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Crazy to see another good, large building become a teardown. What a system we have.

My piece: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe8336a64eba31e25ebdc75907f58944e66d4620d38c666cff8f6a94599/W6BPITUNYZE67BROW2DUEBNTM4/

Now AS+GG. From a presentation at CTBUH: https://bsky.app/profile/alexbozikovic.bsky.social/post/3m2nmcgf4qc2j

If the city upzoned, and was able to reliably defend that zoning at the tribunal, many things would change. What would that process look like? Meanwhile, can the city start locking in the key design aspects of proposals to avoid the bait and switch that we get almost every time?

It’s a fair point, and Metrolinx has much to answer for, but the current plan for Ordinance Triangle Park is abysmal. There’s still room to put a pool here. Instead…

It makes no sense. The, Claude Cormier plan for ordnance triangle could’ve been built for far less money, and it would instantly have become a landmark in the city. Another wasted opportunity.

An aquatic centre will cost something like $75-million. (The Davisville one was budgeted at $60-million.) There are already three public rec centres with pools within 3 km of this spot: 1 Yonge, East Bayfront, and St. Lawrence, which is not busy. Lake swimming will be available at the...

The meat is good.

The firm Marani & Morris evolved into RDH and along the way they did the rear addition too.

GBCA is claiming that all the limestone cladding panels will need to be removed over time, so the building may as well get torn down. 🤷‍♂️

This is horrendous. Much worse than the previous iteration. No sense of proportion, no relationship to the formal or material language of the neighbourhood or the city. And a terrible composition. Why are all the condo production firms leaning into these overscaled, glitchy cladding elements...

Bricks: saved. https://www.instagram.com/share/_kstVgPBm

In 50 years, people are going to wonder why there are four extremely ugly res towers at this very prominent intersection.

Why are there five different cladding designs in the first eight storeys?

Not to defend the parking, but this logic of park expansion seems a bit absurd here. Can anyone imagine a scenario in which that parking lot becomes a valuable addition to the park and delivers something that couldn’t be delivered in the existing site? Does another half acre of lawn do anyone...

Hideous. Whose idea was the stripes?

Some slides from the DRP presentation:

From southwest to east: