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SRM architects is wildly overrepresented in KW. They seem to have most of the major downtown high-rise commissions in the bag. Why? I kind of know the answer, but would rather avert my eyes. They're our very own Graziani & Corraza. Or Vranich. Easy, lumpy n' cheap. I'd really like to see...

Someone was paying attention here, especially in the massing, which is nice. I appreciate the deco attempt, but I'm thinking mere glass-and-spandrel facades can't carry it. Missing most of the entire point of deco - integration of the Arts décoratifs - it comes out looking like the teenage son...

A bit of a low-effort shot. Apologies.

Yet more.

Urban Toronto-ists, the impossible has happened. The lower concourse ceiling has actually been painted. !!!!!!! p.s. Oh. Well. I see I'm not the first to notice. Oh well. Still, as far as "things that should have been done years ago" go, this one is practically momentous.

My Gawd, that layout is a horror.

Hmpf. Well, that's interesting. Looks like they're trying for a little somethin'.

Some cladding has arrived.

The Swish Allée, I think would be pretty funny. Or Barbara Please. Or even Oh Her. But those might sound a little frivolous. From railway terms: Watchdog, Axlebox, Bogie, Doodlebug,The Grab Iron, The Spike, Hotbox, Interchange, Caboose, Junction, The Meet, Notch 8, The Zig Zag, The Whistle Stop...

Personally, if I won the lottery, I'd open a gay bar. As far as I know it's never been attempted in a major transportation terminal.

Looking south at it from the Station Park construction site.

Dropped by the site today. Quite a dig! A new raised addition to the front of the existing two towers, that angles back across the back of the property, for Towers C & D.

Just in case the overhang doesn't keep the rain off you, the awnings will won't either. Cool.

From near Charles St. W & Victoria St. S:

Those Gore Park facades have to be kept, no matter what. The history they embody and their relation to the park, makes their preservation the absolute top priority for anything going in here. Hamilton devastated its historic downtown during it's big modernization leap in the late 60's. Repeating...