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I know the eye has been on Old City Hall for this, but p'haps The Museum Of Toronto could be fit in neatly. Or a branch of the National Gallery or Vancouver Art Gallery for example. Richard White's mention of a big IMAX theatre has some appeal - though that would entail some heavy alterations...

The core and steelwork from inside the Union Station trainshed.

Apologies if this is not worth bumping the thread for, but it looks like the Princess Margaret Hospital is including a unit as one of their prizes.

KCH and its skating rink last night, looking frosty - cold enough to drive even ice-skaters indoors.

I suppose everyone has their favourite tower version, but mine is still the original. The elevators were brightly coloured and the ceiling of the outdoor deck was painted orange, looking great from the ground. The Space Deck (sky pod, now) had mirrors and red lights lining the well of the...

I droppped into Toronto the other day and had the misfortune of seeing this one in person. There are some buildings one seeks out, there are others one seeks to avoid even looking at: this is definitely the latter. The crude, joyless variegated striping on the balconies is bad enough - what's...

The exterior looks great. In outward form, anyway, it's head and shoulders above most of the new condo architecture that Hamilton's been getting. That unit layout, however, is laughable. Ruefully.

I loathe the building, but - fantastic photos! Thanks! Given that the angled edges of the balconies look pretty good from street level, it's too bad they went with exterior balconies at all on this one (esp. transparent ones). The bones of the structure aren't the problem so much as the...

These surfeit of multiple 'magic lantern' and 'l'heur d'or' renderings reminded me of this photoshop extravaganza: https://www.archpaper.com/2018/08/modernist-houses-thomas-kinkade/

I'll be sorely tempted to be there throwing eggs if they do. Now that would be a fun reversal of the fates. (Gay men used to get eggs thrown at them going in and out of the place.) Actually, it would be nifty if someone opened a commemorative and perky gay bar there. It'd do well with...

To me, with the slight embossing on its sloping outer walls, it reminds me a bit of San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid, as though a chunk of it just dropped in.

Here's a pic I took of the building back when The World's Biggest Bookstore was being demolished.

This is a whimper of a picture, but for what it's worth...

I was not a fan. Oddly, I find that the bigger they get, the pattern seems to be working increasingly well. I wonder if they took some clues from the Tour Nuages complex in La Defense, France, or even from the "Shangri-La" towers model in Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'? Anyway, I like the idea, I...

Why not build it out over the water to the south of OP, or on its own new little island? The island option would be more expensive, to say the least, and the EA's would be interminable, but putting it out above the lake on pier-like supports is eminently do-able. It would be a moderate and new...

The existing 'join' between Jackson Square and the former Eaton Centre addition. Never in my life have I ever thought I'd defend that Po-Mo folly, but on the face of it, I fear the existing brickwork is far superior to what the new development will deliver. There's no reason why a facadectomy...

What a great collection of pics. Thanks for pointing these out, and posting.

Being somewhat familiar with the area, I think this plan - though better than the first draft - is still lacking. From the renderings, the buildings look a bit podgy in advance. The four towers are indistinguishable from one another, which will make the views of the thing look lumpen from any...

The oddest thing about this pic is that from this angle, the basic form of the building looks really interesting. It looks vivacious and pert - someone, somewhere along the way really tried. But - ye gawds - everything applied onto this frame seems both horribly discordant and unrelievedly...