adma
Superstar
Sometimes I get the feeling that Toronto isn't getting any better architecturally, it's just trying on new styles in a haphazard, uncoordinated manner like a six year old girl rummaging through her mother's closet. Yes, some good stuff is being built and some buildings actually seem to form part of a coherent, contextually-relevant style (the so-called 'Toronto style') that might give some stamp of identity to the city in a few decades time. On the other hand, we just replace crap with crap or build ad hoc additions that are completely at odds with their surroundings.
Just as I'd warn against projecting too much value onto what presently exists on-site, I'd also warn against projecting too much "typical of Toronto" pathology upon what's being proposed. Because this isn't typical of Toronto; or at least, this particular zone of Toronto. Maybe it'd be typical of Hamilton or London; but as things now stand, it's beneath Toronto--which explains the knocks the project is getting in this thread.
With luck, it's only a schematic depiction, due for refinement and heavy neck-breathing from Adam Vaughan's office...