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It'd be interesting to track the evolution of the ubiquitous Toronto Style.

... aAnd the curvaceous rooftop mechanical structure's very, "Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab ..."

The robe certainly got a lot less wild as it flounced along the evolutionary path, didn't it?

Bring back Rack House 'M' - all is forgiven!

... and here it is: Not odd - you were chosen at random to illustrate the early response to some of The Great Man's tall point towers - specifically the opposition to height. A few more of SD2/syn's comments about the work of aA and Clewes from that thread: ( ... the last one...

Well, there's a history. Part of the ruckus about aA, I think, is that they were the first firm to go tall with their residential towers, that the Prolific Mr.Clewes lead the charge to reclaim multi-unit residential buildings for design culture, that he came along just as a massive residential...

Was that invented after the fact in order to ennoble the design with a fancy concept, or was the decision made to have a building that looked like "a glass core wrapped in a wild zinc robe" and then design one to fit the concept?

This fine, journalistic photograph sums up everything I enjoy about this building - and the Pier 27/Redpath/Sugar Beach/Corus Quay/George Brown/ Sherbourne Pavilion sequence that it belongs to. By setting off the various parts of the complex at slight angles, and setting the cladding at the...

Great sculptural works look great from any angle - this building as much as Picasso's lovely little bronze, Le Fou, at the AGO. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LargeImage.aspx?image=/lotfinderimages/d48074/d4807476x.jpg

Radio City joins seamlessly with KPMB's ballet school - most folks would probably assume they're by the same designer, and the small scale at lobby level is quite charming for such tall towers.

DTAH's The Modern, on Richmond, is another distinctive slab. Market Wharf's tower takes its cues from the large podium - also a slab - which in turn takes its cues from the surrounding St. Lawrence district red brick 1970s architecture. For all the nonsense we get about how aA's buildings...

They're equivalent to the north east corner of the new George Brown building - where the direction of the cladding panels is at 90 degrees to the rest of the building and formalism is deliberately undercut.

( what I'm saying, interchange, is that there are alternatives to Yves Gaucher's grey on grey painting at the AGO. Dig? )

I like them. They're saying, "not too perfect", like an image breaking up into pixels. There are just enough to make you notice. OCAD(U)'s covered in 'em.

If they electrified the fence it might deter the more adventurous, too.

No, it was designed to do what it does, it didn't just happen. There was a decision not to go tall with it, just as there was a decision to build Royal Bank Plaza as two towers rather than one tall tower, for instance. How 33 Yonge's angled north and south walls extend the perspective lines of...

From North Bay, especially.

Take a look at the front of the old Jail building, now that it has been cleaned up. Truly, a delight to behold.

What a majestic rear-end this building has! It almost puts the fussy University Avenue side to shame. Imagine if they'd switched the two, and how well Zhang Huan's sculpture would look, set off by such simplicity.

Spit, probably. If I recall, the hotel was in the old Plaka district at the foot of the Acropolis. Athens in those days, a few years after Greece had emerged from military rule, was delightfully seedy ( Barcelona, a few short years after Franco had kicked the bucket and long before the port was...