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I came to realize that's the reasons many people including myself see the waterfront quite negatively - despite all the events and stuff, the architecture and public space is horrendous and embarrassing. The Harbourfront Centre for example, is a pile of cr*p - a community centre in Kentucky will...

hopefully the damn thing will be gone by the end of the day and will never be mentioned, ever.

Nowadays, calm and fair people like you are hard to find. Usually whenever China does something right, people jump to find something wrong about it as an instinct. China is making the wise decision to aggressively expand its HSR system - knowing a country this populous and massive can't rely...

yeah, I am sure if it takes 3 hours to travel from San Diego to San Francisco, a lot more people will take it. North America's train system is stuck in the 1980s technology. The Toronto - Ottawa/Montreal service is utterly pathetic, and we blame passengers for not wanting to take them? LOL...

good job in finding faults in everything other countries have done well. Low ridership? Ridiculously high operating costs? Do you care to explain and compare it with Canada's? I took the Shanghai-Suzhou train last week, 105 km in 23 minutes, faster than if I travel from Queen to Finch station...

Why is everyone saying this will be mostly occupied by Ryerson students? Just because it is close to Ryerson? Does that mean every condo near UoT is mostly occupied by UofT students? What makes it so unappealing for non-students?

Your first sentence is not apparent from your conclusion while the second sentence makes absolutely no sense. Engaging personal judgment serves as an argument? Anyway, let's keep our opinions about the waterfront. International travelers will be the judge of how great it is.

the denial of shortcomings of Toronto never crease to amaze me. Toronto's downtown waterfront is a dull and uninspiring place that is neither interesting nor beautiful. The sooner we admit that, the earlier we can make real improvements. Seriously, do more international travel and you will...

17 million is not an impressive number considering it is the entire waterfront, although it looks big. The V&A Waterfront in Capetown has 50% more visitors in a much smaller city. Millennium Park alone has 4 million visitors. Navy Pier as a single destination attracts 9 million a year. The Bund...

In Toronto, we don't see to care about efficiency, but rather cater to every piece of whining and all sorts of frivolous demands. Walking 200 meters is too much - I don't see that argument anywhere in this world. Let's be honest, even downtown Toronto is not that dense by international standard...

I think he meant poor architecture and aesthetics in the surrounding area, which I agree with. If one thinks a chaotic/messy/dirty Chinatown is more authentic, he is completely mistaken. Our Chinatown should be cleaned up with a "nice" appearance.

It is so stupid to protest against a 4 story building. I would build 50 40s towers just to upset them.

based on the fact that everyone is entitled to an opinion? At least people will look at this building a second time, which already put it above 90% of other buildings in the city. On the front page it says max size is 640sf for 2 bedrooms? I live in a 650sf one bedroom and don't think it that...

Church between Richmond and the village is the area that really needs some help. South of Richmond it is actually the better part (too many surface lots though). Church/Queen and Church Dundas are easily two of the ugliest intersections in downtown.

You really think projects the scale of Sugar beach, Sherbourne Commons and Berczy Park will help to put Toronto on the international map? That's rather optimistic. Speaking of University Ave, I dream on day before I die, it may function like this instead of serving as a highway

Many of them will be, like any new condos. However, an Asian theme on the surface in terms of name or décor will do nothing to entice Asian buyers. You know what will entice Asian buyers? Have a mini-T&T at the base of the condo, that will be a huge draw; or provide free kara-okay as part of...

Apparent the only thing people know about the massive continent that is called "Asia" is people drink tea. yes, people know France, Norway, Spain or even Milan, but apparently Asia is just this one homogeneous continent where people consume tea. LOL. Agree. I waited like 3 years so far...

oh, come on. Since when beautifying old buildings and making them attractive again becomes a bad thing. I wish the entire Queen West looks like this building. It is Yonge st. Rent here is supposed to be expensive. I don't want crappy looking buildings on downtown Yonge at all. Cheaper stores...

if small and interesting retailers can't afford the space on downtown Yonge, they will find somewhere else to survive. It is not the end of the world. We should not prevent this area to be developed by market forces and try to twist the market so that these retails could stay where we want them...

I don' t think we need a park here. The land is too small, and such tiny parkettes will do nothing to improve quality of life downtown. There are quite a few of them east of Yonge between Carlton and Bloor as far as I know, and people hardly use them except walking by. If we want a park, then...