Recent content by LowPolygon

I was on the menswear floor of Yonge Queen store yesterday and the person working at Diesel told me that Boss had done just that. They are owed a lot of money and didn't want their goods to get caught up in the liquidation.

One thing I've never understood, when it comes to the history of HBC, is why they never opened a store in downtown Toronto back when department stores were king. The Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg stores all date back to 1910s-1930s. Yet they didn't open a store in downtown Toronto until...

Not saying I want it to happen, in fact i would rather have it sit empty--but does the historical designation preclude building a condo, hotel or office tower above it? Would it even be possible without reducing the building to a shell?

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/its-been-called-precious-and-a-historic-architectural-gem-so-why-is-this-toronto-landmark/article_dd5e95bc-d9b5-11ef-b8be-a3f3ec58d87f.html What do people think the most likely outcome is for this building? I know it's not going to be torn down but distressing...

Dead Right. On Mar 1, 2012 I posted on this thread: "As many of us know, this company is congenitally incapable of creating quality buildings. Words like innovative, interesting, intelligent, and thoughtful, are not in their vocabulary. Hacks they are, and hacks they shall remain. No matter...

hey man, i hate to break it to you, but those things are NOT stone! if the subs invoices say otherwise, that's one for the lawyers.

Those beige scrabble pieces are not granite, limestone, or stone of any sort. The surface is, as Modern stated, a weird kind of cheap Ikea-like veneer. Anyone who looks at them up close can see this.

The 26 Most Hipster Neighborhoods In The World https://trove.com/me/content/WYo1r?chid=168783&_p=troveTrendingInternal Yes, West Queen West made the list (second from bottom). No, the photo illustrating the neighborhood is not of West Queen West.

wow that is really gorgeous. in a perfect world, a building like that would be pristinely restored and returned to its original condition, including the interior.

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It is a really beautiful looking project at night, in part because the glass itself is of such extraordinary quality, and we just rarely get to see real curves like this at such a large scale. One of the only other uses of this, at a much smaller scale, is Shim-Sutcliffe's Residence for the...

"Now, if you don't like Toronto's architecture is one things, but please the next time refrain from call my city ugly, because it's not, and you clearly never see or lived in a ugly city." Yea, that's really the kind of remark I want to seriously engage with.

My post had nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Bear or anyone for that matter, so why he's taking it so hard i'm not sure. Anyway there really wasn't any need for his outburst of ungrammatical melodrama about my impugning the chaste and unsullied garbage-free environs of "his" city.

http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/psittacismterm.htm oh i knew that the minute you started posting here. ditto. and its because of that you know nothing about western aesthetics.