This is embarrassing for the the architect, the developer, and city planning whose policies put us in this situation. redo, start over, this is dumb. Ugh.
"Among the adjustments made to the building design were setting its average height to 33.6 metres across its three roofs, a reduction of more than five metres from the original proposal. The tallest portion of the building to the north of the site will now have a height of 35 metres, with the...
The retail on the corner building has been closed for ages due to safety reasons. If the interiors are in such bad structural shape, a facade may be its only hope, no?
Love everything but find the giant planters (and possibly an arcade?) a horrendous choice for Spadina frontage. Keep the fine grain retail, somehow please.
eta: it appears there is patio space along spadina. Still doesn’t explain the arcade to me.
Okay I get that @concrete_and_light but maybe if that is the case this shouldn’t be a food hall in this way.
In an effort to monetize every square inch down here, whoever is developing this is creating a space where there is no there there.
What if this space had retail/commercial around it...
I mean, sure why not. This is weird and I like that.
This can work but unclear to me why the underground portion wouldn’t be more open to the elements.
Context is more than what buildings literally exist next to a proposed building though, right? There’s more to this than massing.
Explanations of why buildings can’t be built in places using this type of narrow definition (what built form exists) don't cut it, in my opinion.
Why would a...
There is no good reason to keep this site low rise. If one wants to argue that context is important, well then. Context is important. This building is literally on the subway line. we should utilize this asset. It could not get any closer.
There are high rise buildings near this site. There is...