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Artistry & Design - a new style perfect for our grey-spandrel-loving architects/ developers

I had lunch there today. It was busy, but easy enough to find a seat. The chicken rice from Eric Chong’s stall ($14) was decent, although the rice was a bit undercooked. I didn’t walk through the main food court at the Dundas end, so I don’t know whether the food hall diverts some business from...

So it’s no longer a Hyatt Centric?

Curves/kinks are sexy, but as we can see from this and Social, cladding matters. I'd rather see boxes done in high-quality cladding than all manners of twists and turns clad in trashy materials.

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Today. Putting finishing touches on the crown

When I saw the picture, I thought it was just the light that made it look like brutalist concrete panels, it was probably some beige/golden-ish vertical slats. I walked by to check it out this afternoon - yup, brutalist concrete panels. Probably could win an award for the ugliest YSL store...

Red towers! No podium! Is this really Toronto? Worry not, subsequent iterations will turn them into what we're more accustomed to.

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Including the 4th floor or was that added later? The pandemic compressed time, although it felt like forever during the lockdowns.

So Boston Pizza is gone? They just renovated the red brick heritage building and added the fourth floor like 4 years ago. New condo sales just hit 15 year low, developers won't be able to get 70% sales needed to start the project anytime soon. Unless this is a rental? This site will surely sit...

Today. The slant is barely visible in full frontal views (from Yonge), only from the sides. Hopefully, it will be more pronounced when fully clad. The currently flush southern half of the tower will also slant back from the 50th floor or so to the crown (mechanical penthouse), so that too may...