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Donald Schmitt is doing a live chat right now if anyone would like to let him know how you feel: http://torontoist.com/2009/08/livechat_architect_donald_schmitt.php#more

I could be mistaken, as it was about 5 pages back and I'm not about to go back and search, but was Casa at one point being compared to skinny jeans? To throw my two cents in, I think BSN is mediocre. It worked better as the original midrise building it was supposed to be, but then they went...

I'm not sure if it's because this building was one of my first apartments when I moved to Toronto, but I have a soft spot for 25 St. Mary. Although it's a little out of style, it's well-maintained and is consequently home to a lot of long-term residents. Has anyone ever seen the installation in...

Sounds like you need a new lawyer.

Same thing that would stop them from operating from anywhere else: CUPE picketers.

While I'm not overwhelmed by this building's beauty by any means, I think that it's going to do exactly what is required by the project. As such, I suppose Jack Diamond was a pretty obvious choice for architect. If we were looking for some over-the-top, postcard-worthy piece of art, it would...

Wow, the east side of the building looks great. I like the vertical aspect of it when contrasted against the balconies above.

That would be awesome, if for no other reason than all the heads it would cause to explode on this board.

Apart from the insurance/liability issues of opening the space up to the public, I imagine that once you've designated such a spot as a public space (even if temporary), you'd get a lot of backlash once you decided to put something else there. It would be nice, though...

It's going to be really interesting to see how the opening of Fort York Blvd. up through the Cityplace lands changes the feel of this area. On the one hand, it will open up the West Harbour City and surrounding towers to the core quite a bit, but I think it also may become a rush-hour nightmare...

Regina seems awfully small for such an expensive stadium. Other than the, what, 10 home games for the football and maybe a dozen concerts, would this thing be sitting empty?

This misses the point completely. No one is proposing that the shabby, old block be replaced with another shabby, old block. What I was saying is that, just because it is older and doesn't look pretty or upscale or whatever, doesn't mean that it is devoid of value. If it has to be replaced by...

I dunno, I think that when one justifies the demolition of what was a viable employment block because it offends some aesthetic sensibility, one has to ask oneself some pretty serious ethical questions. I know I'm sounding like a bit of a broken record on this topic, but this area was much more...

Seriously. L'Oreal's ad execs must be licking their chops right about now..

I certainly hope that, if they do manage to fend off this takeover bid (for lack of a better term), they actually do have enough buyers to move ahead with the project. They sure as hell won't be getting many more after all this, that's for sure...

I couldn't disagree with you guys more about those cutout crystal things, I think they're hideous. I bet whoever designed them is a proud owner of a Bedazzler.

Oh, definitely. Please don't think I was trying to intimate that planners or other people at city hall should have gone against what I assume are probably pretty rigid (understandably so) privacy policies and leaked information about the project's troubles. This is a project that was competing...

I agree with you and MisterF with regards to this, in that very few people saw the failure of Lehman Brothers very far in advance. The troubling aspect of it though, and I suppose this is really all in hindsight, is that the money that they had received was from a shaky lender. The money to...

This project's financing has included: a) a company whose risk management practices were so awful that the company no longer exists, b) a French bank that saw this loan as such a toxic investment that it was sold to: c) a consortium of local businesses who are now attempting to force the land...

It's the second major Yonge St site that will now possibly languish for years because land and permits were given to developers who quite obviously did not have their ducks in a row. There's a long way between allowing "no redevelopment" and ensuring that when developers are allowed to evict...