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    Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

    Yeah, I don't believe that either. The member's lounge was originally planned to go in behind the new restaurant. I think they just wanted a bigger dining area and just bumped the member's lounge to the only space left that wasn't already programmed as gallery space. I don't think the AGO really...
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    Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

    There seems to be a lot of complaints about the tacked on nature of this building. That is not going to change because that is Gehry's aesthetic--he likes assemblages that are light and barely held together. The Guggenheim at Bilbao is like that with it's discrete forms playing off each other...
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    Toronto Residences at the RCMI Condos | 134.72m | 42s | Tribute | Zeidler

    Nice sliver. I wonder how a building with no parking will sell. Great if it works.
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    Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

    Bravo features Transformation AGO November 7, 2008 Don’t miss Bravo’s Arts & Minds special this weekend, which highlights the Transformation AGO expansion project. You can catch it on Saturday, November 8 at 6 pm, and again on Sunday, November 9, at 7 pm. Repeats of the show will be aired...
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    Toronto Nicholas Residences | ?m | 35s | Urban Capital | Core Architects

    S+P are doing a residential building for the eastern waterfront...so wait a bit.
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    Toronto QRC West (Queen Richmond Centre West) | 71.93m | 17s | Allied | Sweeny &Co

    Looks great, but that rendering is definately hiding some columns...or some sky hooks!
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    Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

    The glass on those windows is fritted--a pattern of ceramic dots baked onto the surface--to reduce the amount of light on the art. They give the windows a milky appearance from outside and inside. Unfortunately it tends to cloud the view from the inside. The view from the stairs however, will be...
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    Mississauga Chicago Condos | ?m | 36s | Daniels | Kirkor

    I don't have a problem with historicist architecture as long as it's done well. Kirkor doesn't seem to much thought into anything they design. It's seems to be just some decoration added at the end to fit with the marketing plan.
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    Mississauga Chicago Condos | ?m | 36s | Daniels | Kirkor

    It's true, they are terrible. I'm still traumatized by their original version of the trump tower.
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    Toronto 2 St Thomas | 80.46m | 26s | KingSett Capital | Hariri Pontarini

    The University has no intrest in preserving anything. They've only done it when forced to.
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    Toronto Luna at Concord CityPlace | 125.88m | 38s | Concord Adex | Core Architects

    The City is planning for a streetcar line along that route at some point in the future.
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    Toronto King + Condos | 53.03m | 17s | King Plus | TACT Architecture

    Well the Design Review Panel doesn't comment on marketing...if they did they'd have their work cut out for them *ahem* star of downtown et all.
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    Toronto Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza

    That's a pretty useless library though, there is almost no wall space and all that glass will bake your books. Not a very well laid out penthouse. Most people with that much money would have it redesigned anyway.
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    Toronto Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Toronto | 203.9m | 52s | Lifetime | a—A

    No, no. As in Agatha Christie, the butler is married to the cook/parlour maid who live together in the staff quarters, in this case the east tower.
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    1 Bloor East, DEAD AND BURIED (Bazis, -2s, Varacalli)

    All those Trump Toronto rumours had to go somewhere.
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    Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

    yes, and they replaced the fireplaces with cheap electric ones from Canadian Tire!
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    Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

    It's stainless steel. The blue colour is a film.
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    Toronto Telus House - 25 York Street | 136.24m | 30s | Menkes | Sweeny &Co

    looks like they put in a panel upside down
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    Hyatt on King West (Holiday Inn remake) COMPLETE

    Oh right, the former Quality Inn

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