I wish we could get beyond the height debates as they always essentialise a project down to how tall it is. Tall is perfectly fine and this is a a place in the city to have tall. That said, the streetscape on this section of King is one of my favourites and I fear that this project and the one...
Yes seems to be the usual anti-height rhetoric..not enough parking etc etc. Barrie needs more intensification..not less. It is funny that the residents of the high rise condos next door seem to be generating most of the negative comments, when they themselves are living in buildings that other...
Actually the downtown has come a long way and it is a beautiful waterfront. Did Harmony Village get the height increase approved. 30 storeys will seem tall in Barrie.
Didn't anyone think that it was strange that they held a design competition, including voting by the public, and then announced that THREE firms won and the competing firms all had to collaborate together on an all-new design that nobody actually voted or judged? This sounds like a recipe for...
Let us be ambitious and sustainable at the same time. I would rather have 5 towers in that very dense cluster at 1 Yonge, and have one of them be a super tall of 120 storeys that is architecturally significant than 6 mediocre 70-ish storey towers. Perhaps allowing a few more supertalls in empty...
This is the type of avenue level, mid-rise densification the city needs.
But how long do you think it will be before the neighbouring detached home dwellers get up in arms about height (even though only six storeys), parking, traffic etc etc etc. the usual concerns.
The Globe and Mail needs to be downtown. A suburban location is just wrong for this kind of sophisticated broadsheet of record. The reporters and management need to be downtown. Sure land is cheaper in the suburbs, but imagine the cost to the brand and the culture of the newsroom.