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Yikes, you're right. In particular, the whole the south facade looks like a blank curtain wall...

I love it. The density is appropriate, the massing looks great, the splashes of colour are fun (and much needed) and the embellishments look thoughtful, not tacky. But for all the thought that's gone into this, is an undifferentiated wall of glass along almost the entire street level really the...

The window wall and palette are clearly unfortunate. But, for better or worse the strong horizontal lines do evoke the building's former skin. And having expected a blank wall of spandrel on the south side, it's at least a pleasant surprise to see the faux window treatment -- although I'll...

This is the same institution that hurriedly tore down this building last August for a parking lot. There's no denying U of T has supported great heritage work on high profile projects like 1 Spadina Crescent, but unfortunately they don't seem too interested in showing leadership on preserving /...

So, 3 slabby takes on King Charlotte with a few balcony wiggles? Underwhelming is an understatement. These look downright banal.

I still can't get over the glass bricks. Such an unexpected choice -- one I doubted at first but am increasingly optimistic BIG knows how to pull off. The many peaks and angles here should hopefully let them play with light in interesting ways. It'll also be neat to see light coming through the...

These houses? Don't think they were part of this land assembly, although I wouldn't be surprised to see them redeveloped soon. To my knowledge the only building being torn down as part of this project is this one on Adelaide.

I'm not too surprised given the developer. Cladding on recent CentreCourt projects has ranged from decent (Core) to good (INDX) to excellent (Karma). The Gupta project across the street, though... there's something to worry about.

Beautifully done Contra!

Why must it be either/or? I'm all for redevelopment here, but a more sensitive approach could easily enhance that 'vestige' without sacrificing density.

Damn. So the desecration of Bond St begins. This and the impending loss of old hospital building across the street... Truly shameful.

This one?!?! :eek:

"These are looking a bit hacked" is a terrible argument for clearing historic vernacular buildings for any old replacement. Surely you're familiar with the likes of ERA -- who deftly return hacked storefronts to their former glory -- so the "pretty" argument doesn't hold much water. Nevermind...

Stunning! HP have set the bar awfully high on these podia -- let's hope aA/Wallman can meet this standard up top. On a related note, is this Toronto's first example of a project where individual buildings are being split up and designed by different architectural firms?

The tallest tower looks rather gorgeous, and I can appreciate the general direction here, but a little diversity in material would so massively exceed the sum of its parts. Picture the smallest tower as a Selby or Picasso, playing colourfully off the beautiful curtainwall diagrid of its...

Texture and colour and grain, oh my! This will look just lovely at street level if built as rendered.

Historicist additions to (relatively unimportant) historic buildings can be done beautifully -- case in point Allied's recent update at 180 John. But can this 'Buckareff Properties' really pull this off? There are a lot of details to get right to keep this from looking like a schlocky PoMo refit.

I am swooning at the lack of mid-pane mullions. Fabulous attention to detail. The only downside is that it's making its neighbour to the east look a little clunkier than it did before!

Of course it's annoying when passive observers write off models they don't understand. Most criticism of shadow studies is particularly groan-worthy. But in the case of more complex models of human behaviour, it's also unfair to write off legitimate scientific curiosity like West End Boy's...

Honestly, at this point I'd rather this were dogshit brown than this grey for the millionth time