Okay, since the Who is coming to Toronto on Dec 4, maybe they should keep whatever last bit of the stump up just so Daltrey + Townshend can give it one last whiz. Kind of a cornerstone dedication in reverse, I guess...
I was down there today and wondering, how does that park relate to Scotiaplaza? It would look phenomenal if the park and the tower actually lined up nicely.
The courtyard 'park' looks really nice- perhaps a bit like the TD centre except with trees.
That's pretty brutal facadism- I wish they had made a more thoughtful attempt at incorporating it. It's almost as if they designed the building then slapped on the facade after because they had to.
The incorporation of the old facade here really is bargain-basement looking. There's no aesthetic reason for it to be there at all - it looks like a masonry decal.
I think it would have been better if they had simply moved the facade, and reconstructed it elsewhere in the city as the principal facades on a low-rise, sympathetic new structure.
At least if the other modern facade would have been retained, there would have been some sort of a cohesive streetwall created, not this awkward half-assed excuse to save this building. Crappy facadism and blah architecture.