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Absolutely fantastic brick. This reminds me of some weird Little Portugal/Dundas West 1970s-weird-renovation-with-brick-arches energy, but then kicked up to a 10. It's a great contribution to Riverside. Edit: I got cited for using "inappropriate" language in my enthusiastic description of the...

Agreed - the pebbledash treatment on the sidewalk is great. The entire treatment of the heritage facade is really great too, it feels better than the sum of its parts. Really good work from HPA & the consultant team here. 👍

Fantastic shot of a gorgeous tower.

I think this is CORE's best work. The towers are looking really sharp and actually integrate into the retained facades really well, without feeling contrived. Honestly surprised pleasantly with it and I give it a thumbs up from what I see so far.

It feels like DIALOG hired the P+S/IBI Group multi-res design team in the mid-2000s, froze them in cryo-sleep chambers, and then un-froze them in the 2020's and unleashed their work on the city.

I want to like what they were trying to do but any of the lightness created by those thin strands of material is undone by the literally massive columns holding it up. The horrendous design as a backdrop isn't helping. I'm not sure what the team at Quadrangle was thinking when they penned that one.

Concord, for the final "crowning" phase of their development: "Yeah, make it as generic and uninteresting as possible. Then tack a maple leaf pattern and balcony heaters on it and name it after Canada. That's iconic. Oh, by the way - don't forget to make the podium super generic too - offer...

Value Village is moving into one of the retail units.

I think the facade motif in white is really well handled but the way it wraps over the top of the tower is awkward and the two facade patterns don't really resolve into each other very nicely. Overall pretty solid though.

Good God this looks terrible. The cladding in particular is just unforgiveable. It's not even completed and it looks like it's falling apart. Imagine how it will look 10 years from now. (And then 20, 30...)

“defines Canadian living at its finest” 🙄

Wonderful placemaking here. Pontarini and CCxA pull it off once again! 👌I'm going to have to go check out the park here. It's so nice to see a block "carved" into something greater than the sum of its parts - narrower, lithe podiums that allow the centre of the block to become a communal...

The thread title should read ALLIED, not Westbank.

“Real” laid on site masonry is always a refreshing sight. 😀

I’m years late to this but dare I say this is actually a big step up from the usual work from this office. I actually think there’s some cool ideas in this. Shame it’s changed to the latest scheme which isn’t very interesting.

There is no incentive for Menkes to care about maintenance in the long term. They categorically don’t care and put that in the “let the purchasers deal with those issues” column. (This goes for almost all condo development.)

Wendy’s > Quadrangle though

If you think DREAM had any intentions to build that earlier iteration — especially during the current circumstances of the market and the cost of borrowing — you are smoking something strong that I would really like to get in on.

Is it? Or is it a 1980s-90s Toronto vibe?

Love how the heritage planners decided it was important to "restore" 2.5 storeys of the old facades but the ground floor elevation was a free-for-all.