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Everyone should keep in mind that this is more a master plan than anything and that before anything happens they need to select/hire firm(s) to design the various buildings. But change is definitely coming!

Such a sleek and elegant project. Something I'm wondering - where is the mechanical penthouse / cooling towers on this project?

lol @ that separating distance. Good luck to them.

Application is in, so the details will likely be public within a few days.

A yellow-brick Selby with art-deco ripoff details slapped on? Please God no.

In the case of this project, yes, but overall, postmodernism is making a really big comeback, just give it a couple more years. But yeah, this thing is incredibly bland, and it lacks the detailing to make it a great example of neo-modernism. The precast brick is the biggest letdown for me - the...

I think my point stands. The idea that if we're looking at a 62-storey tower and going "yeah, I guess that's good enough", that probably isn't the reaction we want from something that has such a huge impact on the city. It should give more back than that.

The post immediately above yours.

Club Monaco's store had rotating renovations but the entire store is open again and the windows along Yonge Street have been uncovered and bring light into the store. So much better and makes for a more urban / high street shopping experience- it's a crime they were ever covered up in the first...

What is with recent re-submittals and these deep, narrow parks? Blech.

While aesthetically it's probably the best thing Kirkor has ever done, the scale of it is OUTRAGEOUSLY out of scale with Corktown and with this stretch of Queen Street. That first render really tells the whole story, even with those (odd) setbacks stepping back from Queen St. Nothing more than...

The panels look great. The window wall does not. Why on Earth wouldn't they use mullions that are darker than the sculpted solid panels in order to recede and let the panels read more strongly?

Incredibly rare these days to see a tower with punched windows going up, and not just faking that aesthetic within a window wall system. Much credit to the architects (and Ryerson, a good institutional client) for that.

I was just about to say the same thing - a giant, hulking CrystalBlu is a scary thought, and that's exactly what this project reminds me of.

The cheap, tinny aesthetic is helped along by the fact that they're not removing the old precast panels but simple tacking aluminum panels on top of them.

The base is clad with stone, yes, but still looks cheap to my eyes. It's this quasi faux-historical thing and the window wall, mullions and spandrels make even the podium appear cheap to my eyes.

That doesn't mean that the planning system is working, rather it could be equally taken as explanation that the residents feel beaten down by Toronto-style planning processes and the OMB. If I lived in the area I probably would have given up any opposition too. I'm no NIMBY nor am I anti-tower...

Going by this comment, I suspect you are someone who just looks at the shape of a building and takes no time to investigate further. I'd encourage you, and a lot of other forumers, to look more closely at the experience of a building, its materiality, its detailing, its environmental tactics and...

Exciting news! So very well deserved by the Moriyama team. Now comes the really fun part - watching the process of creating a type of building that currently the Ontario Building Code has no provisions for. It's not often we get to see something so out of the ordinary. A lot of people seem to...