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Twas I. And I can assure you that was definitely the plan when my info was up to date last year. But who knows now! Based on my (potentially outdated info.), expect a big-box tenant here across from Sugar Beach.

It's RAW. Or at least it was last time I knew...

It does when that one building sucked.

My understanding was that midrises were planned by Daniels for Queen's Quay with Giannone Petricone doing taller highrises at the north end / back of the site.

Peepers, you know nothing about how coops work. Please take your emotional responses to things elsewhere or base your opinions on facts instead of emotions and rhetoric.

Yeah, I just feel it's more cohesive and it mimics some of the lines and angles seen in the Sony Centre. - - - - - My understanding was that the residential lobby will be located in the southwest corner of the tower itself. Does anyone know what the northernmost entrance that is burrowed into...

Indeed! It's ironic since the cladding used here is a much cheaper siding system, but I too think it would have looked far better than what was used on the ROM. But then, I think that whole building was an unnecessary disaster. It's a shame they decided the green-wall idea wouldn't work out...

I like the dark-grey precast motif that's starting to go up... looks playful and distinctive for the area.

A little update from this morning:

Architectural quality, (or heritage importance) is not determined by beauty or what looks more attractive. It's about the ideas at work, the philosophy or functionality of the design, and what it says about that point in time. In any case, I have no doubt the intimate space within York Square's...

Does anyone have a link or a pdf with the main level / podium plans? I'm curious to see how they laid things out, especially with that separate entrance to the north of the tower. I've done a search on the city's website but the only drawings of the building I was able to find was before it was...

I think any metaphor related to women in a sexual context is probably going to be lost on the general demographic here. :P

The engineering is strong with this one.

The framing / mullions for the skylight on the podium is being installed and most of the metal siding is on the smaller entrance just north of there. This newer design for the podium, unfortunately, doesn't visually relate at all to the tower, I find, but the tower continues to look better and...

How is this tower, at ~50 floors, NOT a landmark? It's still quite tall and well-designed, and doesn't require another 20 storeys to be even MORE noticeable. This whole constant "it should be taller" thing IS tiresome, you have to admit. Were this tower 70 floors, people would want it to be...

Glad to see some discussion about the type of glazing being used, given that residential window-wall systems do not perform to the same degree that a curtain-wall system does, although they are not made equal. I also agree that the tower mostly has its own language which is separate from the...

The tower is better than I expected, given how the podium looks. If only they had used different materials on the podium instead of window-wall with spandrel panels, it wouldn't have been too bad. Window wall is so over-used!

Thanks, Goldie, that certainly brings those old maps to life and helps you actually visualize how it was at that time. The design is a school project, in which we are to imagine that a client is using a site just north of New City Hall, currently a parking lot, for a cartography museum and...

You win! Those are perfect, thanks! :) When my design is finished I'll post it in here so you guys can see what this is going into. I'm not sure in what capacity these maps will influence my design but they will show up in one way or another.

All of those seem to be maps of the entire downtown but I can't get them enlarged enough to see the details of particular areas. Thank you though, I will poke around that site a bit for now! Bonus points if anyone can help me find downtown maps from the 1930s or 1940s!