Recent content by thecharioteer

Believe me, I would love to be proven wrong! Toronto is great at the grand gesture (Grange, Berczy), not so great at maintenance. I would love to know if the fountains are working again at Trinity Square, Courthouse Square and Centre Island. Have things truly changed since Marcus Gee wrote...

How long did it take to repair the fountain at Queen and University? Five years? I know that landscape architects are reluctant to propose water features of any kind in city parks as they know they will not be maintained. In the meantime, how many $100's of millions have been collected by the...

1974:

The movie was "Gimme Shelter" and it played at Cinecity, which used to be in the old post office on the NE corner of Yonge and Charles.

In the article, Matlow says: “By having three towers, we ended up doing something extraordinary in that something like 44 per cent of the property ended up as open space,” he said. Can we now declare that the much-maligned "tower-in-the-park" school of urban design is now alive and well in...

If this proposal was a school project, I could appreciate it on a certain level. However this Baron Hausmann urban-planning approach to turning Glencairn Avenue into a Grand Boulevard (while expropriating/demolishing hundreds of some of the most expensive houses in the city between Bathurst...

Unlike the Adi application, this one complies with the setback standards of the Tall Building Guidelines. The only issue will be height,

It sounds to me like the appeal has been narrowed to only the heritage issues of the case.

Could the issue be that this sounds like a Superior Court decision, (rejecting the City's appeal), not one from LPAT?

The monthly maintenance fees will be horrendous.

Building the Spadina subway south of Eglinton 1975. Caption in the TPL: A huge hole where the Spadina subway will be running some day is all that remains of Everden Rd., in the Eglinton-Bathurst area. The noise and dirt in houses Metro owns in the construction area are so bad that a Metro...