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We need more speedy builds like this all over Hamilton!

Such a pity that we will loose this village-feel on Bond St with the terrible ground floor treatment. I loved walking to the planning building and the having this streetscape. I'm all for the increase in student residences though so it's all very neutral for me.

Aura would be 1000x better if they had just continued the curtainwall all the way down. Thank you AI (below).

I think the architect smoked a bit too much weed while designing this one

Idk but I've always kind of enjoyed the overall shape and curved corners of the building. I'd be over the moon if they just simply covered the lozenge roof with a green roof (wildflower meadow?) as well as the lower roof all around it. Image source: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Kaz Novak...

get 😡 curvy 😡 now ! 😡

I can't get over the fact it's so boxy and not sculptural like his other works... but I am optimistic I'll be proven wrong 🙏. I just kind of see it like another 1 Yorkville Ave (I know it's a bit of stretch lol).

A height increase would be like shooting themselves in the foot. Very few affluent people want to live in a giant 50-storey Front Street-style building. They want smaller boutique residences similar to what is going up along Davenport or the industrial conversions along Wellington.

Do you know any great examples of how the avenues and mid-rise study has impacted our streets? Over a decade later, have we seen any nice long avenues with consistent mid-rises along it's length, for example? ...Dare I say Parisian-style streetwalls!?

I’m not sure if this has been raised before, but I was recently wondering: just as we maintain rental units when a building is demolished and replaced with a condo, why don’t we do the same for retail units... or at least give former retailers the right to return to their space at a comparable...

Micro unit in tokyo = 🥰 Micro unit in toronto = :mad:

Oh, that's not...

Developers could get inspiration from the Standard in London...

Ideally they'd split the shelter into three or four and scatter them around the city.

It's a simple, lighthearted opinion. Not everything needs to be an in-depth analysis and sometimes you need silliness to cope with some seriously lacking architecture.