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What a pile of shit. It's as much 'art' as the buildings behind it are great architecture.

If you are annoyed by people yelling about their personal beliefs on the street, imagine how I feel when I want to read the forum about buildings and here's some stupid crap about nazis.

Glad they are preserving the corner house, the new building is a bit of a clunker though. At least add a little colour so it isn't totally ghastly grey.

I agree with you there, although the houses further to the West are not amazing architecturally, and they are indeed all run down. This is one thing I really like about Mirvish Village: they not only preserved the original homes but are dividing the new facades into distinct sections along the...

Interesting brick work, the windows are nice, but it looks like it sucks on the street level. Hard to tell from lack of a render, but it looks like yet another boring glass wall, and a monolithic overhang above. At least extend the fancy brick work to the ground floor like King/Portland did. It...

The rest of the building looks even more drab now. I expect those static displays will be upgraded eventually. They should just expand the new screen across the entire building and turn it into a long, wavy ribbon. Would be pretty cool I think.

My thoughts exactly.

Awful. Even if it weren't replacing what is already a fine, though neglected building. Perhaps developers could attempt some creativity? Add units to the backyard instead and put a green roof on top and it would be a vastly more desirable property than this schlock.

I'm glad, his stuff is frankly garbage. This one was at least mildly interesting for the first 2 iterations where each tower had a distinct design. Now they are all the exact same, with a lazy offset box flourish on all 3. The offset box thing is already overdone, we have dozens in this city...

The glass is good quality but it just blends into the sky and other buildings. The dark cladding was much easier on the eyes and helped highlight the attractive stacked structure with solid colour panel edges and thin silver bands. It used to be a classy building.

The screen was on and running normal ads today. From the format of the ads it looks like this screen might be completed and the remaining space will be a separate display of some kind? It's actually a bit underwhelming as it's pretty dim right now and it doesn't look very large next to all the...

This cracks me up. Nike, Adidas and other major fashion brands still have sweatshops, Nestle causes deforestation and exploits child labour, FIFA looks the other way as hundreds of migrant workers die building stadiums, our own government happily does business with at least one country that...

I actually prefer LED displays in most cases. They are typically more legible at a distance than backlit screen displays and are much cheaper to purchase, maintain and program. You can also use special characters for our line symbols (like ①). When the TTC said they would add displays inside...

Not surprised. When the Spadina second entrance was being worked on there often wasn't an attendant there at all. Free rides for all.

Finally some real activity on the site. Shoring work has been going on for the past 2-3 days.

I think the PATH branding is still important to keep around as it's still the recognized name of the system and it is helpful when you're on the surface and looking for a portal down. Most of the connected buildings have the logo on a sign or something by the entrances, not sure if that's a...

New signs look much better. Clear, easy to spot and they even include travel times. It wasn't that great an idea to begin with. For colourblind users East/West was difficult to distinguish between.

I wish the Harry Rosen didn't jut out like that. It shouldn't extend any farther than the atrium wall above it in my opinion, it blocks the hall visually and physically in an annoying way for the benefit of some mannequins on display.

Is there any practical reason to use metal panels for the walls instead of plywood? Seems far more costly and would probably look just as ugly after it's been tagged, plastered with posters and dented.

Now this is how you use materials. Every surface seems to have a unique quality to it but it ties together very well thanks to careful style/colour choices and application. I'll be happy if it turns out like this render, the only part I feel could be improved are the unfinished concrete pillars.