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Are the Cinesphere and pods supposed to be come part of the new Science Centre?

My guess is the precast is to anchor the bottom half of the tower back to the heritage facades. Having glass shoot up from a 3 storey...

Yeah exactly. I feel like a lot of our architecture firms are obsessed with "breaking up the massing" but like, the massing is what it...

Also interesting to see how the final towers turned out. At one point no other project led to more speculation than the final Cityplace...

Why did they decide on beige panels? Hard to see them aging well. I'm curious why they went with this particular design choice. The...

^Agree. It should look fine from the north/south, and not-so-fine from the east/west. I do like the white accents though, and wish...

A bit hyperbolic, if you ask me. I’ve been to 57 countries and I can tell you that there are many cities with architecture worse than...

Honestly, for a billion dollars, we should be able to build our own Sydney Opera House. I'm fine with this, I trust HP and Snohetta to...

I don't mind the design, but can't help but feel I should be more impressed for a $1 billion project. Hard to justify it being smaller...

+1 The downtown and all our major arterial roads could eventually get built out but Toronto will never shine till we completely...

This would be an attractive building if they just stuck with the brown. It looks like two different buildings awkwardly stuck together.

Not a very pretty building IMHO.

The Ontario Place station proposed earlier in this thread is a great idea in my opinion. It's a major regional destination that needs to...

Today.

(Or perhaps a heated rivalry between this and One Bloor West? 🏒 🥅 🏙️♥️). Today’s sun-drenched photos. Baby, it's cold outside but this...