Recent content by interchange42

So, 204 more units, now totalling 694, but still just three elevators? What is this bullshit? I rewrote the paragraph about elevators before publishing our front page story on this resubmission. Even though there are no laws preventing elevator service this bad, I hope saner heads prevail and...

Geez, I didn't think we were getting one of Ontario's new jail sites. 42

I don't have time for a complete search now, but IIRC, all of the fanciful station design renderings have come from the developer/owners of the East Harbour site, as a way to attract businesses to relocate there, while all of the dumpy, boring, unimaginative and regrettably realistic renderings...

17|21 Architects now 42

There are at least 5 addresses involved here, including on Gilead Pl and King East I suspect the daycare is a temporary measure. There's an assembly going on here for something bigger. 42

Something coming up here! 42

Yes, this is one of the SmartTrack stations under the City's budget. Bloor-Lansdowne and St Clair-Old Weston are the other two going ahead at the moment. Having a distinction between Province and City funded stations, when there will be no distinctions in the train operation afterwards, further...

Yes, the rendering represents long-term plans. The hotel would operate for "an unspecified number of years." 42

The GO connection is going to be amazingly stupid. There should have been knockout panels built on the fare line level of the subway station, so that a direct connection could have been established between it and the GO platforms via short tunnels. But no, in their infinite lack of wisdom...

Did Union Station ever have split-flap departure or arrivals displays (aka Solari boards)? I love them, but they've certainly been of vogue for 30 years now. They cost many thousands to build (and no idea on their maintenance costs), so I'm not sure what a pair of boards would cost to represent...

There's no parapet. Back in Nov '24, they got an MVA approved to redo the top of the building. Originally the top three floors were all going to be multi-storey penthouses, with the mechanical penthouse and elevator overrun all incorporated into a flat roof, but those big units did not sell...

Post, and a front page story (linked in the post) that answers your question: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-160-front-west-239-87m-46s-cadillac-fairview-as-gg.17751/post-2296305 42

This ain't your Dad's phase two: Pinnacle has submitted a completely new plan for this half of the site. READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! 42

Balconies can be "thermally broken" so that they don't act as radiators for a building. Cladding quality needs to improve with the drop in the size of windows. Both can be done but developers here don't push enough for solutions that may be rare or untested here, but which are common in Europe. 42