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The signs on the platforms were flip signs that changed the name of the terminus station as the particular train entered the station and a bell rang as the sign flipped. I recall reading that people would stand on the stairs to see which platform their train would be on, so it wasn't an arrow...

Doesn't seem very thick for a transfer slab?

The rendering show what looks like aluminum cladding on the sound wall. I guess those brackets will be used to affix the cladding?

Very mid-century retro. Here's a retail entrance at Bentall Centre in Vancouver (But I think they have plans to redo it): https://modtraveler.net/city/vancouver_694/listing/the-bentall-centre/

Not an expert, but maybe it's rusty where it'll be boxed-in and painted gray where it will remain exposed inside the mechanical rooms.

You'd think they could make them to order and that would avoid the cold tomato.

That's it for soundproofing between theatres?

What about Sweat and Tonic (might they back out?) and who is in the office space above it? The upper mall level plus 3 or 4 floors would yield about 100,000-120,000 sq ft. That terra cotta (?) facade would make a fine department store! Has anyone seen any escalators delivered to that building...

Blends in well with the neighbouring limestone government building though.

There's was a 3-storey Tudor Revival apartment building (1928) on Beach Ave. in Vancouver whose facade was preserved when a condo tower was erected on the site in the 1990s - Tudor Manor. If this one gets redeveloped, maybe they'd do the same.

It just occurred to me seeing this pic - would the copper-brown tones of the glass end up similar to 2 Bloor West?

That's a MKII car, the MKIIIs have larger windows, and no potlights.

They're the general contractors, not the architects / designers. Well done on the implementation side. Not at all on the design side.

That's a big tree on the deck. Never noticed it before.

2 Queen project pivots from restoration to re-creation https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/projects/2022/11/2-queen-project-pivots-from-restoration-to-re-creation

Yeah, it should be on the shorter part of the tower so it can be seen.

I can see the white vertical bar on the bus traffic signal.

From the Menkes twitter Oct 27th. That pattern really stands out. and a video of the crane being taken down posted November 1st:

Nice! It's so much longer than it really needed to be. Great that it wasn't downsized.

Black ceilings, here and n various retail environments (i.e. Indigo) remind me of the Star Trek scenes with black backgrounds filmed on sound stages where it's meant to be in another dimension or a void zone.