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I think its an issue of nobody wanting to take the first risk of implementing ground floor animation. But imagine just for a second though, a restaurant fronting the street but with a patio facing onto the Stanley Barracks lit up at night. That could be a real special place. But who is going to...

Bike lanes already exist on Dixie, or will be installed with the QEW interchange project, between DIxie GO/Dundas and Long Branch GO/Lake Shore Blvd W which are a 10 min ride away from the site. It's a 30 min walk however to these locations from Dixie outlet mall. So it's actually decently...

There's an existing tunnel under the tracks between the station and Terminal Ave according to this Doc for a proposed 9 storey office building. Its not publicly open though I dont think. http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image Referencing_Site Plan Application_Image Reference_Assessment of...

The settlement agreement is here: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-162903.pdf f It's linked in the article too. Affordable housing is 20% land (read land value/cash equivalent) OR 10% Units at affordable rent for 20 years operated by the developer OR 5% units...

That sidewalk needs widening for people waiting for the streetcar and accessing the subway station. A POPS sure. It's just going to be concrete + pavers + benches + couple trees for functional practicality. But as a parkland dedication, I don't buy it. Seems the City got steamrolled at LPAT...

Wrong park in the wrong place imo. CC is an amazing firm and produce incredible work so kudos to them here but... It's not going to be a good experience when you're choking on limestone particulate. You've got 3 very dusty cement/aggregate plants surrounding this park. In the summer that...

Kingston Rd has to be one of the most successful examples of Avenues Policies increasing density/making our city more walkable and urban. Also helps that lower property values along Kingston make mid-rise more profitable to build vs downtown Avenues. The architectural hasn't always been on...

Source? Is there a link to watch the proceedings?

This is fantastic! Yes! the site is actually way too big for just 3 tower so the heritage buildings fill it out! Got Dougs email? I think he could use a look at this....

It's an egregious assault on the heritage of this city, province and country. The Ford Gov't is in full contempt of its own planning policy and Growth plans. Heritage and growth are not mutually exclusive. If Council/Planning can get this stopped in time, I suspect that they will finish...

I simultaneously hate it, but it's also growing on me.... what has Toronto architecture done to me...

if you click on the various application numbers above the description, you'll get the docs relevant to those applications. Its a bit of a mess but once you learn it, it works well enough.

It's got potential to still be interesting and great, but I worry we are heading for a "barcode spandrel" feel. Please let that not be the case when better renders come out. This needs to be better than that to commend the high $psf GG wants and without the ground plane defined this could go...

Check out their website. they have a ton of photos of the theatre past and (presumably?) present. This could be great. Source: https://boagroup.ca/

FYI Public consultation tonight on the Geary Ave Planning Study Link to join: https://toronto.webex.com/ec3300/eventcenter/enroll/join.do?siteurl=toronto&confId=177191842723438741

Some solid work by Daniels here. It's easy to say grey is universally bad, but I think the strong and prominent whites and use of frosted balconies provides a lot of visual relief to the site. The public realm on Dundas could be a real treat when it come together If architects want to design...

Hey this might be off topic (mods, please remove if so) but I remember seeing some graphics on this forum (or maybe somewhere else) where it was a bunch of the different transit vehicles of the TTC in a repeating diagonal image. Does anyone know what I'm referring to? and better yet, do you...

Great photos @drum118! It still infuriates me that we are trying our hands from the start by are only doing 3 platforms serving 3 tracks here when a 4 platform via two islands was possible and would have served all 4 tracks. They're putting in the 4th platform at Weston now! Bloor is about to...

More of this everywhere please. Midrise, Curved "Brick/Stone", Well coloured "Brick/Stone", and solid window-wall. (I know its precast but the texturing is convincing and well done)

Love it! In person, the effect of the brick window outlines is a bit muted, but that might have been lighting conditions. Hopefully they stand our a bit more with better lighting/weathering of the facade. It's a great build overall.