Recent content by dgto

Ughhhh this city is such a joke so often.

Does this mean that the proponent wanted narrower streets and city staff pushed for bigger?

Stunning!!

The pick up and drop off is embarrassingly bad and a huge waste of space.

Such a beautiful and elegant building. More like this!!

This will be a fantastic project. However, one can't help but think that this site, located 6 minutes walk from Main Street TTC and Danforth GO stations, should be getting at least a 30+ storey point tower and that no heritage retention should be required for the non-descript and dilapidated...

Fantastic news!!!

You can spin the population figures for the Annex and somehow try to show them in a more positive light. At the end of the day, the lack of growth in the Annex is entirely a policy decision made by planners and elected leaders. There is no reasonable argument in the year 2024 for the City to...

This building looks great so far, looks like really high quality materials. I was in London last year and the variety of brick colours and textures they use there is absolutely amazing… bright blues, greens, a new tall building made entirely of metallic red brick. Why don’t we use colour brick...

Small+ non-functional layouts are largely not a result of investor interest in the housing market, and these layouts will likely persist even if there is less investor capital going into new condo purchases. A few main reasons why so many new apartments are small and layouts are bad: - Condos...

right, you may say that the developer / proponent will do just fine. but we need to recognize that many planning decisions reduce the number of units that are built, and/or increase costs for the developer which end up being passed on to the buyer/renter. we need to recognize that there is no...

maybe I can make a more nuanced point then, without judging the existing building (even though, subjectively, I don't think it has significant enough architectural value to justify conservation). I think any time heritage conservation is required, even if it is just retaining facades, we need...

Yes, the first two floors of this building are really appalling. If only they just continued the brickwork down to grade...

Glad to hear that the developers are going to now have to spend millions of dollars to preserve these relatively ugly, uninteresting and decaying "heritage" facades

Great project that could be replicated on so many small Green P lots! However, given that this is right behind Danforth Avenue and less than 200 m from Woodbine Station, this building should absolutely be 8 storeys if not taller. I do agree that open space at the rear looks far too large and...