Recent content by AlexBozikovic

Ha, so the Westons sold high and are now buying it back at a discount.

This is categorically false. None of the government consultant reports even claim that it was not feasible to keep the building open. In the short term, they claim it would have cost $34-million to do critical roof repairs at 770 Don Mills. Instead: multiple moves, storage of the collection...

At 2 St Clair E, were Wittington the sellers?

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Precisely, and the actual cost of the site (via S37) was more than $45-million. That will be a $60-million park, at least. With respect, "the community" is wrong. When that is eventually opened (after many years, at huge expense, when the people who spoke for "the community" are probably all...

A perfect illustration. That park is busy because it is busy. It benefits from tons of foot traffic, retail across the street and an adjacent café, none of which conditions exist on Vaughan Road. It needs a restoration and some new seating. About 20% of the existing space is ragged (altered...

This is a complex topic, but.. I don’t think there is a single park in Toronto that is so crowded as to “impair enjoyment.” Certainly not the ones in this area. At P&R it does not seem to compute that people go to small parks because they want to see other people, not avoid them.

Because this area is seeing population growth, and the central tenet of Toronto parks planning is that more people in an area requires more square metres of park. https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/9504-oakwood-st-clair-parkland-study-plan.pdf Unfortunately not.

This is a highly detailed and well-informed proposal that generates an urbanism superior in every way to what we have now. It’s a provocation (and labelled as such) but deserves attention. There’s a talk on Monday (Jan 26) for those who are interested...

Single stair plans would make apartment buildings financially viable, and spatially possible with much nicer apartments, on many small sites. In Ontario sprinklers are required in all new apartments over three storeys anyway. (This is also true in the US and the Pew study specifically notes...

The north half of the square is empty on purpose, because it hosts hundreds of events a year. But outside of events, that space could be filled with moveable chairs and tables, and the adjacent restaurant should be a busy destination. This part of the square would then function in exactly the...

Reminder that the design competition for the square, 19 years ago, had a central premise of cleaning the clutter out of the square. Every year that goes by when the city fails to live up to its commitments there – including seating, plantings and extended paving – the empty space is just seen...

This is just extraordinarily bad. How does anyone think that this is an acceptable way for a building to meet the street?

Can’t see any reason Redpath should be displaced, but it’s worth acknowledging that there is not a huge amount of industrial activity on this area of the port. There hasn’t been for 80 years. Nuance is required. But the decision to anchor film production in the Portlands - to create a new...