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The coverings do seem weird -- they are painted (enamelled?) metal, and I can't imagine that ice would do any damage to them, especially compared to kids regularly sitting on them.

The Beck app is great -- it allows direct ordering and in-app payment, and shows where your cab is and how long it will take to get to you. I'm not clear what advantage Uber has over it (although I am not an Uber user).

Station names can be helpful for wayfinding, especially in a city that promotes tourism. And the Crosstown naming a station "Eglinton" is simply idiotic, and shows how screwed up Metrolinx can be. So I think that station names are a quite reasonable thing to worry about.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but wouldn't widening the sidewalks actually require construction, at least if you want them at the proper grade?

The sense I got from the consultations, and the project overall, is that the city did not want to spend any money on permanent infrastructure during the pilot, but instead wanted to just use paint, planters, and signage to set up the scheme, things that can easily be undone. And I'm not sure...

So the city has limited ability to require certain features if the site does not need rezoning?

What does "as-of-right" mean in this context? And I am not at all surprised that a data centre would not allow any other tenancy in its building due to physical security concerns.

I think it would have been awkward no matter which way they went (unless they made the tower with a parallelogram floor plate that lined up with both Eglinton and Yonge). But visually, as I'm walking along Eglinton toward Yonge (as I do every weekday), I am always struck by the tower being...

One quirk of the building that bugs me is that it is oriented to be parallel to Yonge, while all of its east-west neighbours (including the tower at Yonge-Eglinton Centre) are aligned with Eglinton. Because Yonge is not truly perpendicular to Eglinton at this corner, it means that E Condos is...

Why would a developer acquire a high-profile Gehry building and then toss out Gehry's? design? The value in this project is largely that it is Gehry.

Sure, but it a poor typographic choice in that context.

Yep. I wonder what it is about the building that it needs to be so deep.

Thanks for the info. Another angle:

What would the large dug out area be in the bottom of the photo? I saw them digging this out even after they had poured concrete on the north side of the excavation, and I was surprised to see such significant digging after some forming had already been done.

Yes, but recently there has been the Madison and (before that) the addition to the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, and about 10 other condos under construction in a five-block radius or so. It's nuts.

There's a reason we don't run elevated 4-meter diameter pipelines through the city. If we can bury storm sewer lines, this can go underground as well. There is no reason we should put up with massive aesthetic disruption from a private endeavor. (And the render's implication that the pipe...

I'm shocked that the media value is anywhere near that for Scotiabank. That's a huge sum of money.

Here is some info: Historicist: In Potter’s Field It sounds like all the remains had been moved.

Thursday:

It's a little weird that the original CCA diagram proposed exactly that -- you would think they would have realized from the start that was a silly idea.