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    Ontario Legislative Building Restoration

    True, but it's more like poetic justice. DoFo must be saying: "Eureka! Now we can call it the *Ontario* Congress Centre!"
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    Ontario Legislative Building Restoration

    Well, semi-seriously, I can picture DoFo offering to retrofit the Toronto Congress Centre for legislative purposes. Yeah, Dixon & 27 is the boondocks, but...
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Would the "before" be around 1988/89 or so? That looks like one of those hipster-baiting Black Label wall ads...
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    Toronto 160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG

    As an old-fashioned casual urban architectural tourist of the pre-Y2K free-range sort, here's a bit of "new reality" that saddened me when I passed by the ground floor lobby a week or two ago: how it'd appear that the upper floors are inaccessible to all but passholders. That is, the "full...
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    Lesser recognized buildings in Toronto that you enjoy

    From the curvilinearity to the perforated brick balcony blocks, it owes a fair bit to this https://hiddenarchitecture.net/pedregulho-housing-developmen/
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    Truth be told, back in the first term of Megacity Council a quarter century ago, his father would likewise have been all by his lonesome (Robert Bruce Ford wasn't elected yet)
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Keep in mind that when we're dealing w/circa 1930 as opposed to circa 1960/70/80, there's an element of "excusability" to such loss. (Maybe what's more disheartening is how we've lost so much of what these "beautiful structures" were lost on behalf of, robbing Toronto of a more cohesive "Deco...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    DoFo probably, in his heart: "let 'em burn. Career colleges are the way to go"
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    Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

    You could go back to the future w/"Vincent". Or be perverse w/"Crossways".
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Call it "Rockwell Square", then
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Hey, why not bring back an old idea and call it "Toronto Life Square". Not after the magazine, mind you; but simply an expression of how this is where "Toronto life" takes place. Sort of like how the CN Tower became "Canada's National Tower". ;-)
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Our version of Berri-UQAM?
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    I don't know if drug dealers abide by a "goods satisfactory or money refunded" principle ;-)
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Ironically, the street preachers might be claimed as a backhanded emblem of the *success* of Y-D Square--or, for that matter, of Y-D before the square, when it was just the then-open corner atrium of Eaton Centre upon it. Remember: long before they put in the actual square, it was *already*...
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    Just because *you* had a homophobic experience there doesn't make it "the single most openly homophobic place in the city". In the end, it's more of a "crazies problem" than a "homophobia problem". And even crazies-wise, it's far from a Vancouver Downtown East Side (or "Queens Park during...
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    Yonge-Dundas Square/Sankofa Square (Brown + Storey Architects)

    I'm just waiting for smart aleck instant coffee references from aging boomer grandads
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    Regional roads are to present-day Mississauga & Brampton what signed highways like 2 and 5 and 11 and 11A were to the pre-Y2K 416. And at least the latter, even if they were technically under municipal jurisdiction in the Metro era, had some kind of historical red-line-on-the-map "mother road...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    Remember that the other thing that made the dissolution of H-N easy is that it was a simple matter of reinstating the former constituent counties (albeit now as single-tier municipalities). Whereas Peel was always a single county, so what'd you dissolve it into?
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    Toronto Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    True enough, and you can say the same about Ontario Place and Zeidler. Even the anecdotes of some within this group of OP as essentially a water park and an empty vessel for Lego/Nintendo affirm that notion--you *really* have to engage to some kind of World's Fair-era all-ages optimism to...
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    Toronto Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    Lest we forget https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-blasts-margaret-atwood-over-libraries-says-i-don-t-even-know-her/article_cb198fb3-987f-516f-968a-904beb0d9aa5.html

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