Recent content by AlexBozikovic

Better? It has shed the Power Plant permanently. It has shed the former Fleck Dance Theatre permanently. It closed the skating rink and replaced it with a much inferior substitute. The main pedestrian bridge is broken. It has given up much, if not most, of its main building to the Science...

This ground floor is abominable. Please do better.

The province promised a temporary 50,000 to 100,000 ft.² of exhibition space. The temporary OSC space at Harbourfront right now is about 8000 ft.². There is not that much vacant space into which they can expand. While this is speculation, because everyone refuses to answer any questions, a...

Really nice work by Superkul. That is all.

If and when this dies, the city should take the opportunity to revisit planning for the site along with all of Exhibition Place. If anything gets built here, it should be a use that is active 24/7.

Clearly vapourware, but still: it would be nice if BDPQ designed a decent façade here. What is this? Overscaled windows, overscaled masonry, weird protrusions. There’s no continuity in materials, alignment, scale or detail with the courthouse next door, which is among the best and most important...

That was his grandparents house at 15 Beverly St.

Yes, that familiar Toronto planning argument: The development industry WANTS to build towers on ugly, forlorn, polluted corners of the city, because it would be inconvenient* for them to redevelop pleasant blocks that actually have things. (*Not that we asked, and not we have made it legal for...

The house where he lived as a kid is still there on Dundas West.

Thousands of new homes in a location that’s not very walkable, next to the air pollution and noise of the biggest highway in the country. In an office park where all the public realm needs to be rebuilt from scratch in order to be minimally acceptable Meanwhile, the Bloor Danforth line still...

I count 17 towers on this map and 13 of them are vapourware. Far more actual growth is happening along the waterfront than north of Queen. There are 1500 units under construction at Quayside alone. The Queen location is a wash for West Don Lands; for other waterfront neighborhoods it's farther...

The existing building is not good and that’s not the point.

No, this is not closer to where the population growth this happening. It’s about a kilometre away from the Distillery, as is the SLM, and this is much less walkable. The SLM location is in a 200-year-old cluster of public buildings and an existing neighbourhood with a good degree of density...

So, in essence, the library refused to do a colocation because they couldn’t satisfy their own completely arbitrary size and program requirements. Instead they’re spending $25-million, plus fitout costs, to put a new branch on a much inferior site. And they are camouflaging that by moving in...

The architecture got vastly worse through the cheapening. But that’s the way of the world. Why after 15 years of process this building is not properly open to the public… That is inexplicable.