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Can anyone access that rooftop basketball court? Is it open to the public?

"Cheap and ugly" vs "expensive and aesthetically pleasing" is a false choice. Good design and aesthetically pleasing material sets can be done on the cheap. It is simply a matter of laziness, lack of creativity and simple incompetency that the "cheap" buildings in this area (this condo, in...

Looks as "Markam office parky" as we feared. Yes, totally depressing.

This is certainly a large concentration of institutional uses. In order for the street to be perhaps be a little more (successfully) integrated into the surrounding neighbourhood, a better variety of uses would certainly help. Further, it is difficult to tell whether the buildings provide a...

I am not sure this building deserves to be more noticed than it is already. If it was lowered 30 stories, that is the type of notice I would want for this design and execution.

Simple, clean and a lot of attention to detail. Looks great so far.

There are two great independent small "fruit and veggie" stores on that block and it will be a great loss when they disappear (I am at Yonge and Eg. and walk down to those shops).

This is a great looking building that actually looks like it was proposed for Bloor St. With a relatively expensive design and curtain wall, I am (pleasantly) surprised for this location. I too pray that it does not get value engineered down and we end up with another cheap investor/student...

This is really awful, isn't it. It could not be cheaper looking, less creative or less aesthetically pleasing. In fact, one would be hard pressed to create something uglier. Just my opinion. Rant over.

Many of these stations (and this one more so) are indistinguishable from the disposable architecture of a Loblaws Superstore. They certainly do not speak of the value we should be giving to public buildings and public transportation (imagine Union Station being built today, with the value...

This is capital B "Bland Institutional." I would think that a major street downtown deserves a little bit more than this.

This is no more the High Line Park (something that passes through numerous neighbourhoods and different building purposes, including a variety of residential, offices and museums) than the Bay Adelaide Centre is Rockefeller Center.

Excuse my "unhelpful hyperbole" but this is not a park. It's a large scale condo development with some green space (and if you took out all the concrete paving and staircases, not much green space). And a park does not need condos or apartment buildings planted into it to be successful. There...

This building is a winner in almost every respect. Beautiful details.

And I thought I would never say this, but "thank goodness they are using precast" (as opposed to aluminum) panels.

The white stucco/EIFS cladding on the floors 3 and up with be difficult to clean and probably look awful (as most light coloured stucco does ) after a few years.

What a bait and switch this has turned into. And with this particular architecture firm, is it rational to only assume the worst in terms of execution?

I get excited when things start being built, not approved (see Mirvish Gehry).

I can unfortunately see this being value-engineered such that the podium will look nothing like the rendering (6 story curved glass? not. going. to. happen.). But I love the colour palette and the apparent choice of materials. The towers designs (great textures, great articulation) look...

Boy, those concrete barriers are ugly. You would think that a company spending tens of millions fixing up the roof level of a building, would care about the ground level a little....you know, where people actually interact with and see your building.