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Ah, another series of posts on the Four Season's Centre for the Performing Arts. That most battered of expired equines. ...wait for it... Ah, another series of posts on the Four Season's Centre for the Performing Arts. That most battered of expired equines. Because we haven't heard any...

Oh no! A modern steel-and-glass construction? In this day and age? There goes the neighbourhood...

I still can't believe that this hulking pile of petrified turd was actually designed by someone - that is, someone actually sat down, whipped out a pencil/pen/mouse/whatever, and put some (even if it was half-assed) effort into this thing... and got paid for it. This isn't hack architecture -...

The metanarrative of Hume continues... From wide-eyed modernist proponent, to angst-ridden preservationist, to grumpy backwards-looking nostalgia, to existentialist dreamer; Hume's architectural musings appear to mirror his march through life. The city reflected in the man reflected in the city.

There's a private archaeological/conservation company, Archaeological Services Inc., whch is reputed to have in it's basement bankers boxes from floor to ceiling 2 rowns thick full of artefacts spanning the entire occupied history of Toronto and the surrounding region. These artefacts, I am...

^ Nope... the thing burnt down some time way before those condos were envisioned. Arson, if I recall correctly...

It's fine??? Superbad just keeps getting superworse. Corrugated siding... cheap, non-functional doodads... I could go on, but why? The only things this building ever had going for it was its size and location - it could have been iconic, but instead it has become monsterous.

Bah. The Star of Downtown for the jet-set.

By backside I was referring to the back of the building - which happens to face west in this case. With the parkette/podium to the north, and Church to the east, you certainly can't define those faces as a backside (driveway notwithstanding). The fact that the cinderblocks wrap around to the...

Is that achitecture or archi-pornography? Simply put, what right do we have to look the world over and pick and choose buildings from this or that city... this or that context... and emphatically declare our own experience to be poorer than the rest? One one hand, we unfairly compare ourselves...

Indeed. I never could understand why so many of them were used here in the first place... where they trying to cover every conceivable angle from which one might approach that cut-through, to make sure they couldn't be missed by those with tunnel vision?

Quite franklly, I find nothing wrong with this backside of a building. Nothing at all. Nada. Zilch. I mean, what next? Are we to petition the management to tart the large garbage bin up with some sort of teak or limestone cladding, simply because if someone wants to, they can peak around the...

Indeed, and I positively relish the idea of going at their stats with a weed-whacker. As has been shown, this is not at all out of the normal range of city salaries Indeed, but this has to be considered in light of the overall employment context. The only departments in which significant...

And lest we forget... When Mayor Lastman actually DID try and stand up to the unions, even going so far as to hold firm during a garbage strike in the middle of summer, the province sent the matter to arbitration.... where they essentially imposed on the city the totality of the union's...

Actually, if I recall correctly every municipality has the right to levy sales and income taxes in the states - not just the "prosperous ones" like New York. Furthermore, New York (for one) had these taxes even during the early nineties - it's so-called dark ages. With respect to total tax...

Mini excavaion = archaeological survey. Either that, or someone's taking their Tonka trucks far to seriously.

You all DO realise that a near exact copy of this building was built at Harbord and University, just as this one was being demolished? It even has the same name.

The strange thing is that, over the past year, a consensus appeared to be developing that the province, no matter who was in charge, would likely upload between $150 million and $250 million in services per year. In a bizare coincidence, this amount is exactly the difference between the revneues...

The planned deferal of the 2 taxes, totalling $350 million in projected revenues, to October 22nd almost certainly means that they can't be allocated to the 2008 budget (the first few months at least) should they be approved at the council meeting on that date. The newspapers have consistently...

Interchange42 - I'll bring the pitchforks! Jayomatic - bricks do not equal historicist babble - using them to construct a building that pretends to derive from an age long past, however, does. Mozo and others merely prove my point - you can make buildings (even brick buildings) look good...