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I mostly see sterile glass and spandrel. From a materials perspetive it looks very much like the typical unwelcoming/dreary Toronto trash (a bit of South Core on St Clair). The current building is no beauty, and I'm no fan of the lawn in front of it, but this is still a downgrade...

One of those vertical panels (west wall of the building, first floor above grade, 2nd panel to the left/north from the external elevator) is actually a different darker brown color. Not sure if they painted it, or if they plan to paint the other ones. Maybe they just painted the one to figure...

I have no issue with the massing/height, as I'm all for density, but it would be so much easier to be a YIMBY in this city if the developers weren't replacing nice brick buildings with so many dreary glass and grey towers. I'm convinced NIMBYs would still NIMBY, but being a YIMBY would feel...

I may be overly cynical but I'd be willing to make a bet that this decorative faux-exoskeleton (which does look very nice in the pics, especially at the ground realm where it protrudes into a fine grained canopy) never makes it onto the actual building either.

I was under the impression that the south building was originally going to be a condo (though it's be the same from a planning approvals perspective), so maybe they changed their mind to move faster (in the face of rising hard/soft costs)....or maybe I'm just speculating too much

Are you talking about the city that built all of those one storey subway stations along the Eglinton line and the extension of the University line? The city whose Neighbourhoods-first planning policies keep most of the area around the Bloor/Danforth line stations looking like suburbs. The...

Looks great (though I'd prefer more retail and more stone making its way down to the retail) thanks in large part to the use of the warmer colors. Why can't we have more buildings with warmer tones/colors? Why can't more architects look at a city where all the vegetation is dead for 6 months...

I like the wood grain roads in the rendering....must be what the Section 37 money is going to

I like all those round frames built into the retail podium....would be pleasantly surprised if they didn't get value engineered away

Respectfully disagree, in that I like the cantilevered podium (makes the area feel more open and walkable than what's currently there), especially the curve in it, and I love the bold choice of color (though I worry that it won't survive). I know a lot of people on this site like the...

Not joking: I ran by there this morning and that temporary brown cover shown here on the south and west side of the building looks better than 99% of the cladding and materials used in this city over the last 20 years. It has some warm, yet gritty, color, it looks solid (unlike all the flimsy...

Are they going to be moving some of those massive power lines? I believe that these may be utility right of ways, ingrained in provincial documents, but looking at Google Maps it looks like they shave off over half of the southern side of the prospective development lands here...if there was...

Those bronze accents add some life to these already decent looking towns. I wish other architects/developers in this city weren't so allergic to color

Is there always this much concrete in a timber building? I get the elevator shaft but I thought that it would be limited to that

Alex, I'm a big fan of your writing, and don't mean to be adversarial (toward anybody on here), so I will clarify what I said. There is research on how certain types of architectural features/details/variety attract people's eyes/attention (much of which is guided subconsciously) more than...

With all due respect, in actuality, there is research on cognitive architecture (how the brain unconsciously responds to architecture, due in part to how the brain has evolved) that implies that much of modern architecture is inhuman (or at least inherently sterile and uninteresting in that it...

I think that they should eventually go further than this, by pushing all the parking underground and building over those empty lots in the rear/south while at the same time tearing down and redeveloping all the parking structures (which seem like a waste of space that disconnects the mall from...

Does anyone know why none of these new builds right on Yonge (this and Clover) are required to plant any trees on Yonge St? There's no trees on a Yonge sidewalk from College to Bloor, with the exception of those in front of the Marriott. I feel like with these new Yonge-fronting builds having...

I will respect it when it steps in to push forward real density near low rise residential or eliminates exclusionary zoning

I like the idea of small parkettes and POPS spaces scattered throughout the city and don't necessarily need larger parks everywhere, if the parkettes/POPS spaces are well done (through good landscaping, and good connections to the surrounding streets, building entrances, and maybe even cafes)...