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tudararms
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I like everything about this project except the buildings which represent quite nicely what a lot of us here bemoan about typical Toronto architecture: that podium that appears to offer little to the streetscape, those ubiquitous white pillars, the boxy profile, the plain glass-wall facades, and the less than awe-inspiring building height. Part of me wants to cheer the loss of the stump and the symbolic kickstarting of office building in the city, but part of me also wishes that such a symbolic project would have offered something a little grander and sexier, potentially establishing a new standard and precedent for what will hopefully turn out to be a new round of office construction in the city. I don't want to be a downer about this, and I will watch with interest as the project materializes, but I can't help but walk away from this feeling a little underwhelmed.