Recent content by janschot

Attractive cities aren't necessarily the move. Messy is best!

Hopefully this is the last time one of our public institutions does such a massive carbon-intensive (concrete) parking garage project... A step in the wrong direction for our climate targets.

A bit of a shame not to have balconies overlooking the cemetery - a perpetually-unspoiled view...

Looking forward to the Dufferin bus being replaced by streetcars!

This concrete looks amazing! I wonder who the contractor was doing the concrete work? Hard to get good concrete work in my experience...

Controversial take: Millennium Park is too big and is a border vacuum. Ours will be better. Our waterfront (Harbourfront) is already better than Chicago's.

Cool initiative, in theory, but this is much too little housing for this location. And this area is not lacking for parks. Should be something like 6 storeys here. Building this would leave at least three times the housing on the table.

I second the praise for the wayfinding. Any idea who did the signage design? In-house at Architects Alliance, or the landscape consultant?

344 Dupont is not part of this redevelopment, hm? Not included in the latest posted drawings.

My Google mapping of Angel Brick Walk Up Apartments, "Toronto Specials", was featured in a column by The Globe & Mail's Dave LeBlanc (the Architourist) in today's paper. Behind a paywall: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/article-the-toronto-special-ubiquitous-but-unheralded/...

The number 10 bus has a stop at Chrislea and Portage, at the northeast of this site. Service is awful at about twice hourly, but if you're willing to time your departure, you're a five minute trip away from the subway terminal.

Although there is a ramp on the west side of Dufferin, I would have preferred to see a ramped access to the Toronto West Railpath integrated into this park as well, both for barrier-free accessibility, and to allow cyclists to continue north on Dufferin.

It looks as though they're holding space for an extension of Mikado Avenue south of Ranee - is that planned?

¡Now open!

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