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I would argue that modern design is often too restrictive in how facades can be modified by tenants. Older buildings allow for the tenant to bring character and texture to the building. Brick and wood can be modified, painted, have many different types of signage, or a variety of different...

"Merit" from a design standpoint, no. But there is probably embodied carbon merit. This building also draws attention to how bad all glass street walls are. The only money they put into the building is on the ground floor and I literally never noticed the EIFS until it was mentioned in this...

Having the Ontario line go so far south into exhibition makes a northward extension a bit awkward, but not out of the question. In a perfect world, it would probably have made the most sense to have the Ontario line stay on Queen before turning north, and have Exhibition served by a separate...

“And the original process didn’t have community engagement as there were only 50 people who filled out the questionnaire. I think a meeting is a reasonable ask.” This is emblematic of a larger problem when it comes to the city and community engagement. Every meeting I've been to is full of...

This is a bit of an extreme view in my opinion. I've walked through there plenty of times and found it to be perfectly fine. Though you are correct, it's nothing spectacular. Certainly not Bologna. All that said - It's much better than what is being proposed. A 90 meter long glass wall with an...

If I lived in the ward I'd attend and argue vociferously to incorporate the existing building in some way.

I hate to link BlogTO, but they posted about this: https://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2022/01/wallace-emerson-park-toronto-ice-rink/ "The hockey rink is jam-packed every single night (typically around 30 players) and almost nobody is aware of the plan to remove it," says Westreich. "This will...

Yeah, thread is derailed so I'll be retiring after this.. My point was, she said it all 60 odd years ago. And It's worth nothing that, when she was providing the same insights that are on any urbanism youtube channel, Europe was just as Highway happy as NA. The key difference between a place...

I mean, to point out the obvious, Jane Jacobs is probably the most important urbanist of the last 150 years. She gave us genuine insight. Beyond that, there is a big difference between what planners believe and what council approves. This is a problem across Canada and London is no exception. I...

Thats kind of what I remembered, but these renderings look pretty sparse along the street. For some reason I remember Pearl being a bit more animated as well.

His criticism is generally correct, but I did have to stop watching the videos because he is so sanctimonious and patronizing. It's pretty easy to call North Americans stupid from Amsterdam, but most planners and urbanists have known the solutions long before the guy started his youtube channel...

The ground floor in general is pretty underwhelming and anti-urban. Some of the finishes look promising though.

One has to also wonder, at least from a carbon perspective, if this is an appropriate way to intensify. The existing building isn't exactly small. I honestly don't know anything about that sort of thing, just a gut reaction.

I think 2 things were key factors. 1. Covid threw a wrench into the timing. Golf is booming like never before so the status quo became easy to justify. 2. The municipal courses have a wider appeal than we thought. I would consider myself more on the pro golf side (though I think there is a lot...

I did recall incorrectly. Just looked it up again and it has 75% as "neighbourhoods." Probably a slice of that is not SFZ. I think the figure I was recalling includes employment and open space. The calculation I was referring to was establishing how much geographic space is available for...

Around 90 percent of the land in Toronto is singe family housing. If anything we are deeply lacking diversity in housing typology. Plus, It would only take a few walk up apartments per block to double the density of the yellowbelt. The block adjacent to this lot would require ~4 buildings (10-15...

For the love of god please wrap that southern elevation around the whole ground level!

Every source I can find pegs the value at around 30B. The number, as far as I can tell, comes from SNC selling a 10% stake for 3.25 billion in 2019...

Most of it is generally correct. The "foreign ownership" part definitely bothers me, but the claims about the NDP and the valuation are true. As is the part about being able to cancel the contract, which was the point of linking a years old article. There are a lot of problems wth the idea, but...

Sorry, this looked funky on my phone and I thought it was a response to one of my comments. Apologies for mixing that up.