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Somewhere, Mies is shaking his head in disgust.

So as part of this deal, the city is effectively directing $49 million to tear down that building to create the park extension facing Bay Street?

Today:

So long, Lorne’s Coats

This is odd. It's entirely a passive-use park -- ie a place where you sit and relax -- and yet most of the park's area has nowhere to sit. Once 50 people have filled all the chairs and benches, how is anyone else supposed to use the space? What are they supposed to do?

This is very good, especially the ground floor. Exactly what a background building should aspire to.

Hoarding going up around the parking lots. And around treed areas at the west end.

171 Lowther has already been designated as part of the negotiations. https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.PB6.4

Seeing this in real life, it’s wild that it was built with such a tight footprint and awkward site plan. It’s surrounded by oceans of empty space on three sides. When the area is built out, there will be a fire hall, rec center, two public schools and a Metrolinx facility, each with separate...

20 storeys on one site is very modest. Queen and Spadina is a much more logical place for high density than Thorncliffe Park. They city doesn’t think so; the city is wrong.

They seem to be pushing the density much harder here - an already very dense area that lacks political pull - than they are on the other TOC sites. Awfully cynical of them. But not surprising

This seems like the right place to note that George Baird has died. https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/news/tue-oct-17-2023-all-day/former-dean-george-baird-passes-away-84

From Friday (with fences that apparently are now gone!)

Agreed about the stairs. And this project is underwhelming. Spatially awkward, poorly furnished, poorly lit. The mosaics are great, though.

That’s slander of 1950s public school architecture! This is a brick box, agreed, but every aspect of it is a mess. The large dimensions of the brick itself; the size, arrangement, and lights of the windows; the lack of alignment across the façade, and within each element; the lack of prominence...

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