Recent content by 4pook

Now that the scaffold is down from the Soldiers' Tower at U of T, I can show you what the view looked like when you could touch the top of the pinnacles (now all rebuilt).

This is huge Bravo to this team for proposing this at this location. I am liking that it is not all glass, liking the colour, the playfulness, the uniqueness. I love the trees on the roof gardens.

I'm sad to see this nice 19th century building destroyed. It had some of the most interesting brickwork in town and was a great corner building with its little tower. It was, however, in terrible shape for decades, the bricks wrecked by time and careless sandblasting. I am hopeful that a new...

looks lovely, until you see the Hudson's Bay Centre plopped there. Good work Peter.

that has been a parking lot for many years. Hope it gets some of the same quality of the Printing and Garment projects, which are both handsome. The Printing Factory project has many nice details, well worth a visit if you are in Leslieville.

only one I give a 10 to either. very nice work. I can imagine if I was walking down the street near it I would stop and walk over it just to see what walking over it was like.

There are much better looking prisons out there. While it was a concrete frame it had promise...hugging the street, wrapping around the building on the corner, little setbacks. Under defter hands it could have been ok. Then the nasty windows arrived and it has only been downhill. What a sad...

Toronto is Number One, at least for business types In the same week the Economist praised Vancouver as the world's most liveable city, there was another story about places for business travel. Guess which city came out on top? (Vancouver was #2.) We must be doing something right...

If they were grand brownstones on Bay it might work, but those little townhouses are kind of ridiculous. The towers are a bit cheezy but still I am not disliking them. Go figure.

Hovering table buildings that tied into Chinatown and Alexandra Park that left the Kensington we like reasonably intact could be very cool.

It is nice all those people get to look at the dangly bits from the offices, but really it was the experience of looking up the bottoms as you were walking below that blew you away. Certainly it dressed up the architecture. But it looked a bit like you could get speared for a millisecond before...

stripes be gone I wouldn't mind if the facade got a total rethink. The marble could get replaced with Neoparies (thick white glass material) or the whole thing fritted with solar cells. Practically anything would be an improvement... Maybe Brookfied could install some of the systems they...