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They've started bricking the old inn on the south side of the building. They're about halfway up the first floor. Amazing to see those old bricks back in place!

I agree. Especially considering that this is the last year the festival will still have a footprint on Bloor. This would have been a perfect opportunity to show off the street to the stars/critics/filmmakers in attendance before they all move downtown to the Ritz next year. Lost opportunity.

It was amazing to finally visit the rooftop garden the other day. The sounds of the city just fade away. Not quite as nice as the High Line in NYC because of the lack of water features, but still quite beautiful. And it shows off just how wonderful Viljo Revell's structures are as well...

Great article about this project in today's Star:

Rather than waste their time protesting this, which is going to be approved, they should come back next week and cross the street to protest the 6th Anniversary of the TTC closing the Y&E bus bays. 6 years of weeds and crumbling concrete is a major disgrace. 6 years of TTC fares rising while...

Not only does the original rendering show windows, but there's actually excitement behind those windows. How RioCan ever ever allowed Future Shop to locate their staff room along the windows facing the square is beyond me. How can you convince advertisers there's value to having their ads...

It's not the same thing. If I'm buying a house that the previous owners built with special permission from the city to build a larger home in exchange for allowing the public to use the back yard and keep it beautiful, then once I take ownership of the house, I am under the same obligation to...

You're right, so much more could have been done with it - trees, benches, planters. I think RioCan neglected the square purposely so they could get this expansion passed. That being said, I do like their expansion plans and appreciate they left some modicum of a square - which they'll actually...

RioCan has built a publicly accessible showing room for their proposed expansion across from the Metro on the ground floor concourse of the mall. In the middle of the room is a huge model of the buildings with their increased height and new greenish-blue glass cladding and the retail expansion...

This is long, long overdue. This prime land has been vacant for 5 1/2 years. And even if everything was to move fairly rapidly from here on out, it's likely 2 years longer until excavation begins - and another 2 for building. That's approx. 10 years. And that's if things move rapidly. And...

Those purple signs aren't blank. The writing is on the other side. They announce the new project.

They were projected onto the east side of the building. The projector was set-up in the bldg on the NE corner of King & John (above the Tim Hortons). Looked pretty cool. A homeless fellow lying in front of Metro Hall was watching the movies and when I passed by he said "This is all I've ever...

From today's Star: There are a couple sketches of the two visions as well, but I'm having trouble posting them. They can be seen here: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/650295

I think it's hilarious that this is one of 5 projects that Toronto Life said was "destined to rise on time" in their recent article about potential cancelled projects. Guess not. http://www.torontolife.com/features/castles-sky/?pageno=1

Noticed that the sales office has been demolished today. Anyone know if this is starting excavation? Or is it a no-go?

that's good from the perspective of people driving on the gardiner, but from inside the building, the northern wall is still a wall instead of windows overlooking high park. i get it if there's nothing to look at, but it's an incredible view.

the "park" i think they are referring to is high park as you can see the towers clearly from there. but what i find strange is that they didn't put windows on the north side of the building facing the park. although we don't have pics of the north side, besides one strip of windows down the...

Actually, I just found this online: 5 storeys to the 20 Eglinton Avenue West Tower 7 storeys to the 2300 Yonge Street Tower

Permit application signs were put up last week in the square, stating that RIOCAN has applied for a permit to allow a 5 st extension on one tower and a 7 st extension on the other + extension to retail at grade. It doesn't specify which tower is getting what extension or where the retail...