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i don't feel that the setting of queen's park shares many of that place's characteristics. it's flat, landlocked and surrounded by city.

i don't see why the assumption is that high-rises are, on balance, an aesthetic negative.

i have heard a lot of canadians say these sort of things when nyc comes up. it is a certain sort that does it.

new york. london is frenetic and vibrant, but new york is exuberant, a visible upward explosion of energy.

if you are requesting that people stop noticing easily-correlated groupings of physical features and cultural quirks simply because some people may use such to discriminate.... you are something more than a utopian and perhaps not less than a lunatic. humanity has a nature.

given that nearly every human being who has ever lived has probably uttered some slur or other, and that concentration camps remain a rare enough element in the human landscape to be shocking, i'd say those are pretty big steps.

i am not sure that i would label the consistent delivery of "inappropriate comments" as utter evil.

i guess this is kind of one for the older forumers, but having just been to toronto, one of the things that i grew curious about was what the city felt like when montreal was still the first city of canada. toronto is now so much busier, so much more ambitious than my hometown that it's...

yeah, i meant spacing montreal. i didn't know there was a toronto edition.

edit: it doesn't matter.

love it or leave it, eh? weird questionings of one's patriotism? this is a witch trial. the tone has gotten hysterical, and there are too many just out to scold and preen. i'm out.

spacing is way too concerned with weird issues like the height limit and "community feedback" to give much of a shit about architecture. they probably think it's decadent, bougie... ...honestly, i doubt that hotel will look like that. that rendering is an old dcysm rendering from the '90s. it...

i don't really see you as having made much of a point with that substitution... again, you just seem to be trying to provoke moral condemnation. i hope i am not being affected by your avatar, but you are coming off as rather shrill.

there are peoples and cultures out there who are not cowed by this word in the manner that canadians are. for all your finger-wagging, switzerland is switzerland. it is not some vague, post-colonial jumble that fears nothing more that appearing reluctant to go along with the latest trends in...

it's juist terrible, isn't it? i can't believe they want to build this. montreal has never been architecturally sophisticated though - not really. it just has a really good vernacular. large projects have been iffy since 1900.

northern magus, your kind had its day. enjoy your memories of the 1990s, when discussion of the greater issues faced by diverse societies could be silenced with a single, moralistically delivered word.

i find this all predictable and tiring. new york is boastful and unbalanced... london is dreary old hulk... paris is a tyrants necklace etc. this obsessive sneering at the western world's great cities is so transparently aspirational, so terribly upper-middle.

there is clearly some strange reverse snobbery going down here. poor old peter ustinov -- his widely misunderstood insult is finally set to fall out of favour!

last time i was in bryant park i just sat there thinking how badly i wished i was in berczy park.

this is just canadians being smug pricks about the united states. we can be so trite.