Recent content by maestro

The built form here is just horrendous and the only rationale for this high density, concrete built form is a transit hub consisting of a frequent commuter rail and a subway station than a local community with room to spare. It's typical a massive influx of people in a stable lower density...

As far as I know, a developer wouldn't be bound to build 60 storeys tall on a site approved for 60 storey towers. This is our collective online community misinterpreting the overtly complicated process as a perishable permitted development proposal than a pre-development zoning exercise. It's...

Respect others but, we exist in a world where anyone's opinion can become mainstream no matter how absurd of an opinion it is. Fundamentalism is supplanting Science. If experienced others can't call out opinions with the threat of insulting an individual than the world is doomed. Curtainwall...

It's not headquartered in Toronto. It is in Montreal and they purchased Canadian Western Bank not too long ago inheriting CWB's Edmonton based head office. A big part of their growth were customers seeing them as the "local" alternative to Bay Street's big five.

If I remember correctly, Misssissauga City Centre has unlimited height zoning therefore there is no need for release to the public debate. It could be worse. There are as of right rentals in Canada being or recently built with no idea how many floors tall and what they look like.

The building is being demolished because a 60 storey replacement is being allowed and, to the investors, a weed lot with an approved 60 storey tower has more value than the existing apartment building with the approved 60 storey tower. There's a point to the government encouraging large scale...

Mirvish Village is the peak of large scale intensification in Toronto. Still, the height and scale of the buildings and the amount of outdoor space is not more desirable than a walkable neighbourhood home with a modest private yard or space for a family car that isn't mandatory for work...

The Star Building has been vacant so it's not producing income but, losing money. A weed lot for the next decade would save tens of millions unless they were to find tenants to foot the bill. Who is going to lease and put money into space with a demolition clause and in this market? Seems...

Looks like they are shoring up the shoring which doesn't bode well.

More tech jobs that would relocate here for competitively low wages is all Toronto needs. However, it's almost a certainty with Canadians selling themselves short boasting about another Amazon back office opening. Amazon opening offices in Canada made national news before Covid during Trump's...

Any corporate logo needs a permit regardless of first or third party advertisement. Toronto's developments would eclipse Dubai if that were not the case. Would a balcony play that spells out Menkes be able to side step the sign bylaws? Inspiration...

These could turn out like Residence of College Park or premium residential towers in any major global city in the world. It comes down to the curtain wall. The site plan does leave a lot to be desired but, until shovels hit the ground, I'm not getting too invested.

Cladding is fine. I do can understand disappointment if the expectation was brick. The whole window package is the weakest element in the cladding. It's very ordinary to put it kindly. Also, the variation in the facade doesn't fully break up the huge massing. As for the units, is it possible...

There's a premium to build up and an even larger premium to provide public services and amenities for high population densities. Intensifying properties with existing property improvements (although much higher density zoning may make those improvements moot) comes with a premium as well...

The standard for "living" in the tens of thousands of units built in the last year is equally unimpressive and arguably worse than ten or twenty years ago. I just read an article that Riocan is divesting of all residential properties and development sites citing the return on investment is not...