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Meanwhile, work continues on the Bloor Street bridge. They’ve dug out a fair portion of the abutment on the south side, as well as a surprising amount of the road.

When you shoot most of the centipede but then the last little segment starts scurrying to the bottom of the screen.

To be fair, Shoppers always block their own windows with vinyl advertising clings, so this is actually an improvement.

Alternatively, let's send all conservatives to Cape Dorset. Sure it'll be chilly at first, but I'm sure the captains of self-reliance will pull themselves up by their bootstraps in no time. I can't believe you bumped a year-dormant thread for no reason other than to hate on poor people.

The SCP Wiki is a collaborative fiction site that's been running for at least a decade, about tales of the SCP Foundation, a fictional organization dedicated to studying and containing paranormal/alien/extradimensional phenomena. It's a great read, if you like mashups of sci-fi, urban fantasy...

Designers usually reach for mixed-case on signage – research has shown it to be more legible, possibly because lower-case letterforms are much more varied – the ascenders and descenders mean that from afar (or in low light, or for people with low vision), words have distinctive shapes, as...

You're right, and the pressure might already be starting? The building that houses Jam Factory and Merchants of Green Coffee (2 Matilda) has also been recently sold, apparently; Jam Factory is vacating: https://www.blogto.com/music/2021/06/jam-factory-toronto-closing/ This is a hella strikiing...

There goes the neighbourhood.

I used to work nearby and have sat here on a coffee break on a couple of occasions. The finishes are nice – the paving is quite cute, and it's a secluded little spot. You're right, "park" is a misnomer – they probably should have called it a "square". As far as "how it's used" – the answer, in...

Trying to deliver an attractive building. Look at that street-level cladding. It's the cladding equivalent of showing up to work wearing a stained bathrobe and a novelty T-shirt that reads "Who cares, I give up".

Possibly not for long; there was a story on BlogTO recently that the Geary space might get sold to some homophobic, scammy "church".

Is that... a freshly-added replica ghost sign?

G-g-g-ghosts!

Very much agree – this pocket is really great, and these sorts of spaces that are affordable and work well for artists and artisans are vanishing fast from the city. (Thinking offhand of the warehouse at Dupont and Ossington, the coffin factory on Niagara, the workshops and spaces that used to...

Sorry, but some of the construction equipment has been on-site for so long it's now heritage. That's the Sir John A Memorial Bobcat.

Fun flyover/flythrough of the new GH3 stormwater treatment facility. Maybe don't watch it full-screen on a 27" monitor like I just did. I'm gonna go lie down.

This is a unique little intersection: two streetcar lines merging, retail strips on a few sides of the property, lots of well-liked neighbourhood hangouts. There's great potential to do something really special with the pedestrian & public realm. Also, Lamb should have to keep the Master...

Not everybody's a narc. I can't get worked up about this; the handsome building itself hasn't been tagged, it's the concrete retaining wall, and I'm of the opinion that a bunch of wild-style lettering is more attractive than bare stained concrete. (I'm more annoyed by all the garbage scattered...

Go home, School of Continuing Studies, you're drunk.

I wish this development included a pedestrian connection over the Barrie line from Sterling to either Dora or Dublin. I am fully aware of the barriers to doing so; this is purely a selfish fantasy, as it would mean I could walk to Ethica or Henderson in under five minutes instead of 15-20.