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Hmmmmm. So-called luxury towers where EMS has to wait 30 minutes for an elevator.... no way that's dystopian at all. And a pencil tower - really, BlogTO?

Yeah, that's a pretty tight cluster. The design is not thrilling me at the moment but it's not offensive either.

I commend your optimism on that regard. Where you see strength, I see weakness. I don't think Metrolinx has the city's best interests in mind. It's an entity subject to the whims of the provincial govenment.

Seems to me that Metrolinx s going to do whatever it wants to do, regardless of public opinion - or, for that matter, criticism, however meaningful and well intended, from the likes of this board. I get the feeling that Metrolinx acts as if it is beholden to no one. Its attitude toward Toronto...

I don't believe it's as simple as you make it out to be. I'm can't speak to how it's done internationally, particularly Europe, but it's also true that in certain Asian nations, all levels of government take a firmer hand in such projects. Here we prefer to commission study after study...

Let's move beyond this impasse, shall we? I for one believe Toronto deserves more than unimaginative, cut-rate station boxes and other anemic approaches to civic design. Costs balloon, as they always do, because of built-in inefficiencies all along the process - and, dare I say it, a certain...

I would have preferred a new addition built flush over top of the existing building, using the whole roofline and sprouting 30-40 stories, clad in some lovely colored glass hue. the net effect would be still be impressively massive and you could throw a lot of residential units in such a...

Really hope the proposal, whatever its ultimate form, does the old girl justice. She could use some TLC.

Y'know, I am beginning to wonder if all these recent announcements regarding new and/or substantially expanded film and television production space in the GTA is in fact sustainable... on the other hand, it's a sign that the industry here is no longer in its fragile infancy. But still. I...

It's just a shiny signifier that you are entering the special place where The Magic™ happens.

Interesting. Happy to see this coming. Curious to know more about the proposal in terms of its cladding and colour scheme.

Man, I dunno. Gotta take some time to evaluate all the proposals, there's some striking differences involved and I need to get my head around what each one offers. I am not a huge fan of the original building's hulking presence, so I am tempted to go with whatever entry feels like the greatest...

That's a bit of a the-sky-is-falling take on things. How dire!

Yeah, sounds plausible. I guess it's fine to engineer the initial phase so that it can take more floors down the road. I suppose it just reflects the general uncertainty of the current office market.

It's certainly not thrilling but it's still better than what's currently there. It has clean lines, at any rate. But why not build it all together, rather than wait for a possible vertical addition, sometime down the road?

"Redeveloping old areas?"

Thank for the clarification, Northern Light. Still, Canadian families are a long way off from the average size they were in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Without taking into account the positive bump by immigration, the replacement work force is shrinking. I'm simply trying to make an argument for...

Ummmm.... I know you mean well but you're responding to Northern Light rather than myself. I don't want everyone to live the same way I do - please provide evidence that I have been advocating for that. Don't sweat it; I'll wait. And you still haven't explained why sprawl is inevitable, that we...

Blondie's! One of our neighbors loves it but we can't get into it - too much sugar in their 'zas. We depend instead on Casa di Georgia on the cheap or Queen Margarita for the more gourmet experience. Different strokes.

It sure ain't as starkly binary as either-or and I think 'ole cd knows that - or I sure hope he does. To say nothing of how Canada requires immigration as it's one of many Western countries whose population is rapidly aging while family sizes are dropping - the country is therefore exposed to...