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Toronto | The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners
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Not a standstill, but definitely impacted. Some trades are still able to work, but once they catch up to where the labourers left off...
May 9, 2022
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Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza
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It might end up being garish, but I'd be ok with Ikea re-cladding the podium to match the brand. Even if they replaced those limestone...
May 5, 2022
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UofT: Sidney Smith Hall Redevelopment (?s, ?)
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I'm not denying any of that history, but why is an extant building the only way to appreciate the 1960s context? The mythos of Sid Smith...
May 3, 2022
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Toronto | The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners
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183 is a little different. They're a multi-trade union, and huge. It's one thing if the pipe fitters or electricians or whoever walks...
May 3, 2022
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But the building isn't just a passive piece of information on a dusty shelf. It's a building that has thousands of people passing...
May 3, 2022
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I don't think McLennan is in any way inferior to Sid Smith, as a design representative of the time and context. I'd be much more...
May 2, 2022
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I'm not denying that my criticism is reserved for the function of the building. Nor am I suggesting that the sole purpose of a building...
May 2, 2022
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Toronto | The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners
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Is this one affected? I assumed this job was ICI?
May 2, 2022
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Ramsay Wright has a great (though small) lecture hall, the hidden gem of an ecological park along the south side, the layout of the...
May 2, 2022
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It's not just the exterior, or the unsympathetic additions, or the changing tastes in design. Sid Smith is programmatically a mess. The...
May 2, 2022
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Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s
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I find near side lights are often a lot harder to see because we (North America) also tend to put the lights up high. The European...
May 2, 2022
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Toronto | CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre
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Wow. Pity we can't just extend the overbuild park further west, and then reinstall a couple bays of the Bush shed as a pavilion up top.
May 2, 2022
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The cat's out of the bag. Once we let Royal York get away with it there's really no grounds to complain about the distances between...
May 1, 2022
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Were the steps on St George a later addition? I remember the building pre-enclosure of the overhangs, and I remember the old lobby, but...
May 1, 2022
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Toronto | Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners
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If those were matte colours, yes. But those shades of grey are stainless steel of varying finishes. If they actually clad 84 storeys of...
Apr 27, 2022
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