This isn't a park, it's an ornamental doo-dad. Why on earth would anybody ever go to this thing? It takes all of 2 minutes to look at the bird bath, walk the paths to nowhere, then tell the doorman "I think there's a problem with the sewer over by that ugly gray wall. Oh and I think your...
I so hope that the third-world looking, bent, rusted, wire-filled heritage poles are retained. They will surely compliment the forthcoming glue-job facadectomy that poses as heritage preservation.
This building may be ugly, it may be cheap-looking. It may be poorly constructed and meet the street like a Borg cube descended from hell. It may suffer from crappy big box retail at podium level and an incredibly embarrassing basement area. But let us never forget: when it's finished, THIS WILL...
The poor little Flatiron building is completely lost next to this massive spandrel-clad blob. What was once a nicely-scaled Victorian streetscape is now dominated by this gigantic grey mess. Way to go!
Like Dundas Square?
That was a sponsored event (obviously) but they do have a walk-up bar and food the rest of the time. But you're right, who wants to have a drink and dance - in public even?! That's just crazy and will lead to no good!!
Maybe that's why the TTC is such a basket case. Running empty trains a 6 minute intervals on the stubway to nowhere doesn't seem like a wise allocation of limited funds.
This could really use bar and food service like the one in Montreal. The surroundings are such a grim wasteland of nothingness.
http://vimeo.com/44577339
On weekdays, the Metro runs from every 3 minutes to 10 minutes on the orange and green lines and 4 to 11 minutes on the yellow and blue. Weekends are from 5 to 11 minutes.
http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-frequence.htm#green
There's no point running for a TTC train anywhere near rush...