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@MetroMan I share your concerns. It strikes me that we do not take this safety problem seriously enough and that our response is too weak. On the current streetcars, the sticker in the back window telling drivers not to pass open doors is wholly inadequate for the job. I think it would be...

@ egotrippin and ProjectEnd Unreservedly +1. I would add Snøw Hatter's Ryerson Student Learning Centre to the Beekman and Torre Agbar examples.

This cellphone capture unfortunately doesn't do the nice glass justice. Similar to Bridgepoint and Clear Spirit in color and reflectiveness.

Gosh, Redroom. I didn't think we need get into ad hominem arguments; they don't really make for vibrant, creative debate. Beyond your fine pictures, thank you for your concern about the cognitive faculties of those who perceive a relationship between Toronto's natural environment and our...

Finally, just what we needed: a fountain pen on the skyline. (SFX: sarcasm)

Zandvoort

Sorry for the poor photo quality.

Indeed, Tewder. It would seem that the ebb and flow of change - including periods of seeming inertia - are part of transformation. Rarely is nothing going on.

Hi Frank, I too like the expression "gentle urbanism." I also think there is something to the notion that there is a method to our particular madness, explicit or not, whether in the mass consciousness or not.

I second hawc and UrbanShocker's feeling that this one is a snore and a wasted opportunity. I often stare at it from Adelaide, think to myself: "WHAT?", and get the sense that my eyes can't capture it. Here's why: Last year, I returned home to Toronto after a decade of working through my...

Mods, is this an appropriate thread for the ongoing "Toronto Style" mo/neomo/pomo/Burj-al-BaySt-box-with-a-huge-smoked-turkey-drumstick-standing-on-its-roof-pretending-we're-in-the-Jazz-Age debate? Please advise. Jumping ahead a few decades from the properties shown above, I enjoyed this little...

It's a TD. A sign is up on the scaffolding.

Curiously enough, I seem to have found a way to enjoy this monstrosity: walk up Portland, and whatever you do, don't look up!

A jewel. Building as sculpture. Thank you, more please. To these eyes, Burano has only become appreciable as the spatial relationships and dialogue with its surroundings have become clear. I do not analyse and deconstruct this building, I feel it. As they say, beauty is an emotion...

I walked by yesterday and glanced at it - to my eyes and strained conceptual memory, some 10 (maybe 15) floors high so far

A question for those who understand building materials: how will the gleaming copper cladding weather, color-wise? Will it develop a green patina, or will it maintain the copper color? If the latter, is it treated somehow in order to do this?

Longtime lurker, first-time poster here. Assuming I have actually managed to link to the photos, behold the Sky Onion (apologies for dreadful cellphone picture quality):