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Best I can do is a Rexall and a dentist.

It also gives the optical illusion that Scotiabank North is 3x as wide as it really is, due to the reflections of the towers. Honestly, it's a really classy complex. It's not architecturally loud, but rides the line of visual interest to the architecture nerds like us but completely blends in to...

I'd go so far as to wager that CIBC has had their hand in the design of the building for quite some time, working collaboratively with Hines at a confidential level before any lease agreement was ever announced. These types of rebrands at this scale of retail and presence are typically in the...

Some say that if you look in the dictionary for 'Delusions of Grandeur' the Concord Adex logo is right next to it... Time Warner Centre and the TransAmerica Pyramid, dear lord. neither of these developments are anything like this. Which copywriter that hasn't spent a minute in development came...

Nothing animates a streetscape more economically efficiently than a restaurant patio. This is a pretty ideal site for one, and it confounds me that pinnacle decided to go with 'random corporate "art"'. Overall, this development is founded on great ideas, but upon inspecting the details (south...

Photo credit @sammmy... is that a building footprint I spy?

In my experience working with retail tenants, location preference is usually based solely on amount of foot traffic per day and then access to loading areas, in that order. YMMV though. Every company has different real estate goals.

gh3 are making really great work these days, and this building is full of influences from them. The scallops are almost reminiscent of a lot of the PoMo architecture Toronto midrises have, especially in the Annex and this area. Really nice throwback, and if executed well could look very...

Ballroom, Jack Astors, Fifth Social Club and some others banded together during the first reopening last summer to provide a Tapas-like restaurant patio with 'food trucks' from each restaurant to socially distanced groups in that parking lot. They were very much figuring it out last summer...

Execution is reminding me a lot of the "Triangle Park" condos at Queen and Abell - here's hoping the interiors and management doesn't follow in their path, same with the fate of their builder.

Pandemic put a hold on many marketing spends - the rebrand was very likely pushed back several months, complicating the logo install on CIBC square.

So like, are the fins on the north elevation supposed to make us think 'jail'?

It's kinda funny, watching an actual game of Monopoly occur in Toronto.

It's a lot less of an obsession as it is a planning policy - minimum setbacks from property lines vary from 3 to 12 meters, and maximum floorplate of 750 sqm. See the full tall buildings guidebook that shapes Toronto's blandness here...

Yellow in particular - think about when you wear a pair of reflective-tinted yellow sunglasses. The world outside tends to appear... greener. If you've ever been in an office at 200 Bay (RBC) then you'll understand why developers don't do this. Tenants are not attracted to looking out their...

Let's also acknowledge that this building is chasing LEED Platinum certification, and as such the office lights will be kept to timers and sensors with minimal lighting kept on 24/7. Also, construction lights are rarely diffused/covered in any way, and are far harsher than office lights. We'll...

I just realized that one of the 3D modelers at BIG must play Grand Theft Auto V: https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Ponsonbys

I'm going to guess the holy grail of disengaged street level: blocked out windows of a Shoppers, blocked out windows of a dispensary, blocked out windows of an LCBO....

In due time that'll be a lovely, landscaped terrace where young 20-somethings plot new ways to harvest our data...

How odd might it be to be time-travelled to Toronto from that period and hear someone give directions to a restaurant "South of Front St."