Recent content by Strange Advance

"No. 31." A downright prosaic name like that does absolutely nothing to inspire interest or confidence. Matter of fact, this is the first time I have ever looked at this thread, though I have scrolled past it before. I should have done so again.

Unbeknownst to kotsy, "Kotze" means vomit in German, so that often springs to mind for me, as much as I appreciate his pics.

There certainly are people who would much rather live in downtown Toronto, in a skyscraper, with a nice southern view of the lake, than in a suburban SFH, but 400-500 sq. ft. is barely enough room for one person, much less two or more people, and unrealistic PSFs must come down for this to have...

Ugh, AI! But I doubt AI would produce a low-res render that looks like it's from 2003.

Pinnacle should resize the units and include a good chunk of rental, in my mostly uninformed opinion. Almost nobody wants 400-500 sq ft investor cubbyholes. Those days are over. People need and want living space, especially when they're paying 800 Grand and up. If you're a family of four...

Skyscrapers are not a sine qua non of great cities. Many great cities have very few. I happen to be a skyscraper aficionado, but I don't agree that they are an essential feature of urbanity.

The endless blue-and-grey homogeneity of facades is depressing, but my main disinclination is to skyscrapers with purely flat glass exteriors (curtain wall) with no variety. To me, almost anything that breaks up the monotony of plain glass is a welcome feature, including balconies. These Phase...

Is our friend Contra around to do up a progress diagram for us? ;)

^Love the perspective on the first shot.

Thanks, I did not remember that. It wasn't much of a height increase though, was it?

I surmise C-Mac was thinking of Uptown Residences, which I was, too.

That would be great. It would create a bit of an equalizing visual effect to everything that is going on east of the CN Tower.

SSP member TorontoDrew noticed some serious-looking construction on-site recently, but I strongly assume nothing is starting here, or Northern Lights would have dug it up and reported it.

That's a cogent comparison. I would love to see the NY Towers disappear, or at least those appalling crowns. Even Vegas would reject those as too tacky.

Those are quite ugly, imo, with the aggressively extruding individual balconies.