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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.

The design is fine, imo, but the shortage of elevators, first identified by a member here whose name escapes me, must be remedied. You can't have residents waiting 30 minutes or more for a ride to their flats.

Same here. My personal preference with skyscrapers tends towards boxy modernism, hence my affection for FCP and buildings of its sort, though even better are all those gorgeous old art deco buildings with all-brick and setbacks, of which we sadly have virtually none in Toronto. These Gehrys...

There's a reason for this, and that is to limit unnecessary deaths of birds, specifically migratory birds, many thousands of which used to die after slamming into well-lit highrise windows. I don't know if the number of deaths has dropped since, but it was a subject of newsworthy concern some...

I wonder if Contra or koops could do up one of their dual-patented visual progress diagrams of this tower for us.

Did the psychics move out of those houses?

Hey, I like the bon mot.

I agree. I just checked CN Tower observation-deck pricing, and it hasn't gone up substantially in a number of years, which is a good thing. It should not, because it's really not a very interesting experience on its own, in my opinion. It's not worth $47 per adult, though the Family Pass is...

360 has a big advantage in that it rotates once every 72 minutes, so you get to see the entire surroundings at least once during a dinner. Under the right circumstances, with a beautiful sunset and perhaps a Jays game underway 1,150 ft below, it can be a magical outing. However, 360 is priced...

Thanks for the edification. That's what I was afraid of, but then at least the hope remains that so-and-so long-dormant proposal might eventually commence.