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What a breath of fresh air to see more buildings using black brick. Would like to see some green brick too. More of both please! 😍

As said many people to Jane Jacobs as she rallied against things that would diminish this city. Park proponents are pushing (against powerful interest groups) for a project that would be transformative for Toronto. And you don't speak for the City. Park advocates aren't bothering the City...

Wow,, they plan to install actual ceilings? That's a pleasant surprise.

Gorgeous but it does seem WAY too nice for Toronto. It's more in line with design standards in Australian cities.

It's curious as why they decided on traffic lights as the crosswalk on the south side of Allan Gardens works quite well. I suppose Homewood Avenue makes it trickier for pedestrians. This is an improvement over what existed before but what Carlton really needs is the the reduction of car...

The issue with $7.95 is that 80% of the population can't justify spending that much on a pastry. We all like nice things but when a good chunk of the population budget $8 (or less) for an entire meal one has to wonder what kind of city we're building. It's great that these things are available...

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Agree 100%. We shouldn't be encouraging auto-centric development any way. All it does is encourage more driving and the continuation of absurdly wide roads. The Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens does have underground parking but I doubt they'd lose much business if they got rid of the parking...

YUCK.

I'd like to focus on the building but I can't get past the crude, depressing public realm. And it's not just this block, but practically every block in our city. After watching a walking tour of Melbourne (link below), it hammered home how awful our public realm is. Stop using concrete on...

Well yes, you only see top shelf design like this in top tier global cities. It speaks volumes that proposals of this calibre get built elsewhere but in Toronto they're fantasy. I'd love to be proven wrong, of course.

Almost sacrilege on here, but I prefer this to Spire down the street.

2012 Toronto saw the Four Seasons Hotel built in Yorkville. Psychologically, it massively enlarged what we thought of as downtown. We've been filling the stretch between it and the historic CBD ever since to create a more seamless dense swath. Now we're seeing the same thing happening east...

So sad that 95% of that heritage building was destroyed/dumped in a landfill. Saving an exterior wall is NOT preservation.

The proposal and existing building look absolutely ridiculous together.

Visually more interesting than 80% of what we usually get. They even managed to make toothpaste green (which I detest) look good.

What a terrific football venue. Quite fitting considering this is the school where the sport was invented. Will be heading there tomorrow as Varsity hosts the Mustangs.

And why on earth do you or any person get to decide that? Buildigns/infrastructure is either private property or belongs to ALL TORONTONIANS. What they're tagging/painting doesn't belong to them. If we showed up at their house and dipped their personal possessions in paint, they'd go...

Sadly,, for a good half of our new builds the only hope is that they'll get re-clad in something attractive 30-40 years from now. Or maybe the exterior facade will begin failing in 7-8 years and we won't have to wait that long. But yes, it's often hard to find something positive to say.

A lot of people seem to think everything needs to be a point tower. They're hostile to any building with proportions like 88 Bathurst unless it was built 100+ years ago in Europe. Then they gush over it like it's the most marvellous thing ever. I was down in King West yesterday. This...