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That's one depressingly ugly corner.

Good.

Wait what? This is permanent? It's astonishingly crude/primitive .... even for Toronto.

It's not nearly as nice as the original renderings suggested but still more appealing than those soul-less expanses of glass that have blemished the city the last 25 years.

Is that giant parking garage going ahead? If so, it's one of those projects that leaves one dumbstruck and bewildered. We're in a multi-decade process of undoing the damage done to our cities by the automobile. We're urbanizing, densifying, removing car lanes, adding bike lanes, and building...

Finch West is better than what Toronto normally builds but we're starting from a very low bar. It's still nowhere close to the level of the Sydney Metro. If one knew nothing about Sydney and Toronto, you'd assume Toronto was substantially smaller, poorer, and a considerably less...

Surely, the bouncy castle is for the children of graduate students and not for the students themselves? Or is 18 the new 6?

Well neither of those foreign publications is Canadian English. For that one needs the Gage Canadian Dictionary.

Colour, texture, proportions, solidity, recessed windows. It utterly fails in its interaction with the pedestrian realm but as 522 University Avenue shows, these issues can be addressed and turned into something beautiful. People are far too ready to destroy rather than recognizing existing...

This made my day. If realized this could change many people's perceptions of 70s office architecture. Perhaps, the impulse to destroy can be replaced with an interest in preservation, restoration, and inclusion in future proposals. The much hated Toronto Star building on Queens Quay deserves...

Good proportions and scale for the site, pleased with the colour choices, not spandrel, and its not a vast expanse of soul less glass like we see on so many buildings. It's a good contrast to the reddish tones next door and across the street. This is, by no means, an architectural masterpiece...

We have vastly different benchmarks of what constitutes vibrant. And yes, I've been to lots of small towns with more lively engaging sidewalks than Mississauga. Most of them were in Europe but some here in Canada.

Same. Unlike some of the recent lighting systems, this one is understated and complimentary.

So yet another soul less wall of nothing? Hopefully, one day this modernization can be dismantled and something designed that respects the architecture of this building.

Whether MCC ends up. being successful rests not on the amount of density they put in, but the eventual pedestrianization and urbanization of the whole area. As of now, it's a series of highways/stroads with sidewalks no one wants to spend any time on. There are towns of 5,000 people with more...

One of the best new food courts in Toronto.

It would be a cost effective way of idiot proofing it too. Some seem to think it's a swimming/wading pool for them and/or their dogs.

I love balconies but if it's not big enough to use as an outdoor room, it becomes borderline useless. One of the reasons I bought in my building was that the condo came with a usable balcony. I've got 21 plants out there, a table for 4 at one end, a table for 2 at the other end, and they'd...

It suggests they don't think buildings are attractive objects (very strange mindset to begin with) and/or what they're building is unappealing to the point it must be made invisible (impossible so why even attempt it).

Next step on this stretch is to dig up the sidewalk to bury the electrical, lane reduction from 4 to 2, elimination of on street parking, attractive lamp posts, and idiot proofing the bike lanes so cars don't park in them. I suppose, Toronto will get there eventually but it will take another...