Recent content by northto

More Lisgar Square than Lisgar Park

Cold, dehumanizing, Stalinist fail. Cozy in a Blade Runner or Total Recall kinda way. :eek:

^ +1. cf Zurich-Kloten airport - all the concrete is board formed, thereby becoming a great textural / architectural motif.

I imagine you're both right. Don't know what the material is, but I enjoy the sandy puttiness in walli's photo. It strikes me as having depth and being changeable, a refreshing change from ubiquitous Toronto beige-y stucco and concrete.

Thanks for the shots, walli. I think the cladding is a lovely colour and shade - very sandstone.

Many thanks for these informative - and very well annotated - photos, W.K. Pardon my tongue-in-cheek cynicism, but I'm also of the mind that the recent alignment proposal is an almost unbelievable triumph of common sense.

The silver panels make me think of a bottle cap.

Feelin' pretty Tokyo.

Neo-Brutalism?

@ Ramako: +1 Mid-rise development and intensification of the Avenues is, to my mind, the most important component of the city's current growth. Paraphrasing someone here, our high streets are our main public spaces. The more vibrant they get, the more Toronto feels like it's an alive, urban...

Architect, You’ve mixed up the two elements of my argument. Let me tease them apart: Firstly, to your question and the subjective discussion of tallness/squatness: yes, I find TD to be well proportioned, with a strong vertical presence, even if it isn’t the tallest tower around (and no, I’m...

A petulant and dismissive response to a different opinion, Architect; rudeness does not strengthen an argument. I concur with Shocker and Tewder: the lack of attention paid to the north face of this building is a major oversight, as if the architect forgot that our grandest municipal...

Just to be a wee bit more precise: 1) Bathurst to Dupont is designated an Avenue, hence subject to mid-rise design guidelines, as per Map 2 of the Official Plan, cf http://www.toronto.ca/planning/pdf/midrise-Avenues-Character-Areas.pdf 2) Here's a handy presentation summarizing performance...

http://www.toronto.ca/planning/official_plan/introduction.htm http://www.toronto.ca/planning/midrisestudy.htm

@ W. K. Lis: Thanks for the clarification, W. K. It would seem the characterization of 501 @ Queensway as close to a modern LRT leaves a bit to be desired. To your second point, I continue to shake my head at the fact that standard, international streetcar signals are not used on, say...