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247 is a Peter Dickinson.

My story on the “deconstruction” and reuse of building materials in the landscape: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-demolition-building-materials-deconstruction/

Wasn’t aware the demolition had happened. The old school dated back as far as 1891. No heritage attention, no attempt at adaptive reuse - as usual, TDSB gets away with far less scrutiny than any private landowner. The new building is grim, of course… but, the new parking lot is twice as big as...

It’s very likely that this plan will change. I can’t say more but I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in what’s approved.

This seems heavily influenced by the COBE Canary Landing tower in the two-part composition and the articulation of the tower portion. A good model!

Canadian Architect, 1965

North side: South side:

Does this not seem like a good opportunity to make an exception and make the loading external? Basically the entire ground floor here is a service area, which seems less than ideal.

Piece to come in the Globe! Four were excellent including the winner.

For what it’s worth, some of the sentiments on this thread - “Brutalism is completely ugly, everybody hates it, nobody will ever mourn the St. Lawrence Centre” - sound exactly like what people were saying about Victorian buildings in the 1960s.

I feel like I’m missing something in the design of the public parks. Those lawns are not really big enough to do anything active, and have no seating, or shade, or anything to look at. What are these people in the drawing doing? Is there an idea here? This one has the same problem… But worse...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-art-gallery-of-ontarios-expansion-a-machine-for-showing-art/ The first drawing shows the elevator banks on the northeast corner. Windows look east.

I have a column up today about this project, and about how planning is shaping land economics to make this sort of thing happen: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-why-is-toronto-tearing-down-tall-buildings-ask-city-planning/

This is now budgeted at $295-million, plus 20% contingency. TOLive has roughly $42-million budgeted for maintenance work. This means that as much as $380-million needs to be found from government sources or philanthropy. Many of you have some relevant expertise. How plausible does this sound...

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The “Zeidler” design is led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. It is characteristic of their work in a few ways: the use of screens, the twisting vertical circulation, the stacked-boxes formal strategy.

This is KPMB with the United Church’s development company Kindred Works.