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What a hurtful and disgusting piece of neglect. I hope Hamilton is well and truly ashamed. Here's hoping for a well-done and sympathetic reconstruction. Usually I wouldn't want a re-creation, but I think in this case it's warranted. I don't see a new modern building going in here that is likely...

An article in TorontoToday about the Crystal renovation, with a couple pics. The article mentions the pics are Alex Bozikovic's, from a post of his on X (Twitter). TorontoToday - Rom Crystal Royal Ontario Museum begins partial demolition of its Crystal The Royal Ontario Museum’s controversial...

The preservation of the house facade hardly even counts as a token; the rest of the proposal is awful. Dull, horribly over-scaled, apparently charmless at street level. An absolute ugger and a terrible precedent for the neighbourhood.

Looking East on Victoria Looking North at Charles and Victoria Side of the base, looking East across Charles. Window framing in the lower section going in. The cement block in the openings of the base's parking garage is a surprise.. Maybe it's temporary. Looking North-East from...

Were the architects aiming for a bit of prison-industrial chic? If the panels had more sparkle or polish, there might have been a happy irony to them, or at least a rescue from what's becoming a meagrely textured monotony. I have the nagging feeling they weren't meant to be quite this dull...

Of all the choices in the world, they chose to completely fail with this. Unbelievable. And damn it, the base was actually looking good.

Profits and success are not guaranteed. Also, as poor Ontario Place has itself shown, nothing ages as fast as the future. Will the spa/waterpark even survive past a few decades in it's newly built form? Ford has been acting in bad faith this entire time - in secrecy, by force, through avaricious...

A VIA View...

A view from across the backside of downtown. SRM, Diamond and Schmitt, and a very early WZMH.

Ain't it the truth. (laughs)

Emissions aside, I'd like to see the gas plant get taken down, purely for aesthetic reasons. It just looks like a giant sheet-metal shed. Hearn is a kind of sculpted modernist hill in largely flat landscape, and has real architectural merit. It'd be great to see that side of the turning basin...

Personally, I'd rather see the AGO take out the Village By The Grange. I think all the Victorian to WW1 houses along Dundas provide a wonderful fine-grained counterpoint to the AGO, and are especially delightful when they're viewed from inside the AGO's big front 'canoe room'. It's great looking...

Light years above and beyond the initial proposal. I have to say, I'm impressed - usually we don't get this kind of improvement based on feedback. This is a pretty deft handling of what could have been a monumental screw-up. Good to see.

The Engrayening [sic] continues. Too bland to be offensive. Small mercies, I guess.

1 bedroom at 473 sq feet? That's not even a good size for a studio unit. There's not a single floorplan here that isn't horribly pinched and awkward. Are architectural firms just handing the interior layouts to their novices or new hires or something? So many of them now are absolutely...

The glazing and windowframes on this one look fantastic - what a delight! It's amazing that they've pulled such great results out of such minimal means.