Recent content by TossYourJacket

While I couldn't care less about the car dealership part, as someone who plays sports at Cherry Beach Sports Fields in the summer, I'm kinda curious about the cafe.

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 is, and changing materials on half the building just leads to that weird look of buildings being glued together, and doesn't make the building look any smaller...

People voted for 10+ years of austerity, this is what they get as a result. There is a major difference between a government that was nearly driven into bankruptcy by the previous mayor and a building built by major investors including the Quebec provincial pension fund, with a major bank as...

I love the contrast between the beautiful headhouse building and the ugly mess that is the trainshed. Like we're so close to a truly beautiful train station but nope.

Plus in the case of Rogers, they own 1 Mt Pleasant. There's basically no chance they decide to replace a building they own with renting one from Oxford.

We could always bring back the 502 in some form or another!

I hope they use the Richmond and Adelaide tracks for the 503 when this is all done. Having the 501 on Queen, the 504 on king, and the 503 in the middle would be great. (and ideally the Richmond-Adelaide tracks get extended to Spadina as originally promised to help with the TIFF diversions)

The reason the seating was redesigned was to make the Skydome a true baseball park. The renovations that have happened aside from the seating would never have happened unless the conversion of the seating occurred. Rogers simply would not have spent the money. So the options here would have been...

IIRC the Science Centre building is owned by the City. It was just operated by the province. Doug would need to expropriate it to build condos. Which obviously he has the power to do, but it would create a lot of drama he might want to avoid. The fact the province hasn't seized it yet is...

I feel like 2 Queen West isn't tacky enough for Cheesecake Factory. They prefer their locations to look like a dictators palace, not a nice heritage restoration building. But maybe they could have finally learned to have some taste.

I'm not so sure that it has anything personally to do with Doug himself, more that it's about which government agency is delivering it. Every OL station except for East Harbour is being delivered by Metrolinx, which we all know is a deeply flawed agency, but is public facing and cares what...

Almost certainly the structural connection to the building is there. Will it open any time soon? Who knows, it's Metrolinx! They will never tell us anything (because imagine a government agency being accountable to the public lol) so it could be in 2 weeks, it could be in 10 years.

So the reason I'm a little skeptical is the new store still says "Pop-Up" on the windows. It also was a very low effort reno. No changes inside, the outside is clearly blue film over the old Banana Republic doorways. Wondering if it might be they put up a moved sign for now because it's taking...

Streaming is basically cable but more expensive already at this point. Everything is bundled (except Netflix who don't need it yet), except now you need even more services to watch sports, but like between the bundles and ads having been forced onto every platform, etc. we're back to cable but...

Ugh, I wish the architectural documents were still on the AIC. I can't remember if the glass portion is part of just part of the condo (which would make the most sense) or if they did internal transitions between floor heights within the office spaces.