Tewder
Senior Member
So you're basically saying that any developer can tear down any building and we should just keep our mouths shut about it??
So you're basically saying that any developer can tear down any building and we should just keep our mouths shut about it??
adma
Superstar
To be honest, one can use a nuisance question like that to excuse *any* demolition.
Oh, and this is what St Peter's replaced.
Johnny Utah
Banned
Ha. You think so highly of yourself.
Mod's Edit: And you think you can just sneak back in like that Steven Bodrug, aka Mystery White Boy?
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androiduk
Senior Member
They've got 2 machines eating away at this building like a couple of giant ants. According to a guy on site this building is a real sob to take down.
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alenka
New Member
Casa petition against Chaz
Apparently the Board of Directors of the next door Casa Condominiums scheduled a meeting with a city representative for the end of the month. They would like to raise thousands of dollars for a legal representative to petition against the construction of Chaz building. Does anyone knows what this is about? I find it strange.
Apparently the Board of Directors of the next door Casa Condominiums scheduled a meeting with a city representative for the end of the month. They would like to raise thousands of dollars for a legal representative to petition against the construction of Chaz building. Does anyone knows what this is about? I find it strange.
Ramako
Moderator
The height of hypocrisy and selfishness. I'm glad that they're throwing their money in the trash.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
I can't see a BoD wasting money fighting a development next door, that boat sailed a long time ago.
adHominem
Senior Member
Good. Give 'em hell, DuBois. Make them work for it.
AlbertC
Superstar
Aesthetic preferences aside, Brutalist era buildings were made to last. Unlike a lot of the cheap condos going up right now.
urbandreamer
recession proof
Yeah the DuBois building would've made a pretty cool condo conversion, but esp if Casa hadn't been built as tall. If this street had been capped at 15s would've made sense. I could see vines growing over the railings, like the evergreen building in Vancouver.
metroTO
Active Member
Exactly! They could've done something about it a while ago when they had the chance to fight the development along with the rest of the community.
There will be more highrise condos packed on this small street, it will be interesting to see how Casa's BoD will react to these buildings.
It wasn't Macy DuBois who designed 45 Charles. It was Macy Dubois, pronounced Duboyz, and short for Duboisinski, or something close to that. He wasn't French.
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adma
Superstar
Though surely, he adopted the spelling because it looked "French". (No sneer, mind you)
philofra
Active Member
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Well, you're right in that there's a closer link between this building and a sand castle - the system used to support it and the surface being primarily an expression of structure in both cases - than there is between the sort of fake surface you'd probably see as truer ( the Temple Building, say, where a massive veneer of masonry was applied to a structural metal frame ).