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Personally I'm fine with "charm", but I'm not sure if the main street in largest city in Canada should be littered with down-at-heel head shops, nail salons, and strip clubs. There are places for those kind of businesses, I just don't think our main thoroughfare is it. I think there's a fair...

It's close to One Bedford goofy.

I agree that saying Toronto doesn't have cool buildings is hyperbole. But much of what passes for innovation in Toronto these days is largely boxes with different balcony treatments. Those can look great (One Bloor, Harbour Plaza), or boring, but this approach seems to be so dominant in...

Those undulations don't look to me like anything done in Toronto. Is the enclosed space a box with massive balconies, or does it follow the shapes of the floor plates, like with Absolute World?

Mississauga gets cool twisty buildings, but Toronto seems stuck with "boxes but with slightly different balconies".

...which is different than wishing it wasn't a Starbucks.

Rooster, Aroma, Neo, Black Canary -- there are several other independent coffee places in the neighbourhood.

There are signs up for Starbucks and Freshii in the windows of the south ground-floor retail section.

I agree completely -- this building only looks good at night from a distance.

Is there any requirement that the restaurant building be preserved? Is it designated?

Nope, there is one on King near River that is just a commercial pharmacy.

The Hub includes the former Canary Restaurant building?

I ate at Angelo's once, and found it distinctly underwhelming, with relatively tasteless pizzas, ridiculously plain iceberg lettuce salads, and poor service.

It's really lovely and thoughtful, and does a great job respecting its context.

The stripes on the mechanical and above the retail section are really welcome additions -- this area has solid architecture but has a rather drab palette.

Yes, there is -- again, look at the legs of the person in the black jacket (look between them, and to the left of them). Yes, there is -- look to the immediate left of the sign. See the sharp vertical dark area (aka "shadow") on the car? No, it shouldn't -- the two men on the left are standing...

C'mon, folks, this is absurd! What possible reason would the TTC have to lie about this? (And there are indeed shadows behind the two front men. For example, look at their legs.)

Right, but if it's more expensive, what makes it economical here, as opposed to other locations? Why was doing this better than building at a different unoccupied location, or tearing down the existing building here and starting completely fresh?

If this approach is economical here, I don't understand why it isn't used more with other projects in the city. What is unique about this project that makes it appropriate here?

Wow. This project has always struck me as both ambitious and a bit nutty -- is this particular location so desirable, and the existing building so valuable, that further height via this technique is warranted? Has anything like this been done elsewhere in Toronto?