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Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does this plant do, and why is it in the middle of downtown?

If anything, it is certainly very different than the brown-grey that surrounds it, as we can see in some of these pictures (particularly those from up high with a SE viewplane). The tower cladding may take on a sort of complex quilted look once there's enough of it up -- the detail of the...

I always thought it would be cool to cover the tracks over in the downtown core and put a long, hilly park on top of them, ala Chicago (but since we can't have the waterfront per se, have the next best thing). Maybe put a large translucent window here and there (ala CN tower) to bring light down...

I say put a cover on the whole thing, and put a walking park on top. Link it up with staircases and such and put some park-related retail underneath. Saw this idea somewhere at some point, I think. Sounds expensive, but I bet tearing the thing down would be costlier.

This is an interesting project but demolishing the coach house would be a true tragedy. I lived directly across the street from it for a year (NW corner of Isabella and Huntley) and the architecture adds tremendously to this little "island" of older architecture (surrounded on all sides by...

Man, I hope there is someway they can keep the pink. Lights? It adds a lot of colour to an otherwise drabbish skyline is some of these shots.

The vantage angle from which Four Seasons most absolutely and singularly dominates the skyline might be from the Pape-Chester / Danforth area. If you look west down the Danforth from Pape in late afternoon / early evening, as I did the other week, this tower looms like a monolith over everything...

I think I disagree slightly here -- Montreal's skyline is aided by some fantastic churches and features, for now, a greater number of large distinctive buildings (IMHO) than Calgary. Montreal's skyline also set against the backdrop of Mont Royal, which is unique among major Canadian skylines --...

I think the point with Uptown is that the massing and design are (for many of us) excellent, but the building comes out far below potential because of very plain -- too plain (and thus cheap-looking) -- exterior aesthetics. Some simple and inexpensive ideas could have made uptown much, much...

I walked by Uptown during a recent heavy snowfall. It really dominates the Bloor/Yonge intersection if you approach from the east. The way in which Uptown's silhouette emerges from behind the Bloor 1 boards (and eastern neighbours) is almost sublime, particularly in the low-visibility of a...

I walk by this project multiple times daily... still not sure about the appropriateness of the scale of the project (from Devonshire it looks as if it is swallowing Massey College), but the northern stretch of St. George could use more interesting modern + heritage architecture like this (and...

Does anyone else think the spandrel glass on the mechanical box of the taller tower is ugly? Is the baby-blue colour we see the final colour?

I recently lived at Bleecker & Howard for a year and then nearby on Isabella and Huntley for another. While many think anything in this neighbourhood would help, the sketchiness of the area really only emerges at night, particularly in the park along Bleecker (West St. Jamestown Park) and around...

^^^^^^ Nice shot.