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Looks very nice, almost icy without lights. Will look cool when they go with simulated underwater lighting. Just hope that something is still to be done about minimizing the look of the panel separation.

The new design has a lower podium portion going north on Simcoe, I don't see why they couldn't have re-oriented the tower so that it would take up the current parking lot area and leave the old building untouched. Whatever functions or offices from the low section could have been located in the...

Sad to see, it could have been interesting if they had inserted the courts into the old building but at that time I guess it was all about having a new building rather than creatively using the old.

I don't get the point of a park here, there is one directly across the street from the hospital, plus Queen's Park 1/2 a block away. Would have preferred the Deco building remained, it was a nice ending of Elizabeth St., the new building looks like a cement block.

^^ Don't get too attached, it is about to be bland-ified, get extra floors, covered in glass and called an "Icon"!

The nicest thing I can say about this building is that it got rid of an ugly parking lot that existed for way too long. Whether the infill is an improvement over parking, I will say yes. Other than that, the taller it gets, the more of it there is to dislike.

If only Eaton's College St. store hadn't been brutalized for College Park, the Art Deco/Moderne detailing would have been perfect for an upscale dept. store like Saks, though it is rather removed from the desirable Yorkville area.

Very nice for a change, not the typical glass rectangle and I love the wood staircase.

What a sad comment on the quality of a building that the best we can hope for is that it will be hidden from view, though I agree.

I'm with Torontovibe on this, have lived here my entire life and there was only ever "downtown", everywhere else is called by either a neighbourhood name (Parkdale, Yorkville, Agincourt, etc) or intersection, "Uptown" was a theatre not a district, "Midtown" didn't exist. Only since reading...

Still worried about the recreated historical base, right now it brings visions of that terrible disaster on High Park Ave., though I am hoping it turns out much better.

For one, they could have designed the boxy protrusion on Adelaide to actually look like it belongs. Continuing the terracotta colour of the podium or at least the white precast of the insets onto it; instead it has zero relationship with the rest of the podium and looks like a over-large bus...

Unless you mean the north-east corner, which is occupied by 2 historic buildings which I wouldn't want to see touched, but those directly north, including the (no longer) "Arcade" building could certainly be redeveloped.

I don't get the intention of developers with designing buildings to look like it is 3 or more different ideas all stuck together without any unifying theme. The Spadina and King towers don't look like they belong together or are part of the same development and the heritage building isn't...

This has made me wonder, how the stores that are opening in the basement will survive until the residents start moving into the tower. With little to draw people down there (unless the shop/service is moving from another location with pre-existing clientele), who will go down there to use their...

Seems to be the fate for this site, the "housekeeping" has certainly gone downhill on the present Chinatown Centre, the courtyard is particularly sad looking and uninviting and the interior isn't all that much better.

Being considered heritage in Toronto doesn't mean anything though, heritage buildings are being demolished or threatened with demolition all the time. I would have considered the building that was torn down for Tableau to be "heritage" but it was reduced to landfill rather quickly.

^^ There are parks in the area such as Sherbourne common, Underpass, plus the walkways along the water. There needs to be more reasons for people to visit this area, it needs more people not grass. Cars going by on the expressway will not be visiting the waterfront, they are rushing by to...

Wonderful new photos with nice amount of detail, nicely done.

I agree with you and Tewder, it is the very fact that there are 5 buildings in a complete row, which make this set special. Taking down any would diminish the whole, it ceases to be special or unique.