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We're thrilled (pending successful award next week, of course) to be working with Somerville to deliver this site's final, connecting public realm layer designed by PFS Studio. This will actually be Somerville's third project on the malting property, having built the Portland Slip promenade in...

Some progress shots of the south silo. The last sections of scaffolding here will all be down and relocated to the north silo by the end of the month.

For anyone interested: I am hosting a Jane’s Walk for this project next Saturday, May 6 at 1pm. We’ll start in Ireland Park, and as part of the tour guests will get to go on site for a brief look inside the Corleck’s ongoing renovation. Conveniently scheduled right after the Ontario Place...

Apologies if someone has already posted an image of this. Was recently walking by the site and noticed a mock up of the river rock base for the pond. 2nd image taken from a WT DRP presentation.

Thanks @bgobgo and great question. We did consider but ultimately passed on uplighting the north silo for a couple of reasons. First, compared to the fluted south silo, there are fewer interesting architectural features to accent at the north given that it’s mostly a flat surface. Whereas at...

Montreal has entered the chat. 🤣

A great reminder how visible the malting silos are from all directions. And they won’t ever be obstructed given their proximity to the water’s edge and park space. That’s why we’re making the investment in architectural uplighting around the base of the fluted south silo. A total of 32...

Someone erected a tent there on Thursday. Ireland Park occasionally has small encampments appear for a week or so at a time. Unrelated, and for anyone interested, Deputy Mayor McKelvie and Councillor Malik were on site for a project tour last week. The Deputy Mayor’s office produced this short...

I love this shot. It pre-dates the north silo, so would have been taken sometime between 1928 and 1944.

Morning light on the new exterior staircases and canopy installed at The Corleck this week. The staircases will both be enclosed with a fritted glass curtain wall.

There are two separate sets of airspace controls at play here. The Airport Zoning Regulation (AZR) protects against intrusions into BBTCA’s Obstacle Limitation Surface (OLS), which is set by Transport Canada’s reg TP312. BBTCA is grandfathered under TP312 v4 (a newer v5 was adopted a few years...

Some greats shots of the Corleck available in the CoT archives. From 1987 (CMC closure) to the start of this project, the building cycled through numerous short term tenants. The adjacent community centre (Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre) actually got its start in this building. PortsToronto was...

Great photos, @Paclo This warmer (for March) weather means the Corleck’s brick restoration work (by Trinity Masonry, who also built Ireland Park) is about to start back up. The exterior stair assembly you see in the foreground of Paclo’s shots will be installed in early April. And the east...

Would love to see a mayoral candidate, or preferably group of candidates across the spectrum, rally together and pledge to NOT use the new ‘strong mayor’ powers unless they receive a minimum 51% majority mandate. Given this increasingly crowded field, really can’t stomach the idea that our next...

Not sure this is the right thread, but I really enjoyed this Azure piece by Stefan Novakovic on procurement practices. https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/can-public-policy-fix-canadian-architecture-procurement/ Plug at the end of the article for tonight’s St. Lawrence Centre design...

Article up from the Star on today’s ribbon-cutting. Opening Monday. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/02/28/province-unveils-956-million-downtown-toronto-courthouse.html

From yesterday.

No, you’re not wrong at all. PortsToronto holds a 100’ wide easement over the entire eastern edge of Little Norway Park. That easement, along with numerous other license agreements in Bathurst Quay in favour of the airport, pre-date the City’s ownership (since 1992) of the park and numerous...

Framed by the east and west towers of City Hall. Taken from the 19th floor, East Tower.

Trust me, there were worse fates under review for this site than Ferris wheels. Here’s a look from 2012 of one alternate future: http://www.jsw.ca/documents/Option2_Eireann%20Quay_BBTCA_Stolport%20Concept%20Plans.pdf Some day I’ll write my tell-all book “The Bathurst Quay Chronicles”. 😂