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"The Other Side". It's an exceedingly soft-focus piece, giving lots of time to Ford clips, pics of the Therme renders and voiceovers rattling off what the new proposal is to bring and a few bits with Therme officials. Meanwhile, we get a few clips of just Ken Greenberg, a mention that the...

What a well-mannered group of buildings! The architects have a nifty portfolio - on my visits to downtown Hamilton, I've admired their work, but didn't know it was one firm. They sure have a skilled hand with restoring and integrating fine-grained street architecture. Does anyone know what the...

So, please forgive if this has been brought up already. There's a few different versions of the base shown in the initial renderings. Obviously we're not getting the 'angled back' first version, but the much-alike second version(s) show a kind of 'ghost facade' of the former firehall. One of...

It's immense. The amount of wetland here is massive. When I think about the amazing amount of wildlife that Corktown Common has already attracted - and it's like a postage stamp in size compared to this - MVVH has set up this area to be astonishingly profuse.

(chuckles ruefully) It's so thoroughly unimportant, unspectacular and, well, unnoticable. Geez, don't the good people at Brookfield have any pride?

That would at least be whimsical! I don't much like the kink either. Fun is not A-a's forte. It looks gimmicky, without a purpose or enjoyment. One interesting thing about the proposal is the diagonal space between the floorplates of the two towers, making 'em triangles, imitative of Royal...

This'd be a great idea! For couples who met at the park, want to commemorate being there, someone who has something or something they love - or have loved - they want to announce, engagements, etc....it could work! Nifty idea.

The revitalization of this area has been hardly short of a miracle. The desolation that afflicted this entire part of the city seemed irremediable. I'm so proud (and sometimes amazed) that Toronto did this so well, so thoroughly, over such a length of time. This area now has some of the...

Glad for the notable preservation of the original building and its tasteful expansion...but that tower has a bad case of grand mal spandrel. Can we just stop with the jiggity-jaggedy op-art aesthetic already? It's a joyless substitute for making a genuinely interesting façade. The little...

Totally in agreement with you regarding the plaza and the towers. The Art Gallery is so very altered from its original unified composition with the concert hall that demolishing it and moving it is not my main concern - except that the new one should be stunning. But the plaza? If such a...

From 'The Record', June 19, 2023 KITCHENER — It was a big blow to the community when the Schneiders meat plant on Courtland Avenue closed in 2015 after 90 years of production. Eight years after Schneiders jobs moved to a new plant in Hamilton, the land left behind will be put to use to help...

More Station Park. The old funeral home with the first phase behind it. Looking between the old funeral home and the first phase, from King Street W. First Phase, from King St W Looking south along King St. W from the first phase. I'm surprised that the new phase's streetfront...

Looking north on the west-ish side of King St. W Looking eastward, back out to King W, through the carport of the old funeral home. Back of the sales center at the right. Back/side of the funeral home, first stage of the development complete behind it. Looking west-ish from...

A few tedious pics of the site for the new Terminal. Not a thing seems to have happened since the antediluvian, still, notices lately have indicated that detailed design work is being done at this point, and the bus dropoff and pickup area will be the first to be worked on. Link to a CBC article...

A few tedious pics of the site for the new Terminal. Not a thing seems to have happened since the antediluvian, still, notices lately have indicated that detailed design work is being done at this point, and the bus dropoff and pickup area will be the first to be worked on. Link to a CBC article...

Some more shots of the site before it all starts. From King W and Francis looking N-NW The south edge of the property, with it's little fronting parkette... The existing building on site, King St. W The gap between the existing building on site (to be filled by the new tower) and its...

I'm glad that this new proposal is aiming to keep the street lively by putting retail on both main public sides of the base. As mentioned above, I would like to see the city nix this 'above ground parking podium' trend, as we've got a number of new towers with this unhappy feature already built...

The site, how it roughly looks to-day. (Cleaned up from Google Earth). The new tower will sit on the site of the grey and purple low-rise, with that little parkette in front. It should extend back to more or less touch the grey tower behind (north) of it. Looks like their podium size will be in...