This looks eminently do-able, and is a relief after all the tortured forms of the previous proposals. It's nice to see the tower has some texture, and the fact that they're saying the red-brick base will be hand-laid is wonderful. It looks like a really positive addition to the street.
A nice article, with some pleasing photographs, in Canadian Architect magazine about the station reno, thus far.
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/toronto-the-great-union-station-revitalization-toronto-ontario/
Photo by doublespace Photography, from Canadian Architect magazine.
I love the clarified podium. I was worried from the previous render of it that they were settling on something a bit inferior, less committed to a full matching restoration that what we're seeing now. Despite the differences visible in the floor heights between sides, and that upper glazed...
I used to live at 40 Homewood Avenue, right downtown. It was a standard 70's rectangular slab, about thirty floors, not too thick and rather broad - like a waffle standing on its side.
The building didn't give off a perceptible vibration too often, but after a good gusty night, I'd wake up to...