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These cool colours, while doing little for the tower, do allow old city hall to stand out better against its background. At least old city hall looks better with this reno, which is... something.

11 May 2019

New stats are in: 49, 507, 418 passengers travelled through Pearson in 2018; up 5% from 2017. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/gtaa/statistics/##

There are so many great counterpoints you could have made to mcornett’s post about redistributive taxation policies. One could argue that the most dynamic world economies tend to be the most free market or that higher taxation simply deprives Ontario of tax income and economic activity by simply...

It seems to be reflecting the green roof in that picture.

Is that the correct orientation for YSL? Should it have a 90-degree left turn?

It seems Benito and I were standing beside each other taking pictures today.

In this poorly-lit picture you can see that 2 Queen West is completely shrouded right now. Also, a big portion of the ground-floor wall along Yonge St is knocked out and the interior of the building is gutted.

Yes, Toronto descending into civil war leading the UN to repurpose Union Station as a peace-keeping-force base would be worse.

I think AlvinofDiaspar is referring to the Brandenburg Airport fiasco. Airport construction started in 2006 and is hoped to be complete by 2021.

True, no doubt. Also, according to Wikipedia, SkyscraperPage’s office is in Victoria, BC, further skewing Canadian content.

I noticed over on SkyscraperPage that if you search projects under construction or proposed, Sydney has one page of projects; Melbourne, one; Vancouver, one; Chicago, two; New York, two; Toronto, 16. It's possible that the architectural monotony we're witnessing stems from the fact that so much...

Just to be clear, this map does not depict the property involved in the construction of this tower, which is located on the east side of Bay St. The Union Station indicated on this map was located west of the current station.

Just saw this ad in the Saturday Star today.

22 January 2017

Demolition has begun!

I was in Paris last month and was struck by the fact that most side walks in the city centre are black asphalt; even streets such as Rue de Rivoli, which runs along the northern edge of the Louvre. I also noticed that the side-walk paving stones on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées look a lot like...

Yes, and yes!

Here's a link to the final report for the future planning guidelines for this stretch of Kingston Rd. Basically, it envisages a complete redevelopment of the south side of Kingston with approx. 11-storey buildings built up to the sidewalk, some shorter redevelopment on the north side of the...

It's not just you; this grey really is awful. It's dull and industrial.