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Perhaps however, most people won't associate these new shiny glass towers as having social housing. There are many run down condos that the majority would confuse to be social housing. It's all part of the stigma.
 
maestro said:
Perhaps however, most people won't associate these new shiny glass towers as having social housing. There are many run down condos that the majority would confuse to be social housing. It's all part of the stigma.
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lets hope the building is kept in good condition. It would be quite an eye sore on the city of Toronto to see something like the image below as you enter the downtown core via the Gardiner Expressway...let alone across the way from your $300-400K condo investment.

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taxman said:
lets hope the building is kept in good condition. It would be quite an eye sore on the city of Toronto to see something like the image below as you enter the downtown core via the Gardiner Expressway...let alone across the way from your $300-400K condo investment.

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First of all, they don't, and wouldn't, build anything that way in that kind of location these days.

Secondly--what's with that pictured building, and where is it? You could have picked better exemplars of "shabbiness"--seems kind of 50s/60s European to me, maybe well-worn and "lived-in" but hardly fatally blighted and slummy. In net effect, it's more St Lawrence Neighbourhood than Cabrini Green.

Of course, it may seem too, uh, "socialistic" to your slick Gordon Gecko condo-slime taste; but, that's your problem.
 
Thirdly, this thread is about Canoe Landing Park. Back on topic please. All following off-topic posts will be put out of their misery.

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Really ? There's quite a few for a Toronto park, the fountain off at one end. Then the water play park, which is really quite fun in the summer, not sure what the initial render showed ?
 
joey_122@hotmail.com said:
yaa in the rendering they showed a pond near the entrance to city place
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That rendering was nothing but a placeholder for the park. The intention was always to put the design in someone else's hands. For sales purposes, Concord designed a park in renderings to show that there would eventually be a park in that space.
 
Yeah, but even the renderings for the actual park ended up fairly watered-down. Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg designed this park- imagine how much better it could have been if it wasn't so cheapened down (Fyi, said firm also did Sherborne Commons).

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Biggest beef is the loss of the terracing. It's never too late to add some of them back in later on...right?
 
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There is not much to this park. It contains no central meeting area or a social heart. The only social part is the grass, where people walk their dogs. Other than that, this park has no heart. It lacks any kind of defining character.
 
The waterpark in the middle indeed functions as the 'heart' of the park, so I disagree completely.

Having said that it is unfortunate some of the other features didn't make it in.
 
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