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Not a big Adumb Vaughan fan but he's good at running socratic on Rob Fraud.

I was gonna say, Ford made a great case for social spending.

*Stares pensively at a .gif of Ford falling over throwing a football*

I'd like to see a side-by-side comparison of density maps overlaid with transit lines of Toronto and several other cities with subways/LRTs. I think that would easily demonstrate how nutty this debate is for people with poor verbal reasoning skills.

Pretty much this. The fact that a main source was The Star provided an easy post hoc rationalization for people who didn't want to accept that they were taken in by this incompetent. Dismissing The Star is a pretty transparent ploy. I have no doubt people actually convinced themselves that's how...

Is that the B52s? God damn that is as embarrassing as this tower.

lol man. this thing dwarfs the CN tower

Damn, stirred up the hornet's nest trashing Harbour Square. Actually I had convinced myself they were apartments. I'm done here. I'm sure the dwellings inside are commodious and its dwellers are affable. I'm quite aware of the wasteland this area was before these colonizing projects started to...

In 15-20 years we'll be in the horizon for tearing down this damn thing. The retail makeover will buy it some time. Built in 1979, though it looks older. Probably the building I hate most in the city. They can raze Westin Harbour Castle too (1975). Disgraceful bunker architecture.

Great pic of a bad building. Honestly, that podium looks cheaper than a prefab aluminum shed. They need to cover that thing in ivy or something. Nasty stuff.

Not sure I dig the colours. They still remind me of the station wagons my parents had in the 80s.

The glass really sucks. I like the building's profile, but the glass is so dull. It looked scuffed and dirty as soon as it went on. Doesn't help that the material next door on the Dexia building is almost identical. Those buildings really underwhelm, especially from King Street where they...

My prosaic contribution. From the Malaparte Steps today: http://i.imgur.com/f0U4niH.jpg?1

"Oppressed" seems strong.

Don't think anyone is gonna get through to anyone else here. Personally, the warrant I accept for building them is simply their uniqueness. Not that these ideas haven't been on display in Gehry's ideas elsewhere, but their uniqueness for the city, especially in our sky of aquamarine-pricked...

Special duty from Sir Topham Hat to pick up the Minister of Trains.

This one exceeded my expectations, but I've been slightly annoyed since it was pointed out that the pattern repeats. Now that's half of what I see and it makes me think of wallpaper.

We're getting off-topic here, but Venice is doomed too: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/20/coming-death-venice/?pagination=false

I was imagining a Bud Dwyer situation, after which I'd say Hey Man, Nice Shot.

Anyway, just the fact that food and art aesthete Adam Gopnik is now talking about Rob Ford demonstrates the tenacity this story has. And as another poster previously wrote and I echoed, it's more evidence us that Toronto is now a fairly important place in the mental geography of non-Canadians...