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Seeing the beautiful pavers and the ugly utilitarian street lights together in those photos is jarring. It's like putting in a beautiful floor in your bathroom and then installing a janitor's closet sink as your sink. This is where our local brand of fiscal conservatism leaves us, in a weird...

This building is massive, but the setbacks break up its heft nicely. It adds a lot of interest to the skyline.

They'll probably put them underground in the vicinity of the tower if someone pays for it.

TD spends a lot of money on branding. Banks still seem to like to associate themselves with landmark buildings. I think it'll be well maintained.

If you reads reports like this one about Canada's productivity problems, it can be hard to envisage what's being discussed. "Productivity" is usually reported on through a macroeconomic lens. Reporters rarely delve into its implications in our communities. Look no further than projects like...

They're just cementing our terrible public realm.

With some unobtrusive fencing, that space could be a nice community vegetable garden.

The profile of this building is fantastic. It enlivens the local skyline. I wish the cladding had more character and identity to it, though.

Ah, Niagara Falls revitalization. It's another issue like Ontario Place or the availability of beer in stores that has been neglected by government after government. And it will now get the attention it deserves, only to be dealt with in a regrettable way through bad planning and massive...

My qualm is that there's so little done to commemorate great Canadians in our street names, which then get used to name parks, squares, and transit stations. Toronto, Canada's largest city, is essentially the nation's capital in almost every respect except for the federal government. It's the...

I like the antique-style light fixtures. We should have them in more parts of the city. But they're supposed to go on matching antique-style black poles. We're so backwards as a city on public realm design issues. How did we end up being seemingly the only major city that can't figure out...

The agents don't want that. They want to tire you out with a lot of mediocre listings that take time to sort through and visit so that you settle for less. The most important thing to them is that you buy something, even though it might be most of your net worth that's at stake. And if you're...

Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t some optional feature for a select few discerning buyers. Every neighbourhood in a city should be developed to be walkable for individuals and society’s collective wellbeing. Every development, including this project, is a piece to the puzzle of walkability.

I’m still waiting for the LCBO itself to carry a decent vin jaune.

Those "bumpers" at the bases of the concrete columns look awful.

The streetcar could be built as local transit, but the density and destinations along the waterfront seem to justify an Ontario Line-style rapid transit line. I agree with everyone saying that there should have already been a streetcar by now and would like to see what's planned get built. We...

In that case, let's ask for a short subway line between the Port Lands and the downtown core like Montreal's Yellow Line. It could be built using Ontario Line-style trains and one day be extended to Ontario Place or the dense neighbourhoods near the lake in the west end (e.g Parkdale and Humber...

This wonderful project is eye bleach for the city's oft-shabby public realm. If we had at least a hundred such public realm projects on the go, with proper maintenance funding, we could better justify our real estate and hotel prices.

Good riddance. Those mass-produced Edwardian semis are architecturally generic yet so common in the city. They're great choices for built form that can be replaced with more metropolitan buildings.

That's ghastly. It's Holiday Inn architecture writ large. The proportions, materials, and colour palette are so badly chosen. It's truly regrettable to see.