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Since this is all-rental, perhaps it can get going with relative speed. I like the design, apart from the ridiculous "Torontoism" of the heritage century homes at the base. Contrarily, maybe this bizarre style of heritage retention will become a kind of quirky, oddball practice charmingly...

Oddly, to me it registers visually as shorter than 1,150 ft.

Sometime before the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs the Earth?

I know, "Ugh, spandrel!", and 11 YV is much-disliked here by most commenters, but I genuinely like the look of it. Personal aesthetic preference. So many Toronto skyscrapers are interchangeable, especially in terms of cladding, but 11 YV looks like nothing else in T.O., with its beige-brown...

EX1 is topped out. It is this building in the centre of UT member drum118's image: No idea what AlbaStak36 is, but Stak36 1 and 2 are topped out. The heights have not been publicized, but look, according to SSP's diagram pages, to be about 570 ft and 390 ft respectively. Image thanks to...

I think we should expect more from an elevator.

True, thanks for pointing it out. In scrolling quickly past, as I usually do, I didn't notice the shot's artistic merit. It looks like it could be a poster of X Condos, with a bottom corner torn off to reveal a concrete skeleton underneath.

Northern Light hitting us hard with the approvals today.

I don't mind the overall design at all, which seems an unpopular opinion. The previous design was a knockoff of 1BE, which was itself derived from others. But I don't understand: If Council has endorsed a settlement, why is the OLT involved?

There were two Notices of Public Meeting in yesterday's Star regarding this development; both meetings take place on 1.13.2026 at 10 am in Committee Room 1 at City Hall. One pertains to amending the address from 5 Huntley to 2-8 Earl St. The other is an application for demolition. The height...

I'm the antipode of a corporate apologist, but if you have a job, and your employer wants you in the office, then you need to be in the office if you wish to keep your job.

Sorry, I somehow missed christiesplits's post about the Star article, and posted it a second time.

There was a front-page article in the Star today about the second tower. It is officially paused, but not cancelled. Frank Gehry’s ‘legacy’ Toronto condo moving ahead, but second tower paused due to market crash (n.b. The punctuation error in the bolded part above is the Star's, not mine.)...

My "fine" comment pertained to the exterior design of the building. I would not object to seeing this skyscraper at Yonge/Bloor, but no doubt, the investor-geared mini-condos are problematic and hopefully a thing of the past. The only minor objection I have to the exterior design is the rather...

I hope all the doomsayers here are proven wrong, and that Forma 2 and many or all of the existing major proposals see fruition eventually.