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I lived in a space that size for 3 years as a grad student and loved it. (mind you I also had big windows overlooking huge trees in a park, and a balcony)

Dare you to say that out in the open and to his face.

The Kingeast is being construction managed by 5Nine, and they are the ones who have repeatedly insisted that they could maintain absurdly optimistic timelines, both to buyers and apparently to LambDevCorp as well. I'm not sure why they felt compelled to do this - perhaps penalties or risk of...

The Kingeast is being construction managed by 5Nine, and they are the ones who have repeatedly insisted that they could maintain absurdly optimistic timelines, both to buyers and apparently to LambDevCorp as well. I'm not sure why they were compelled to do this - perhaps penalties or risk of...

Pretty sure he means the former Globe site that recently went up for sale. (at least that's the one I'm referring to)

Have to day UD, you nailed it with this comment from 4 years ago.

...and Freed if I'm not mistaken.

Asphalt is being pulled up on the car-wash site. I assume it's to undertake an archaeological excavation but when I asked the labourer guy he said it was for foundations for a tower -"That's what the suits said", he said. My understanding is that the city has successfully assembled all of the...

Honest Ed's will certainly soon be redeveloped, but it's no place for skyscrapers. Signing off, once and for all. Been nice knowing some of you.

From 2007 http://www.thestar.com/article/234584--a-bridge-too-much "Alan Vihant of Concord Adex, at the future intersection of Dan Leckie Way and Fort York Blvd., says he’s not sold on the worth of a bridge over the railway tracks to Portland St."

I wouldn't make recommendations about what I can think or not think, but I know that the first thing you learn in any school of architecture is understanding and appreciation for history and context, and integration thereof. A first year student would be given failing grades for choosing to...

Adam Vaughan doesn't blindly fall for pitches by mobsters - were this proposal not presented as contingent upon the casino I'm sure Vaughan would have no major issue with it. He's a very smart and reasonable guy. If anything he is a bit too willing to bend to the wishes of developers for the...

Now this is a supertall project I can get behind. Horrid brutalist block is the only cost, and a block from the major transportation hub - perfect. Only problem is the casino component, but better here than at the exhibition grounds where it will spread like a cancer and could despoil the whole...

And I doubt that Gehry, if given the option, would choose to decimate the entire block in this manner. A mega-project cannot be sympathetic: it's sheer scale requires ALL of the surface area in order to accommodate the parking requirements of 2600 condos. This isn't sensitive city building this...

You mean Braincandy? Once and if this project is ever approved it will be too late (for those who have oppositions at least).

I'd love to know the story behind this. 2 years ago there was a ready to submit proposal for a (+/-) 8 storey condo on this site .

When will people get the concept that people can't build whatever they want because they own a piece of land?

Yes, that and an endorsement by the Ford's looks bad on anything. Also, I'd hate for Ford to twist this around as though it somehow supports his "subways subways subways" rant. The right people should get the credit for the DRL and Ford it is not. I just want Ford gone.

This project hasn't enhanced the value of the East facing condos in East Lofts that's for sure.

The richest and most meaningful architecture comes from constraints and context - it doesn't fall out of the sky. Treating this site as a clean slate is a lost opportunity but one necessitated by the sheer volume of parking required by the 3 massive condo towers. Every square inch of that...