will still be open to the public so it's likely that the second floor will be as well.

You are right that buildings can't lean or rest on each other--that makes perfect sense, you don't want a domino effect of one building knocking down another if one fails. However, there is nothing that says that buildings can't be built up against each other. They can. It happens all the time.

It looks like they stole those renderings from the expo '67 promotional material