Well! Though activity has been awfully slow, looks like a corner was turned today as the tower proper began to be set back from the base.
Huzzah.
la Rendering:
The thing, itself.
Oooof. What an ugger. The base already looks like a failed renovation of a 70's office building.
Nice to see G&C are continuing their tradition of gross asymmetry on important facades.
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This is ridiculous. Thanks for writing, though. I think I'll write them a letter, myself. I think we all should.
His email is: Daniel.Picheca@toronto.ca
Ever since the city went into some kind of grey paroxysm after the Opera House, we've got about twenty years of leaden-coloured builds to overcome. Personally, I'd love to see a moratorium on grey in Toronto architecture for the next fifteen years. Or allow it on no more than a quarter of a...
This station, in this iteration, is an insult. It's awful.
Not even the basics seem to be cared about: guaranteed level boarding, enclosure from the weather, an engaging street presence with interesting amenities within. That's without even asking for really interesting and/or stellar...
Lovely lighting this evening. It's wonderful to see the light returning to the sky later each day.
View from the back-end of downtown. The TEK tower is there on the left.
I don't get it.
The lot that was just bought [ at Duke and Victoria] is a long way east of the proposed new terminal. It sits between the current GO-VIA station and the proposed new one.
Why is this land listed as being part of the new terminal? Or is it simply some kind of density upzone or...