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    Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    Its concrete pedestal clearly partly blocked Keating Channel so it could not have stayed where is was. WT have spent billions trying to avoid flooding so leaving it in situ was clearly not going to happen. I'm sorry it has gone as it was familiar and a bit quirky but it was really not historic...
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    Toronto 400 Front Street | 195.75m | 59s | State Building Group | Kirkor Architects

    Is it significant that you mention the great views not the great food? :->
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    St Lawrence Market

    According to the local St Lawrence Historian (and official historian of the Market) Bruce Bell. Mayors in the 19th century got personal chairs and the one removed from display belonged to Mayor Shaw, the last Mayor to preside at a Council meeting in what is now the Market Gallery - in 1899. It...
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    St Lawrence Market

    For many years the old Mayor's Chair (it apparently dates from the 1920s or 1930s) was on display in the Market Gallery - former City Council Chamber, It has, I am told, been removed as it has "Colonial implications". Sounds pretty bizarre - it looks like a large chair to me! Here it is in...
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    Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

    The Esplanade bike track upgrade tender was awarded last week (happy to say NOT to Sanscon!). The (raised) cycle track work will be done after the sewer and watermain so probably in fall. Work on David Crombie Park will follow. See...
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    Toronto Bathurst Quay Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | Kearns Mancini

    I lived in Belfast until I was 28 and visit from time to time, though the City certainly has some great examples of architecture and some is certainly Georgian, I have never heard or thought of the City as having a large collection of it - and I was a founding member of the Ulster Architectural...
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    Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    The welding part and climb-proofing happened in 2022 I think. The paint job may also have been done but, clearly, not done well!
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    Hydro One Project, Downtown

    Great sleuthing, Dr Watson!
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    I knew it would not be long before one of our all-time favourite politicians reared his ugly head again! EA8.1 - Compliance Audit Application by Kevin Wiener for the Election Campaign Finances of Giorgio Mammoliti Consideration Type: ACTIONWards: All Statutory - Municipal Elections Act, SO 1996...
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    Homes on Toronto Island

    This may be of interest and not worth creating a separate thread for. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/wards-island-association-clubhouse-island-cafe-destroyed-in-large-fire-overnight-no-injuries-reported/article_d23848d0-e457-11ee-943e-c740ccec498b.html
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    TTC: Other Items (catch all)

    This is Toronto, there will be lots of changes in plan between now and the 2030s (or even the late 2020s!!). We excel at transit planning but fall short in the transit building that normally follows!!
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    Toronto Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    It is not as though ALL areas of possible 'hostile vehicle' migration in the City are protected. I understand why the knee-jerk reaction was to protect people (and the building) at Union Station but this is REALLY a stupid over-reaction. Take the damned Jerseys away, if you can easily do it...
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    St Lawrence Market

    The Market announced plans to re-jig the lower floor of South Market a couple of years ago. This was discussed here at the time (2019 or 2020??) and this may be for that but tey also apparently need new transformers and electrical work. I will see if I can get more info.
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    Hydro One Project, Downtown

    Interesting, but I suspect that these cables are to be put in the new Hydro One conduits they are currently installing beside the rails on top of the berm. If they were for the new tunnel I guess they would be stored in the Hydro One yards at each end of the new tunnel. They announced this...
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    Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    Though I too would have liked the Control Tower to remain, it's concrete base does partly block the Keating Channel and the whole aim of all this work is to ensure that if we have lots of rain the Don can get to the Lake easily. In addition, the crane is clearly a much more historic artifact...
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    Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    Either the demolition guys are poor at 'aiming' their 'destructors' or they will be demolishing the 'control tower". As the tower is going, I assume they will be removing its concrete base and thus widening the Keating Channel a bit. (It would help in flood seasons.)
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    Toronto Corktown Transit Oriented Community | 165.1m | 46s | Infrastructure ON | SvN

    That is my understanding. What used to be The First Parliament Site is for construction staging so will, I assume, be in use pretty much up to station opening and the northern block is where the station building will be so is probably also not available for more workers until the station is...
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    Toronto St Lawrence Market North | 25.3m | 5s | City of Toronto | Rogers Stirk Harbour

    Yes, the grey is 'not that bad' but it is NOT what the architect intended and was changed, as far as we know, by some City bureaucrat though the 'splashes of colour' are signature touches by the (competition-winning) architect.
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    TTC: Other Items (catch all)

    Toronto does not show up because the data he uses does not include Toronto. It is unclear how he selected the 19 cities but the only Canadian City in his sample is Montreal.
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    Moss Park / Queen & Sherbourne

    That whole block is ripe for something - which would probably involve a facadectomy. Frankly, it seems odd to do something to one building only but this is within a stone's throw of the new Ontario line Station and is clearly in play.

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