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Oh, absolutely – I hadn't seen this thread earlier and was scrolling down from the top of this page, thinking "well, that's an obvious fiction, let's see what'll actually get proposed... oh."

ah, there's that toronto touch we all know and love. it's that little something less

Point taken. :)

Bold statement for a boom that's included Design Haus, or Orca, or Social, or...

Surely the current status quo – the fact that large swathes of the city core are untouchable because so much extant two-storey low-density housing is sacrosanct – is itself a cumbersome ideological constraint, one that drives proposals to tear down large, handsome concrete buildings which are...

This is astonishingly wasteful, both from an architectural standpoint and from an environmental one.

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From the "there's no accounting for taste / never listen to the general public" department, I was having a drink on the Betty's patio the other week and the people at the table behind me were discussing this building, and none of them liked it! I felt like I was taking crazy pills. Anyway, this...

Same! I cut down that laneway almost every day and it's a cute little building.

Little Nicky's. I don't think they ever did. It's a shame, it was v cute.

By Sephora standards, that's downright calm!

I wasn't a huge fan of the previous proposal (mostly around ensuring affordable units and rentals in an area that really needs them), but it got a lot right. But these? These are depressing. The heritage retention is predictably abysmal, too.

Looks great! Those plastic bins though 🤦‍♀️ I swear, this cheap-as-muck city never misses a chance to foot-gun itself

What? You wouldn't want to buy a City University of Toronto sweatshirt with "See You Next Tuesday" printed on the back?

There's been a similar "urban marsh" at Corktown Common for years and I'm fairly certain nobody's died from tropical diseases as a result.

I dunno, I just can't unsee it:

What beautiful fictions!

As Marc Bolan sang, "Get it on / Bang a gong / Eglingtong"

Is that permanent public art? It's fun! Love the burst of colour, especially since this is a view terminus coming up Oakwood.