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The white panels on the last picture posted look like somebody crumpled up a sheet of paper, unraveled it, then pasted it on. I'm not worried though. Once it's complete everything would look put together.

I lived here for a year after bolting 2 months before my lease was up. There was at least 1 fire alarm problem every two weeks for the 10 months I was there. Imagine having an exam at 9am and after a long night of cramming you finally try to get some sleep, only to be awake by loud fire alarms...

I think the bland architecture is because real estate is thought of as investment vehicles and not places of residence. Investors would not care about the design as they won't be living there and want the lowest cost possible. Of course this is also in response to the increased demand as people...

The only concern I have with this going forward is that there is a chance they might cheap out on the residential portion. Using less appealing glass than the glass in the office portion.

In the north elevation picture the tower on the left looks like it has a growth on it's side that looks like the bottom half of Aura. 285m is great because it would be taller than Aura and there wouldn't be so much focus on its monstrosity.

I always wonder how this Bay location even makes money..

Toronto needs a clock tower like this: Now imagine how the locals would react if simply just the clock tower in the middle was proposed anywhere in the city :D

Will the buildings at the southwest corner of Spadina and Wellington remain low rise and untouched? Or are they saving that for future development?

The quality of the mullions and spandrel will make or break this aesthetically.

Nordstrom literally looks like a carbon copy of The Bay on the other side of the mall. Uniqlo on the other hand really looks pretty cool from outside.

Yeah im sad about Sapphire as well. This isn't a bad building it's actually pretty nice in isolation compared to other condos in the city, but the financial district is a pretty awful place for this. I really don't appreciate how it blocks the view of FCP from NPS. Also, I think the land would...

There's a Lick's on Warden at Eglinton as well.

I'm equally as impressed with this, I used to live at Chestnut Residence and used to walk by this to get to campus everyday and was a bit sad to see it dismantled but the quality of glass here is really great. I would have preferred it if the steel frames were external. Also I think an important...

I like this proposal now as well but you can't really compare it to the previous versions. I believe it only looked like Lego blocks because that wasn't really the design just place holders site the placement of buildings and their heights. I like the brick use in this one as well.

Ah, cause it seems like the windows on the precast portions of the tower are colored black. It would have been nice if it was uniform throughout the tower.

Is the spandrel here getting painted black?

It looks beautifully simple from Nathan Phillips.

Question: If I get on at a subway station, grab a transfer for POP, subway down to Spadina station, get on the street car going South, and then I miss my stop, can I get off and take the street car going north again to catch my stop? Or will I be fined $200+ for illegal use of street car?

Ironic, it's the NIMBYs that make me think of Rob Ford. For some reason residents of tall buildings in the area that own cars think they have the right to traffic free roads near them simply because "they were there first". To the poster earlier that said they live in the area and how this...

The rush was to prevent this project from getting stuck in the city's beurocratic jam made from NIMBY-berries.