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Don’t be like Dubai’s skyline, Toronto. …Cold. Colourless. Characterless. Monotonous.

Cost cutting or not, whether you like LP or not. It turned out wonderfully for a lot of people. A lot of appealing details are (still) there. I remember being intrigued by the visuals of Lookout Slip a year ago & now …a bit underwhelmed, even for an “industrial area”.

Lighter asphalt would have been an improvement for this small space. The final look just doesn’t look very Claude Cormier’ish. Light & fun. Love Park was spot on.

Surprised people are praising it. If I didn’t see the original appealing design, I would think it’s an OK space-but I would have still hated the black surface pathway for a waterfront park. So many other options. Unfortunately, lots of shortcuts taken here.

Did anyone bother to look at original design? A lot of the Claude Cormier (CC +A) charm is missing. The shape & look of the tower is completely different. From full, curved & animated to smaller, flat & severe. A big change. That’s the centrepiece of the whole space. The pathways are now black...

Beyond drab. Looks like a vertical prison. Thank goodness not many will see it.

of note …If Nathan Phillips Square was the 3rd or 4th big public space in town, then maybe one can look past the cost-cutting, drab, boring, overly concrete unimaginative reno; but the fact that this square is the “Premier Space” in this booming big city is just woeful & shockingly short-sighted...

Imagine if Rail Deck Park w/o the NINE condos had shovels in ground or even completed by now. Toronto could have been the envy instead of a dumping ground for critics. Money & funding were the big issues i suppose, but private donations & the philanthropic society for the public realm, in this...

BlogTO is owned by M Znaimer & ZoomerMedia. Parochial, conservative, low taxes over 60 +crowd mouthpiece. BTO is cool until their political agenda comes roaring thru~ car centric, taxes, Doug Ford fans.

You’d think. Yes to RENO.. But at least clean up all those dirt patches in park every single summer-they can start there. I also saw some sort of rendering of a lookout deck at Riverdale Park. Not sure what that was❓

Who’s not demanding change? It’s everywhere now. The pressure is there now, that I’ve noticed, from mayors, councillors, architects etc .. Just willful spite, cheapness & negligence if developers & the powers that be don’t turn that corner & move the needle.

Cynics aplenty on this longtime site. For good reasons …mostly. But people, things, buildings & cities can and do change.

Key words …”Red Aluminum” ~that’s why they are or will be, whenever, “iconic” in midtown. Downtown c’d use a big splash of red aluminum downtown. The gorgeous Scotia Plaza has been desperately lonely for decades.

I like this building on the Square. Brings much needed modern fresh edge & light to area, w frontal landscape arch. to come. One of my favorite buildings in city is right across the road. That good looking limestone (LCBO) w clock tower needs to be more than an outpost for selling beer & retail...

Definitely see brown in these new pics.

I hope so. Brown, beige, amber, gold. Anything but grey.

They’re turning this mofo grey. Aren’t they? Maybe it’s the cloudy grey sky backdrop. Yeah, right. The glass is dark grey!! Yech. It was a semi-good design. More than basic. I liked it more & more. And the one thing I liked above all for this supertall was the much needed soft gold light it...

Haven’t you heard? Toronto is forever banished to the boring, blue-grey, glass tinted skyline abyss. Where beautiful hues like gold, amber & any other colour scheme under the sun is …outlawed.

It’s happening now, in the last 5 yrs, some standout, good looking structures downtown. But took way too long.

Exactly. Why are all the cool, well designed buildings not being built downtown? Same with 1 Delisle in mid-town. Looks so out of place there. Royally backwards.