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My eyes just got punched in the stomach.

I like the white spandrel you’ve applied Lashlan Holmes. I also agree with The Six’s comments regarding the dull north face. It looks oppressive and it abandons the vernacular of the other three sides.

I’m not crazy about the large blank wall on the 4th (5th?) story.

The Star article states that the final stages (4 and 5) will take 10 to 15 years to complete. This has to be a mistake. The entire project was originally slated to take 12 years to complete. It’s now been in construction for 12 years with roughly 70% of the old Regent Park site replaced or under...

Those elevator columns are massive. Makes sense for an office building. The engineering and buildout methods are old school and very efficient. Very different, in nearly every way, than “The One” at Yonge and Bloor..

There’s no “there” “there”. If I were king of the forest I would ban the construction of glass boxes in T.O.

W.K. Lis, I realize the new Ellington LRT will make it much easier to get to the Science Centre and also to the Aga Khan museum but I still think Ontario Place is a better site. The new relief line won’t be completed for at least another decade and the downtown core has so much more to offer...

My apologies if this has already been discussed. About ten days ago Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn wrote an intriguing article suggesting that the Ontario Science Centre would do well to move to Ontario Place...

I noticed the lack of activity as well but a couple days ago I noticed that the clock tower was moved back south to its original location. I wonder if the slow down has to do with securing the pad that the tower now sits on. It’s a very small sight and until a few days ago the excavator was...

I agree Kotsky. The north elevation looks pretty grim. Too bad.

There have been numerous developments proposed for this area for over a decade. Seems to me that nothing will happen until Moss Park is rebuilt and the Maxwell Meighen flop house is removed which will take many years. It would also be nice if the Feds donated the armoury land to the city but I’m...

Hard to believe that I opened this thread 7 years ago and still nothing has happened at Sherbourne and Queen Streets. In fact it’s gotten much worse. Blog TO recently published the following. https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/02/moss-park-toronto/ This intersection is a blight and city hall...

I’m not a big fan of the Munulife Centre, I kinda hate the look of raw concrete brutalist heaps, but this “reno” is hard to take. Yeesh, coudn’t they at least make an attempt to work with what was already there?

Excavation is going pretty fast on this project. Photo from Dec 15.

If the local residents force the designers of this beautiful proposal to reduce the height I just might leave the city in disgust.

I’m not surprised. Real estate, when it becomes a significant contributor of gdp, as it has in BC and Ontario, always attracts the kind of low lifes and con men that are outlined in the Star article. A shell game that moves debt and deeds around without contributing anything to society but...

By the way, I think a casino would be the most uninspired, shallow, unimaginative use for this site, so, it’s probably already fully lodged in the deep recesses of Doug the Thug’s alleged mind.

How about HQ3? Someone should contact Bezos again.

Beautiful! So nice to see a something other than a high rise getting (well deserved) accolades.

This is looking better all the time.