Toronto Mirvish Village (Honest Ed's Redevelopment) | 85.04m | 26s | Westbank | Henriquez Partners

dusk · Feb 19, 2021

ADRM said:
It very much does not look cheap IRL. Every one of the materials we've seen so far has very good depth.

That's good news and reassuring

Hope to see it in person soon. I miss the annex.

DavidCapizzano · Feb 19, 2021

High quality, just lacking in colour or warmth for now. I was hoping the brick selection would be a bit more vibrant and use a variety of coursing techniques, but it's all stacked bond in super muted colours.

Alex L · Feb 19, 2021

isaidso said:
Sure but people confuse vibrancy with beauty. Is it vibrant? Yes. Is it attractive? No. Other cities manage to eat and chew gum at the same time. It continually puzzles me why people in this city think you can't have both. We can.

And people seem to think new means sterile monotonous stretches of glass. It does NOT. One can have brand new finely grained human scaled street frontage with density above. Hopefully this development will show what's possible. For Toronto's sake, it's important that they pull this off.

I don't think we can't have both, but it is not a necessity to be 'attractive'. More of a luxury.

Alex L · Feb 19, 2021

canarob said:
This is the scale we need all along Line 2.

Did you use Line 2 pre covid-19? Try to get on at rush hour? Packed like sardines...

We may already be near the maximum that Line 2 can support. Yes they are planning to increase frequency, but the capacity is not infinite.

MoObserves · Feb 19, 2021

dusk said:
That's good news and reassuring

Hope to see it in person soon. I miss the annex.

DavidCapizzano said:
High quality, just lacking in colour or warmth for now. I was hoping the brick selection would be a bit more vibrant and use a variety of coursing techniques, but it's all stacked bond in super muted colours.

If this is cheap, then other developers should watch and learn how to build something interesting on a budget. Yes it lacks some colour atm, agreed, but there's some very interesting play with the materials here, the brick panels especially. Hopefully it gets less 50 shades of grey soon.

Fingers crossed the cladding and glass doesn't look cheap when its installed!!

Undead · Feb 19, 2021

Alex L said:
Did you use Line 2 pre covid-19? Try to get on at rush hour? Packed like sardines...

We may already be near the maximum that Line 2 can support. Yes they are planning to increase frequency, but the capacity is not infinite.

That means we build more transit, not less density

Alex L · Feb 19, 2021

Undead said:
That means we build more transit, not less density

And build along those new lines sure ...

Undead · Feb 19, 2021

Better than building sprawl that doesn't lend itself to higher order transit.

W. K. Lis · Feb 19, 2021

Undead said:
That means we build more transit, not less density

See the

Bathurst Streetcar to Eglinton?

thread, via this link.

kotsy · Feb 19, 2021

isaidso said:
You'd get more 'bang for the buck' on Victoria though. It's already an interesting stretch of street but could do with a little animation. Plus the sign has a connection to Mirvish so on the back of the theatre makes sense.

I agree. It would just be nice to have it next to Sam's. Perhaps a sign in each location?