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Some more shots of the site before it all starts. From King W and Francis looking N-NW The south edge of the property, with it's little fronting parkette... The existing building on site, King St. W The gap between the existing building on site (to be filled by the new tower) and its...

I'm glad that this new proposal is aiming to keep the street lively by putting retail on both main public sides of the base. As mentioned above, I would like to see the city nix this 'above ground parking podium' trend, as we've got a number of new towers with this unhappy feature already built...

The site, how it roughly looks to-day. (Cleaned up from Google Earth). The new tower will sit on the site of the grey and purple low-rise, with that little parkette in front. It should extend back to more or less touch the grey tower behind (north) of it. Looks like their podium size will be in...

From Hall's Lane and Francis, looking roughly north-west. Site of the new tower for Francis and King West is on the right.

The two existing towers, viewed looking up King Street W (northward) from the ION Train's Central Station. Site hoarding along King Street W, looking west across from Google HQ. The existing towers are just to the right of this photograph. Southern and Middle parts of site Train tracks...

A for effort - and architectural apprehension. Nonetheless! It's such a little thing, and such a good impulse is behind it, I think it deserves some warm approval.

Maybe it's a bad attempt to render First Canadian Place in the background or somesuch. (?!?) I might have been hasty in ascribing it to a mechanical penthouse. I hope that's the case.

A big PDF about the proposed redevelopment, from HUPEG (Hamilton Urban Precinct Entertainment Group) The most interesting part of the development are for the demolition of the existing Convention Centre at base and its relocation to Jackson Square. Then, the art gallery is to be demolished and...

Seeing this thing's sides straight-on vs. seeing it directly up from the bottom is quite a surprise in what it reveals about the building. Looking up from the base, it's immediately apparent how lovely the and well-done the geometric folding and outlines of the balconies have been done. That's a...

If these latest renderings are anything to go by, this is one of the most dreadful overwrought and underwhelming pieces of crap this city has seen in recent years. Full of pointless tweaks, subtractions, pullbacks and add-ons that mean nothing, add nothing and go nowhere. The cave-like corner...

145 Adelaide. It's a curious little doodad, but it cheers me up somehow. Partly, I think, because it's so incongruous and wee, surrounded by giants. It manages to hold it's own, though, through a dab of solid ostentation. A UTF member, Jeff Low put a post up about it in 2011. It's from this...

By gum, another mediocrity. Slightly more svelte than the other SRM lumpenturms about, but still no thrill. I really hope that's not another above-ground parking podium. Kitchener's not big enough to absorb too many of these without them being a grave, lasting dullness on the skyline. This...

Behind King Street, with a view across downtown, looking south-east. From left to right: -Diamond and Schmitt - 345 King Street West -WZMH - 119 King Street West -KPMB - Kitchener City Hall -SRM - Young Condos, DTK Condos, 24 Gaukel Street Condos. I think it's safe to say we have more than...

Some large forms for wall-pouring have appeared above grade.

From the PCL website:

I've always felt somewhat jealous of Chicago's central, huge and formal park by the lake. But I daresay Toronto has stepped up to that level, when the waterfront is looked at entire. The series of boardwalks, promenades and moderate parks being formed at the city's edge (anchored by Harbourfront...

It's quite finished. It doesn't look like there's much of anything inside it though, at the moment. Looking east from King St. W Between the original Breihaupt Block and the new phase, looking up: At the block's north end: