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Why is 302 Yonge St (the little 2-storey box on the NW corner of Yonge & Dundas) a designated heritage building? It's featureless and unremarkable, and -- most significantly -- an impediment to developing and improving this major intersection. The whole intersection, including Dundas Square, is...

So-called "heritage preservation" must address not just exteriors but also interiors. Sure, Toronto has lots of beautiful old bank buildings (Americans joke that Toronto had a bank on every corner, whereas their cities had a tavern on every corner), but much of the beauty was on the inside. Even...

The TD Tower had both a restaurant and a cocktail lounge on the top (below the observation deck?) when it opened. I can remember my father taking me to dinner there in 1970 when I started university. The restaurant was simply called "The 54th" because it was on the 54th floor. The lounge was...

All these detailed photos of the construction process and progress are fascinating, especially for an amateur like me. They're so valuable from a historical, archival perspective, too. Am I the only one who, in the white boxy structure in the centre, sees echoes of the "Colosseo Quadrato" (the...