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All that space and not a tree in sight. It's sad really.

Homes that are end-user friendly and make people happy still sell well. Cramped boxes with window-less bedrooms are being completely rejected by a market where the "retail investor" has largely disappeared.

It's really cool seeing these new rural tourism hotspots developing in Ontario like Elora, Blue Mountain, and PEC. Kingston has always had tourism pull, but it has made some impressive investments into its historic downtown recently, and the towns around it like Gananoque are seeing more tourism...

Councillor Mike Cole recently brought a motion to use section 45 funds to restore it, which was carried. The delays in this project have been unreasonable, but at least it's still on City Hall's radar and budgeted for.

The reason why Giraffe was never built, though, was that the OMB, a provincial tribunal, didn't allow it. With that said, the outcome of the litigation could have been very different today since provincial policies have shifted towards density around transit hubs. Frankly, while the low-rise...

Greige stucco on a Victorian? What were they thinking?

I love that copper changes its colour that way. I love the sheen when it's new, as well as the green patina when it's old (especially when the original architect matched the copper trim well with the facade materials and considered how the building would look when the copper turned green). I...

The brick seems darker than in the renderings. That's not a bad thing, but the facade feels like it needs some more accents or more contrast. Overall, though, it's a good addition to the neighbourhood.

Having transit in the middle of the highway plays a big part in terms of the lackluster feel of the area. It's not just zoning and development. Pedestrians aren't drawn to areas like most of what surrounds the Allen. There are many parts of Bloor with few towers due to zoning like the Annex...

Habitat 67 is amazing because it was built 60 years ago and is a bit more organic in its forms. It was avant garde at the time. Plus, it teases the potential of modular housing units put together to make a single building. On the other hand, there's no weaving of new and old at Habitat 67, and...

Ridley does a lot of the heritage building windows in Toronto. They've done their share of arched windows, so I wouldn't imagine it would be a problem to have a rectangular window with a bowed top.

I hate freeway-based rapid transit lines. Freeways are usually the least pedestrian friendly areas with a surrounding built form that’s almost never transit friendly. Ridership will never be that high, and the lines won’t urbanize the surrounding areas. Witness the ridership, density, and...

It's a really stupid outcome of being car obsessed as a society. People lose their safety and ability to access local shops. Local businesses lose money. It's all done to avoid inconveniencing people sitting in comfy seats, listening to the radio, and having a machine do most of the work...

The limited number of trains that serve downtown Hamilton is awful. That's where a lot of the jobs, people, stores, attractions, and transit connections are located and will be located in the future as downtown revitalizes and densifies. Downtown is also more accessible than West Harbour to...

Stopping the rail service altogether when people really need it complicates people's lives immensely. The government seems to get it with road construction. You don't just shut down a random expressway or 400-series highway every weekend for maintenance or expansion. You let people use it even...

Weekend rail closures are terrible. More people use transit than ever for everything but commuting--shopping, going out, and seeing family and friends. Subway and regional trains should continue to run during maintenance work, unless they're replacing the tracks. And even then, I bet it's still...

No one ever looks at a vast expanse of pavement like that with a smile on their face. It may look decent when new (particularly when wet), but it will leave people longing for some greenery once the clean look fades.

It's sad to see those beautiful green fields in the drone photos about to become cheap disposable sprawl, especially the ones that are still used for farming. Summertime photos of the new roads through the area are beautiful, but the wide roads and bridges are basically the nails in the coffin...

They need to find a donor for new cladding before the AI stock bubble bursts.

The condo corporation is going to have a fun time replacing this cladding after a few decades when it's in need of replacement. One hopes they'll be given blueprints or schematics for how to manufacture it again when the times comes.