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Having watched this go up over the last fifteen years, I'm deeply surprised and gladdened by how well it is all turning out. This wasn't a small redevelopment, and they've seem to have gotten nearly everything right. From the scale and generosity of the overall plan to the details at street...

It's a peculiar re-do. That skybridge-garden idea goes with the new towers well enough, but looks like it's using the existing brutalist building as an ottoman. I also think the applique arches trend is one of those stylistic fads, like 70's mansard roofs, that might fail to age gracefully. But...

The details chosen better be a paragon of finesse and high style on this one, because it's inherent blockishness is going to take a miracle to overcome. Hoooo boy.

Despite it being somewhat over-tortured and possessed of vestigial lumps, it does seem to be an improvement over the previous versions. The corner treatment is curious. It's like we got a leftover movie theatre awning without getting the theatre first. Actually, a movie theater on that corner...

The shot of the building ain't much. But the sky was an empyrean caprice!

Seeing these new milk-blue panels with black-grey grames from a distance, I approached the project today fearing the worst. Happily they seem to be the inside of the external wall, not the outside. Of course, the opportunity to be let down is still a-waiting. Let's hope there's a least a...

What a disappointment. The project went from something colourfully unique that might have charged-up the street, to another staggered bit of grey blockitecture that's more or less indistinguishable from countless other projects across the GTA. I swear this grey, same-style mania that's seized...

Yeah, I have to reluctantly agree with you on this one, so far. I guess I so loved Bar Raval that I've been holding out hope ever since.

The Parking Garage is getting enclosed fairly quickly.

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SRM architects is wildly overrepresented in KW. They seem to have most of the major downtown high-rise commissions in the bag. Why? I kind of know the answer, but would rather avert my eyes. They're our very own Graziani & Corraza. Or Vranich. Easy, lumpy n' cheap. I'd really like to see...

Someone was paying attention here, especially in the massing, which is nice. I appreciate the deco attempt, but I'm thinking mere glass-and-spandrel facades can't carry it. Missing most of the entire point of deco - integration of the Arts décoratifs - it comes out looking like the teenage son...