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If we have issues or questions regarding the new site - which is looking generally amazing by the way - is this the place to ask them? Assuming you are going to be saying 'yes', I wanted to ask about posting comments on the 'news' page. It asks for a login, but I'm already logged in to the...

Definitely not pre-revitalization, but post-revitalization, yes I would consider it. It's very close to downtown, will have a bunch of new, high-quality public facilities, and is priced a noticeable bit lower than comparable units elsewhere in the core. Not everyone will want to live here, but...

I'm sure the neighbourhood would welcome your decision to take your intolerance elsewhere.

Not to be grouchy, but I actually think this design is pretty lame. It's a particularly monotonous rendition of a design move that was very popular a decade ago - the continuous folded plane that goes from floor to wall to floor again. I think that the individual elevations have almost no...

There is a bit more info on Hariri Pontarini's website here. And more images. "783 Bathurst Street Development is intended to create a dynamic relationship with its immediate context and community by providing a playful façade and a functional retail strip at the street level. The site...

I quite like it. It's nice to see a tower project where mass and texture take priority over glass, glass, glass. Seconded on the 'North Sea' feel.

"Construction will start in one month. For sure. I know this because I read it in an identical post that I wrote last month."

I'm deeply afraid of this. I've followed this project since the competition and I've always been a fan - but it seems to be just the kind of urbane city-building that our new Crank-in-Chief sees as frilly liberal nonsense. Think about how many parking spaces you could make with that kind of money!

This building shaping up into the outdated, clunky turd the renderings implied it would become. Oh the irony of watching bad Zeidler go up while good Zeidler (Ontario Place) faces the prospect of a wrecking ball.

Where is that model located? I plan on swinging through Regent Park later today, and I'd love to see it in person.

I actually think there are very, very few architects (especially in Toronto) who would look at Ontario Place and not be excited by the prospect of incorporating and reimagining the existing structures into their plans. There is a longstanding professional discomfort with clean-slate urban...

I think that at a bare minimum the Cinesphere and the 'floating pods' should be counted as important parts of Toronto's heritage - they are exemplary not only of an architectural period, but also of a general, optimistic, forward-looking spirit of the times - I think they convey a lot about the...

Like everyone else, I am completely appalled that the powers-that-be would even begin to consider a tabula rasa approach to 'revitalizing' Ontario Place. It is hands-down one of the most important pieces of modern architecture in the city, and maybe the only piece that captures that slightly...

To be more serious, I don't think a universally applied streetscape language is appropriate in a city any more than a uniform architectural style. I think there may be a case to be made for a broadly consistent street language - which is what we will theoretically get in 90% of the city through...

Our disparate street designs will contiue to be unified by a zig-zag of inconsiderate utility cuts poorly stuffed with asphalt and off-angle electrical poles, don't you worry.

No info on the Montgomery Sisam site (at least not that I could find). Has anyone been able to get a hold of any renders outside of those shown in the video?

I've found a video of this project that has some pretty clear renders. I live down the street from this site and have been curious as to what they might build here for a long time. It looks like a respectable addition to the neighbourhood, not particularly exciting, but handsome enough. Check...

thanks. i never, ever would have found that on my own.

Alvin: Where on the waterfront site did you find this document? I was looking around on my own and couldn't find it. There was a ton of stuff in there that I hadn't seen before - district energy centre, updates to the sherbourne park plan, etc. I'm wondering what else i'm missing out on...

The B.A. is only a 4-yr program, so it takes a total of 7 yrs of education to be trained as an architect at u of t. it's quite a long program, but architecture is complicated, high-stakes stuff, so I don't mind taking my time to learn it. Very few places in North America still offer...