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What they're doing here reminds me a bit of what was done as a placeholder for future residential development at Block 13 of West Don Lands - there was a bit of landforming, plus trees, stones and even a some large pavers cutting north to south. I am fairly certain that this is all a...

First time that I noticed the path to Draper Lane being open

Respectfully, I think that there is less "grey tones" on this building than 99.9% of what's been built in this city over the last 30 years, so I'm not sure I understand that part of the comment. In my humble opinion, the two 3XN residential projects (this and Aqualuna) are the two of the least...

Agreed, although I find the large surface parking lot at lot more wasteful

It's the blandest new building at that intersection...except for EVERY OTHER BUILDING AT THAT INTERSECTION (ignoring the heritage structures) Respectfully, I get that people were maybe expecting more (perhaps they were too distracted by the fancy balcony dividers to notice the sterile glass...

Beautiful building BUT I wish they could have avoided those small narrow pieces of back-painted grey spandrel at the bottom of the windows of the top section...it's as though it's mandatory to work a bit of that into every building in this city

I generally like how they broke up the massing, although they could have done more to break up the Wilson ground realm frontage. Even a slight change in the front setback (maybe a couple of feet) ever time they change to a different cladding would have made the ground realm feel a bit less...

"low rise existing buildings add character and variety", which refers to two massive ugly structures eating up tons of valuable real estate this near to a subway/GO train station, might be the dumbest thing I've seen from governments in the context of a housing crisis...and they're clearing...

Unless there are 20 foot cedars blocking the entire ground realm, and entrances, along the east and south side of the building, it's not going to undo the damage of that horrible cladding choice....they couldn't even choose a dark color to contrast with the light grey precast. Very Toronto to...

This little Mississauga rental looks like a higher quality (because it lacks back-painted spandrel) and warmer (thanks to the color) version of the Quay House that Empire/Kirkor are inflicting on the downtown waterfront.

It's clearly an homage to Toronto condo masonry

Are they going to paint over the rust on that crane or is there another protocol to make it look less worn out?

I may be in a very small minority on this, but I would actually prefer if they carried over some of that brownish cladding color (perhaps in the backpainted window wall panels that are being done in grey instead) up the tower. I say that because between all the black, white and grey of this...

I agree completely that it's frustrating to see the parking lot (and others like along the Danforth/Bloor subway line) remain, but I believe that's probably because they never expropriated that land to build the LRT and therefore they don't have grounds to expropriate and redevelop it like they...

Respectfully, there is no evidence of this in the current crisis because we don't have enough supply of older buildings to stabilize/reduce rents (you can't have evidence on a market with oversupply at a time when you don't have enough supply to meet demand). Competition is not supposed to...

They couldn't plant a single tree? You can get an entire laneway/garden suite (a housing unit) refused in this city if it requires the removal of one mature tree (because the urban forest is oh so important), but we can't get a single tree planted on a massive/wide sidewalk. The tree...

Some closer up photos of the solid vs perforated cladding (I personally like the variety that they created while sticking to the same warm color)

I agree on the third point, although, just like with the city, they're slow to do it because that lowers the value of the land when they sell it to developers. The first point (and similarly the second point) sound good in a vacuum, and help some people in the short term, but in the long term...

Toronto, the city where you have to hire an international starchitect to get anything but grey, black or white cladding on your building, because apparently all of the local architects are color blind (outside of the occasional splash of color on our precast brick)