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OK, That's it... I officially love Skyjacked! Thank you so much for your 360 panorama video. No music, no voice over... just skyscraper porn for the geek in all of us. If you have any pull with your Crane-operator Brothers/Sisters in the business, please convince them to join Urban Toronto and...

The first thing I thought of when I saw the images of the rehearsal was "The Falling Man" famous photograph of the events of 9/11, but that is because the above images are still-images and not the graceful ballet that motion would convey. Just because it was the first thing that I thought of did...

The render makes them look like a Sci-Fi dystopian-version of a high-density, maximum security prison a la Brazil, 5ifth Element or Blade Runner. (Ironic, considering the the Gehry in Springfield ended up becoming a maximum security prison.) Or, at the very least, three near-Supertall Toronto...

I tend to agree with this statement. It was a missed opportunity not to take a 21st Century spin on the Eatons College Park Deco look of the 1930s. Which was a much grander take on the department store aesthetic. It could have been Neo-Deco. Tall entrance-ways with glass and brass and subtly...

This is formally known as the Skyscraper Index: From the Wikipedia article: It's a fascinating article.

I am looking for a contemporaneous article, but if my memory serves, I do remember that was the talk when the theatre was announced. It was being purpose-built for Miss Saigon but it was not permanent. According to the Toronto Star theatre critic: Richard Ouzounian...

The Princess of Wales theatre was always a placeholder for future development. When it was built, they said it was a temporary venue for large, lavish productions but would make way for growth when needed...

I am all for good development for Toronto and I applaud the audacity of the scale of this project, I will even concede to having the Dr.Seuss of architects designing them, but I am put off by the "Three in a Row" wall-like effect the project imbues. Some height variations would be nice. However...

It's called "Stainless" Steel for a good reason. The brushed stainless steel of CCW has always caught the light in various ways. As has the mirrored glass. It shows dark in some light and bright in others. I watched CCW get built 40 years ago and it looks almost exactly the same today. The...

I disliked the strips of crumpled paper on the podium as being so iconically Gehry that it almost looked like a caricature of his own work and it seems many people feel the same way. So much so, that Gehry himself had to address the critics: Excerpt from an article in the Winnipeg Free Press...

Personally, I can't stand Gehry. Like most geniuses, he is one dimensional. I believe he saw a shape in a dream as a child and has spent the rest of his life trying to manifest it in reality. Everything is just a variation on the same theme. The same goes for Libeskind, Calatrava and the...

I am fairly busy with an ongoing project for work, but I'll give it a try. (Meh, I don't feel like working anyway) Or maybe kris would want to take on the challenge and carry on with his render and fill in the ones you want? BTW, do you want Proposals such as 80 Bloor ST West et al, or just...

Sounds like a challenge to me. :cool:

sMT I fixed it for you. ;)

I realize Japanese is spoken with flat inflection and each syllable has the same emphasis, However... How different that noodle bar could be pronounced in English is frightening: MOM-o-fuk-u Just sayin' what an American tourist will probably read it as. :rolleyes: Oh... and great...

Please don't suggest common sense or tolerance on here. This is the Internet and is only the place for huge egos, narcissistic belief structures, imflamitory opinions, jumping to conclusions and knee-jerk reactionary thinking. Any clear-headed, rational comments will be considered Trolling and...

AHhhhhh SUH-weeeeeeet! :) Thanks rdaner!!!! That would be much appreciated. I live in Ottawa and my telephoto lens is not that good, or I'd take them myself. LOL If possible, if you could include some sky with the tops of the buildings in them and down towards the Yonge & College intersection...

isaidso, I have never forgotten nor ceased to search for the perfect image to do the render. :) The extra picture from the MaRS thread helps fill out the view, but once stitched together you see it is still incomplete. I need someone to take several clear, overlapping images, in late...

^That is the exact place (2 Carlton) from which I need a whole bunch of pictures of College Park. Enough to stitch together to see the entire block. Many people have asked me to do a render of what the whole block would have looked like if they had actually built the whole complex Eatons was...

Workers and Ho's? That is news? That strip has always had that kind of trade going on... OH!!!! Construction Workers. Now I get it. :D Still can't believe they didn't save the house for a James-Cooperesque revival. What a grand entranceway it would have made for a future Condo Tower.