Ontario Science Centre

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Temporary facility is notably inferior to the permanent facility it replaces: in other news, the sun rose this morning.

I mean - nobody should be surprised the temporary facility sucks.. it's temporary.

We need to apply this scrutiny to the planned permanent replacement to ensure it can offer a similar quality of facility as the original science centre.

It cannot and will not, per the proposed programming shared by peroxide boi's government in the past (complete abandonment of scientific research in favour of 'exhibition', whatever that is).

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...the worst of this is that 568,000 square feet was already there for the taking if they kept OSC where it was.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Specifically, at 770 DonMills Road, the buildings provide a total of 568,000square feet. The proposed space within the Ontario Place location—comprising the mainland building, pods, bridges and the Cinesphere—is 275,700 square feet.

The proposed centre contains 110,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space, which is 18% less when compared to 134,000 square feet (which includes the rainforest, planetarium and travelling exhibit space)at the existing Don Mills site. Infrastructure Ontario’s request for proposal (RFP) indicated that the new site would not have certain core exhibits that are part of the current centre, such as the indoor immersive rain forest or a planetarium.

So an overall space that's half as big with a smaller amount of "indoor exhibit space."

 

[hawc]

The Science Centre was the building not the exhibits. Putting it anywhere else isn't the Science Centre. Rename it. It's dead to me.

I still hold out hope, U of T or York or George Brown or TMU buy the building and use it as a campus.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Temporary facility is notably inferior to the permanent facility it replaces: in other news, the sun rose this morning.

I mean - nobody should be surprised the temporary facility sucks.. it's temporary.

We need to apply this scrutiny to the planned permanent replacement to ensure it can offer a similar quality of facility as the original science centre.

The scrutiny should have happened before a decision was made on relocation with problematical assumptions. Anything else is just decision-based evidence making.

AoD

 

[AlexBozikovic]

Temporary facility is notably inferior to the permanent facility it replaces: in other news, the sun rose this morning.

I mean - nobody should be surprised the temporary facility sucks.. it's temporary.

The province promised a temporary 50,000 to 100,000 ft.² of exhibition space.

The temporary OSC space at Harbourfront right now is about 8000 ft.². There is not that much vacant space into which they can expand.

While this is speculation, because everyone refuses to answer any questions, a solid guess is that the OSC will end up with 15,000 ft.² of its own and sharing the theatre and other spaces with Harbourfront.

Basically, the OSC is turning into a sad indoor playground for little kids while also eclipsing Harbourfront. This situation will probably last a decade.

This appears to be radical downsizing of what the OSC is and does.

It’s not what the government promised and it’s not what they claimed last week they are doing.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

^...I think I've eaten at a bigger McDonald's. >.<

 

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^...I think I've eaten at a bigger McDonald's. >.<

You may or may not have eaten there, but it does exist:

World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's - Wikipedia

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