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I don't see it that way. It's a huge parcel of land adjacent to downtown - a pretty massive opportunity for the city to reinvent and reinvigorate its central east side. It's a zone ripe for redevelopment and it's close to the Portlands, the re-naturalized mouth of the Don, planned transit...

I can't say I'm surprised, but I am however embarrassed for this city. I wish we'd aim higher.

Insulbrick... not even brick at all! But yeah, quite popular as a cheap cladding back in the day. I still see examples of it around Leslieville.

Funny how a not even half-finished building can elicit such strong reactions - everything from giddy excitement to sour declarations of it being a potent symbol for everything allegedly horrible and dystopian about Canada. The drama of it all!

Nope - it's Mizrahi's loss. Need I remind you that Apple is a zillion dollar company? They have plenty of options. Their retail fortunes are hardly reliant on a single potential location in a single city in the North American market. The way I expect it went, Apple was willing to go along with...

Dunno... that's content for another, separate thread, I'd say. I'm just interested in seeing this project top out.

On the contrary - I expect Apple was being enormously patient with the process - that patience simply ran out around the same time as their confidence in Mizrahi and co. began to unravel. I sure can't blame Fruitco for backing out after years of slipped deadlines and back-channel chatter about...

So far so good; my impression is that most folks in Leslieville and Riverside understand that arterial mid-rise is now a thing and appreciate that this kind of fairly modest intensification brings its own benefits. Only the reprobate ostrich types are going to grumble - but yeah, they're still...

What a disgusting come-down from what was presented. I realize I ought to know better when it comes to the slick promise of renders in general, but this is is particularly suck-tastic.

Yeah.... that is most unfortunate. I live around the corner from this beast of a development and I was excited about it. Not so much now.

One from Sunday's walk:

A trio from this morning.

Penal vibes.

Man... Arkell Road is so cool. Used to take that road east just to back-road it for awhile before getting back onto the hideous 401. Plenty of nice photographic subjects along that road. Strange to think of all the development happening in and around that corner in the last ten years. This is a...

Perhaps it's an architectural desecration, but on the other hand that warm cadmium yellow sure pops. Would love to see more solid hits of colour like that around the core.

Three from late this morning.

Yup. It's not how humans see. It's supposed to be impressive, but I tend to find it dauntingly bizarre - and gimmicky, due to its over-ripe currency.

It's just a way of viewing proposed developments that's currently all the rage. I find it odd and unnatural myself, but photography is not immune to the following of popular trends and conventions.

That looks better but there's still an awful lot going on... mixed signals re surfaces, materials, cladding, colours. Like someone baked a wedding cake while macrodosing a little too casually.

Two walk-by shots, yesterday, as we went for a stroll along the Beaches boardwalk.