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Great to see the city is still allowing "building in the park" site plans /s. This is terrible.

I like the overall massing, the brick, the fact that the balconies are well integrated, the lower iron content vision glass used. The spandrel is bad, but not terrible. Overall, this is a decent addition to the area, IMO, and not at all offensive to me. I was expecting a lot worse, considering...

Actually, I think this is turning out surprisingly well

Architecture aside, Is it just me, or are the slabs in this building thinner than normal? 🤔 Also, this transfer slab placement and the columns it transfers the weight to look so wrong. How is the upper transfer slab resting on what appear to be typical columns/walls? Why do the more substantial...

Oh, more buildings with soulless wraparound balconies on every floor. I wonder who the aArchitect is. It's funny how different HP and aA have become. I remember when aA used to actually deliver some nice designs, like Four Seasons, Burano, and others. Now, they're just doing the Casa formula ad...

I feel like they could've done more with that theme than just a bunch of cat sculptures/silhouettes. Cool idea though!

This is a joke, right? Besides the poor infrastructure, drivers here are horrible at dealing with cyclists. My friends and I are always forced to take up a whole lane when we do group rides, because drivers will try to pass in the most dangerous ways if you don't do that. I've never been on a...

They could find a developer willing to allow it on their land in lieu of height restriction/density easement. Heck, maybe even have the developer subsidize it by allowing a condo/hotel/whatever to be constructed alongside it. But, I digress; this is Mississauga, afterall...

Why does aA have to design most buildings with wraparound balconies? I understand the desire for investors to have balconies in their units, but can aA be a little less lazy? Design balconies around the floorplan rather than just blankly surrounding the building with them!

I made a typo there. It was supposed to say that I'd be in favour of the city banning wraparound balconies above Xth floor. I'd say that most people above a certain floor would benefit from the views, window washing, lack of cigarette butts/bird poop/snow accumulation/etc. Not to mention you can...

This is stunning. I appreciate the high quality curtainwall cladding and lack of wraparound balconies. Nothing screams lazy more than a building with window wall and wraparound balconies, so you can pitch every unit as having a "balcony" to investors. We need more rentals if it means an end to...

There is no way this will look anything like the rendering. There are no balconies, and we can't have that in Toronto. We have to put balconies on EVERYTHING, even if it's 300 floors up, it needs balconies on all 4 sides. If we can find a way to put balconies on the floors and ceilings of units...

Not to mention how her move not to increase property tax for years and keep Mississauga's budget dependent on new development rather than using those funds for infrastructure improvements was asinine. She deprived the city of a very substantial amount of money that could've actually improved...

This doesn't change the fact that much of the transit development is West of Hurontario. It absolutely makes sense to have that loop there. Not all trains travelling on Hurontario needed to go through it, so the argument that it would've increased everyone's travel time is invalid. Also...

They could've easily added trains that bypass the loop, or made the loop trains a different "line" where you'd have to get off and take another train on the same platform. Even a single dedicated train going around the loop continuously while all other trains run straight through would've solved...

It upsets me so much that the planned Square One area loop was removed in the final design. That would've made this project a lot more useful.

I typically dislike wraparound balconies, but HP impresses me yet again. One word I'd use to describe this building: sleek.

Slightly off topic, but this photo beautifully illustrates the differences between window wall and curtainwall, especially in the way they attach to the slab. Curtainwall, on the right, sits entirely off of the slab, as illustrated by that top panel. Window wall, on the other hand, rest on the...

That glass looks incredible. I still can't believe they got 11m tall panels rather than just getting multiple smaller panels.

If you stop fully, it's not really an issue. Sure, shifting down to first is annoying, but that's about it. If you don't stop fully, it's actually more annoying, because you either shift down to first and have that shock, or shift to second and ride the clutch a bit. Because of that, the few...