Recent content by nightstreak

@kotsy How long did it take for her to notice that your name is on the picture she stole?

I love the look of this black point tower that has suddenly sprouted up next to One Bloor West. *It's the scoreboard at Varsity. I had to look at it a few times to understand what I was looking at.

Possibly nothing but I thought I'd mention anyway. Walking to work this morning, I noticed an entourage of suits touring the retail space. Is Tridel shopping the retail and hotel or do they already have prospective tenants they're negotiating with? Nothing has come across my radar which I've...

Tzatziki is moving to Eglinton Avenue where businesses were completely decimated by the Crosstown. Theres some cosmic joke there.

Work on the Bay East Teamway lobby is wrapping up. Escalator stairs were disassembled and are now being reassembled. Looks like they’re just correcting deficiencies before opening up at least this part of the lobby. I noticed Presto machines were just added. Meanwhile a corridor from Bay...

UrbanToronto’s ads are suddenly on point 🎯 …so now we know who to blame for fabricating the thing.

CIBC Square has opened a path from the Bus Terminal lobby (let’s call it that for the sake of distinction) to the future plaza which is still undergoing paving work. An emergency exit was in my view the only remaining barrier to opening the bridge. This provides that. Emergency Exit signage...

You made the security guards drop their donuts.🍩

It’s been a long time but I recall that corners were cut to achieve the “main events”, Galleria Italia along Dundas and Walker Court. Aspects of the original scope were left out. The members lounge was updated years later sans-Gehry. If there’s any indication that the AGO couldn’t afford him...

I think you may be right. They’re working around the clock so it’s possible workers are working on long shifts with sleeping breaks. As excavation wraps up, the pace of trucks has dropped significantly and they’re no longer being serviced on the Queen door and only rarely on the University...

Execution. Is it not obvious or am I about to spoil the AGO for you because once you see it, you can't unsee it. Gehry created organic forms in his architecture and this staircase has unnatural kinks to the flow of the forms, whose only explanation is that it would have cost more to engineer a...

Premier of Toronto 4 Life will get what he wants. Have you met Doug Ford? He'll dissolve City Council and the Mayor's office if our city has the temerity to govern ourselves.

I'll never get over how janky that outside stair is. The curves don't even line up. It's like Frank Gehry had a vision and then the builders had poor hand eye coordination. In truth, it probably just got VE'd to death.

The bridge lands behind the lobby separated by a wall, with escalators leading down to the Bay East Teamway. CIBC Square has given this some thought. They don't want hoards of commuters walking through their lobby. Landings on both sides of bridge are now complete. I say this opens on Monday...

That's the thing. Nobody on City Council likes Brad Bradford. Not even those on the right. Olivia Chow has made some very odd friendships. Do you hear anyone bad mouthing the Mayor besides Bradford? The usual suspects are pretty quiet because she's very easy to work with and surprisingly...