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Agree. The overall proportions were better in the original. There are big ads/renderings for this tower at King subway station and in the Scotia Plaza concourse near the entrance to the station, as well as in the lobby of the building next door at ground level. (The latter is 10 ft. tall)...

This post makes no sense.

Isn't rent regulated, though? i.e. it can only go up so much per year? And in that case, wouldn't sale prices actually reflect the market value more accurately than rent prices?

I have one principal concern with highrise development in the city: Right now new highrises are almost entirely residential. What's more, we are filling our southern CBD with residential buildings. This seems shortsighted. In Yorkville/Bloor-Yonge, not a single highrise (correct me if I'm wrong...

A: Because they are the most economical to build. On the most basic level all rooms are boxes, no matter whether they be residential, commercial or otherwise. Not surprising that when you group a whole bunch of them together and stack them on top of each other, you get a bigger box. Take a look...

Oh, man. Lovin' these comments. Nothing gets people's creative juices flowing like a design they dislike. Healthy debate is good, though. Vertical cow patties (thedeepend) has my vote for the best comment. I think this design could look good with some work. Yes, the podium and digestive...

I get the Lego argument, but the project as a whole looks amazing. You can't get the full effect from a photo. It gleams, and makes the tower seem all that much more impressive.

HA! Everybody's favourite subject. City vs. city. Which inevitably becomes "why do people hate Toronto?" I've debated it for hours, but the debate never seems to go anywhere. People hate anything big or successful if they aren't a part of it. But let's move on, shall we? Let's celebrate the...

Or the hot chicks?

It's such a shame there's no good transit option for this area.

Agree. 100 stories simply isn't practical. Like you, I would much rather see intensification in those areas you mention. (Not that the two are mutually exclusive.) It doesn't make sense to have such low density along the subway route. We only have 2 lines (basically) ! We have to use them in the...

This is the problem with Ontario Place. No transit, not much parking. Potential is limited, despite the seemingly great location. I would love to see a casino with all revenues going to the city. They could figure out a solution to the transit issue because it's guaranteed to make money. It...

Yes. The article was clearly not meant as a comparison of New York and Toronto. But here's my two cents: For me, Manhattan is too dense. I hope we don't get that dense here in Toronto, but as one of the previous posts said, we're not even close to its 27,000 people per km (mi?). New York's...

Is Ontario Place not the perfect location for the aquarium? And is now, at a time when O.P.'s purpose is being redefined for the future, not the perfect time to make it happen?

Well explained. I have always wondered about that. Not to further digress, well actually yes to further digress, it reminds me of an interesting point I heard a few weeks ago. We often hear that cancer kills X out of every 10 people and heart disease kills Y out of every 10 people, therefore...

Wow. Harsh. But it cracked me up. It's funny that you are scared by fat ugly tourists. What's funnier is imagining that the area would get better if the people walking around were slimmer and better looking. It's a nice building, but it doesn't blow me away. I'm one of those people who has no...

I like it, too. But I also hear quite a bit around Scotia Plaza that people think it's ugly. Not sure why. I don't think you can judge it yet, because the top is going to balance out the bottom nicely. Plus when the lobby is done and it meets the street well, and all the windows are cleaned...

Agree, but these are not really bizarre things. They are ordinary things which happen to be false. And I certainly can believe that Ford would say them. Early in the campaign I gave Ford the benefit of the doubt, but since then he's proven that he really is a one-trick pony with no vision...

I picture Burj Ford as a bit like this rendering, except it's a giant beer can with a burning spliff on top of it.

Laughing is for children. A "Toronto museum" might be interesting for Torontonians, but for tourists?