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I completely agree. It looks incredibly banal to me, being *yet another* bunch of glass boxes in an endless sea of glass buildings built recently. Nothing looks more perfunctory to me than an entire structure coated in glass. Maybe the all-glass aesthetic was impressive in the '50s, but now it's...

I agree. I wish the City would just mandate or encourage a certain maximum width for at-grade retail, so that block-long banks would be precluded by the sheer physical space afforded them, or limit banks to the second floor, as I’ve heard has been done in N.Y.C.

Woah. Thank you!

What’s the building depicted in the rendering at the north-west corner of Bloor & Bay? I don’t remember a huge double-tower being/proposed there.

My problem is that it seems to mostly be comprised of glass cladding, which I’m SO sick of since almost every single building in this boom has the same blue crystal tower look. Hopefully it’s not just another glass tower. And why on earth would there only be one tower in this much space? There’s...

Ben Spurr tweeted “city staff are recommending against designating the Waverley Hotel as a heritage property”, as seen here.

Exactly; while it’s conspicuously unique, it’s simultaneously elegantly modest. It’s my favourite recent addition to our skyline.

Finally, something that’s not all glass. It’s so refreshing to see stone in a facade.

Ugh, so conspicuously perfunctory.

Yes, it’s their opinion, but some opinions are better than others as different opinions have different effects on the world. The opinion that nothing should be more than three or four storeys in such transit-accessible downtown areas is a destructive opinion because it leads to less efficient...

Exactly. Because Toronto is dominated by lowrises, the only way to achieve desirable density is to build highrises when possible. Not only are the buildings along streets like Spadina and College too often lowrise, but for each of these major downtown streets there are huge swaths of tiny...

I’ll never understand the argument that “you don’t need height to achieve density”. I could just as well say “you don’t need lack of height to achieve density”, so what’s wrong with height? And yes, midrise cities can be dense, but highrise equivalents are denser. If Paris’ buildings were taller...

It’s really exciting that it’ll be so tall in time for the parade this weekend. Last year it was just reaching grade.

Precisely! Well said. I like buildings to be taller because it’s better for the world, since it’s more efficient and sustainable, especially at such transit accessible areas like this one. Plus, I think it makes for neighbourhoods that are culturally richer, more interesting, less alienating...

Whether the pharmacy is new or not is irrelevant; it’s way too short, given the prominence/transit accessibility of the area. Furthermore, it’s precisely because it’s new (as well as mediocre and too short) that it isn’t worth preserving; the perfunctory new buildings (saliently the Burger King)...

I’m glad that finally a precedent is being set for greater/taller density here, though yeah, why on earth is nothing ever built along Spadina? I can’t fathom it. Why is there a hideous little Burger King and a tiny pharmacy at the south-east and south-west corners of College & Spadina? Why...

metroTO: Haha, that matches the exterior perfectly.

Thank you!

Is this not going to have retail? I just realized that the listing for it only notes its use as a condominium.

Is there no arborist that can be consulted as to which trees are appropriate for our climate/urban areas? Do they just choose trees to be planted here with no regard as to what circumstances they can survive in? It seems like this mistake gets made over and over again all over the city. I can’t...