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I absolutely love this project. I can't wait until they start building the big boy next door. The whole thing is going to have a very Blade Runnerish effect--especially once they start creating more human than human AI robots inside, which is what I understand they will be trying to accomplish...

I think I'm the only one here who actually likes this addition. *ducks*

^Definitely looks better from that angle!

I'm not sure what the optimal height for a skyscraper is before its energy efficiency begins to decline, but common sense would suggest it's not anywhere near what our taller builds are topping out at. Ideally, all the main arterial roads should be lined with mid-rises--that would at least...

I have absolute confidence that the new developing team has Toronto's best interests at heart, and will do everything in their power to bring forth the wonderful, iconic tower everyone wants to see. I just hope the windows are strong enough to resist the impact of all the flying pigs that will...

Well, it sounds like the design is still very much a work in progress. Anyone know if KPF will remain as the lead architects? I can't imagine them putting their name on something as wonky as this latest iteration.

Makes me wonder if some of our local developers might have financial interests in various spandrel making firms.

The absence of signal priority on this line is absolutely infuriating. Having a train with as many as 300 people on it stop for a red light, then again for the station a few seconds later is straight of bizarro land. Metrolinx is spending around 10B on this line and it's going to be severely...

This train wreck of a proposal has a real April Fool's absurdity to it. Kind of like the joke design (design teams always have a joke design somewhere in their midst, right...?) got revealed by mistake.

It feels like it's going to be buffering at 99% for at least a couple more years....

Thanks goodness this has been 86'd--the city really dodged a bullet here.. Frankly, I can't imagine a less appropriate use for this site--might as well have been an 8 story parking garage or a transformer station. Now something truly urban and decent can be integrated with the forthcoming...

Unfortunately, it's that mindset that leads developers and their design teams to stick us with grey, black and white schemes year after year after year. (Cuz, you know, those "colours" never go out of fashion).

Some kind of express line beneath Avenue Road/Bay is really needed to make this work, otherwise Line 1 will get way overburdened.

Wow! Shades of the Amish barn raising scene in Witness.

This is about as "finished" as the Olympic Stadium was for the opening of the 76 games (if anyone here can remember that far back).

I've thought for years that the western island would make a great location for a First Nations history museum--and some kind of memorial/monument as well. It could incorporate some of those pretty glass domes posted upthread but they would be used to house recreations of local old growth...

(from wiki): Maple Leaf Gardens was constructed in five months and two weeks at a cost of C$1.5 million[15][16] ($25.1 million in 2020 dollars). Sometimes I wonder if we've really advanced as a species.

Wow, does this tower ever make its neighbours look even more execrable by comparison. Pinnacle should be hanging its head in eternal shame for its quartet of uglies. On another note: it's astonishing how fast the excavation is proceeding for Tower 2; at this torrid pace it might actually be...

His posts and the rebuttals he elicits are amusing in a clown slipping on a banana peel kind of way. I think he must enjoy the attention and considers all the derision a form of applause. Unfortunately this thread is no longer about the Pickering Airport proposal but, rather, a solo stage...

It's the perfect site for another Zombie inspired/rip-off flick. Too bad George is no longer with us.