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+1 to everything Ramako just said. Well put.

Man, I go away for five days, come back, and this whole thing is still going on? Can't we all just agree that Urban Shocker and friends are smarter, more tasteful, and generally superior people to those of us who like this building? The strange thing is that I don't even particularly like...

Not as bad as I feared either, though definitely still a bit undercooked. The close-up renders definitely improve my impression in relation to that overall render that we've seen. I still feel like the 'iconic' glass box is the most underwhelming part of the project. Have they just not worked...

What I'm saying is that U Condos and 88 Scott are both decorated sheds. They are fundamentally the same building type, with the same tectonics, the same circulation strategy, the same program, the same partitioning, an so on. One has 'neomodern' decorations, the other has...

Okay. One more try: Why is this building, of all the buildings underway in this city, worth calling out as the pinnacle of philistinism? It has concept-free doodads galore, I'll admit, but so do any number of other projects. Including many of those by the vaunted aA. The majority of their...

Let me try again: I loathe the self-aggrandizing and pretentious attitude you bring to this forum with every post. Way to dodge a conversation about substance with a bit of snottiness about style. Predictable.

Hahaha. Absolute truth. So for now: Uh-oh. I don't know about this one.

I'm almost loathe to participate in the conversation on this thread at this point, as it means that I am opening myself up to a shouting match with the high-and-mighty duo of Drag Queen and Shoe, but I'm really a bit baffled by the vitriol being thrown at this tower. It is certainly not an...

I'll take Graziani and Corrazza for 200, Alex.

I think some design ideas get worse at a faster rate as they get diluted down - this one looks like Old Navy trying to make an Issey Miyake. Makes one yearn for a Page + Steele box...

Missed that detail in gristle's post. As someone who has designed with precast before, I would have to agree - it can be used elegantly. It just needs the right details.

Have there been any design drawings/construction schedule released for this? I couldn't agree more that this park needs a major rebuilding in it's new context.

Quite nice - I like the massive, solid base with the large-scale arches - a pretty inventive move in relation to the design standards of the day. I like that one shot that shows the broken, semi-arch. I hope they include a few similarly playful modifications of the standard arch elsewhere -...

I think the building would look handsome either way. I was really opposed to the 'box' when the rendering showed just one, but as an element repeated throughout the building, I think it actually works extremely well. I think it creates an optimal bit of distance from the historical precedents...

Yikes. The heavy banding manages to make a very tall, very slender building look somehow chunky. The earlier design, while a bit plainer and more boxy, at least managed to emphasize the verticality of the thing in a way that added some grandeur. I would have to agree with earlier posts that...

Really great interview. Thanks for putting that together for us!

Here is an neighbourhood plan image taken from the City of Toronto site: Much more information can be found here. And more specifically here, in the newly released Secondary Plan.

To be fair, I think that there's only a 99% chance you are right. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt. ;)

There is some good info on the new Toronto FC training facility up on the TFC website here, including renderings. Here are a couple shots: Pretty ho-hum stuff, I must say, but I thought it was worth reporting anyways.

If I recall correctly, I think the plan intentionally does not include picnic facilities as it is a wildlife protection area and they want to minimize the food/food-related garbage on site. There will be two eco-composting washrooms though. There will be picnic facilities incorporated into...