Recent content by UrbanFervour

Brutalism is "in" again. It just goes to show how architecture can be trendy and disposable, just like fashion.

Finally we're getting the gimcrack PoMo Acropolis we've always wanted and needed.

It would have been easy to use pavers with a pink or even a taupe tint to warm up the otherwise somber architecture. We are getting another expanse of greyness. Before someone says "it can't be done", the same architect/developer team sourced red and brown pavers at Woodward's in Vancouver and...

Did HPA draw inspiration from spina bifida?

A cedar ceiling would be nice for the Gardiner

It's nice to see characterful old buildings get preserved as facades - but why do the new buildings need to be completely devoid of any features altogether... couldn't the white cladding at least have had some visible relief pattern or something? These stations would make perfect billboards...

It seems like a no brainer to locate density on on top of a subway station in the downtown core (the entire Yonge line south of Rosedale station, for example). Is it clear why these two sites aren't being developed with higher-density buildings on top?

This whole place looks a bit joyless & grim. Like what the Eaton Centre might look like in the Upside Down.

An ersatz Uno Prii-inspired tower randomly emerges from a disjointed, featureless, 3-storey podium (groan) of brick masonry. This being 2023, the latter is punctured by predictably awkward openings of various shapes and sizes, like an infant's box puzzle. I suppose this mashup design is meant...

Just what this city needed - more enormous twin towers that look like they were designed by accountants

Here is the text of the former mayors' letter: Dear Mayor and City Councillors, We, former Mayors of Toronto, request you to re-consider the decision to re name Dundas Street. We question the interpretation of the research leading to that decision and the practicality of carrying it out...

The point of this is to make a big spectacle of expunging a white man from the public sphere so unless you can find someone named Dundas who is BIPOC, LGBTQ or in some other way NOT a white or a cisgendered male, it's a non-starter. My guess is the street will be renamed by an unelected...

They're knocking down half of 300 Sherbourne for the courtyard but other than that it's a pretty exciting proposal. Love the masonry tower

75 more storeys of meh to add to the rest of the meh. 🤷‍♂️

II guess this is an improvement on the Courtyard Marriott but I'm not sure this will do much to reinvigorate Yonge Street as a vibrant retail zone.