RBC Centre (LEED Gold, CadFair, 41s, KPF/B+H/&Co.) COMPLETE

[MisterF]

Good lord, are we also banned from using the terms 'east end' or 'west end' for fear of inadvertently referencing London?

You're right. From now on the theatre district will be Broadway, the ferry terminal will be the Yonge Street Seaport, and the ACC will be Air Canada Square Garden.

Okay seriously, "east end" and "west end" are used everywhere. They're generic. "Upper west side" and the like are specific areas in a specific city. And that city ain't Toronto. How about we come up with our own names?

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

I think the point is that Toronto already HAS names for its neighborhoods. And if we're going to coin new ones, let's not pilfer other cities for names like some two-bit condo developer.

 

[Redroom Studios]

"but seriously"... but seriously, lower west side is just descriptive of a geographical section of the city! how about the variant "southwest quadrant of the downtown core"???

"I think the point" is that somebody needs to pick up a camera and take some updated construction pics, so that we dont all get bored and have absurd off topic discussions.

 

[Hydrogen]

Also, the "lower west side" is actually, what, Mimico? Long Branch?

Just imagine what the "upper west side" would be.

 

[MisterF]

"but seriously"... but seriously, lower west side is just descriptive of a geographical section of the city! how about the variant "southwest quadrant of the downtown core"???

"I think the point" is that somebody needs to pick up a camera and take some updated construction pics, so that we dont all get bored and have absurd off topic discussions.

Yeah it's just a geographical desription...and the Big Apple is just a piece of fruit!

 

[Tony]

He said "the density on that lower west side", not "the density in the lower west side". He was referring to a geographical location, not naming a neighbourhood.

 

[ProjectEnd]

And I still call Brookfield BCE.

I'll take one order of BCE Place with a side of Rogers Center to go.

 

[adma]

Maybe we oughta take a cue from Quebec City and call the stuff north of Davenport "Upper Town", and the stuff south of Davenport "Lower Town"

 

[Tewder]

Okay seriously, "east end" and "west end" are used everywhere. They're generic.

...'west end' is generic????

 

[interchange42]

Nope Tewder, you're right, that picture proves it: "West End" is city specific to Vancouver. (Where did those Coast Mountains go anyway?)

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[caltrane74]

Rendering of the podium of RBC. How close are we to this?

 

[Tewder]

Nope Tewder, you're right, that picture proves it: "West End" is city specific to Vancouver. (Where did those Coast Mountains go anyway?)

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LOL, my bad! ...I thought it was specific to Hamilton (or is that east end? in Hamilton I never can tell).

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Jesus, people, "West End" is totally derivative of Sault Ste. Marie, which coined the term in the early 1900's. The city's magnificent cultural exports saw to it that the phrase was picked up around the world, in cities that could only wish to have their occidental ends bracketed with a steel plant half as magnificent as ours.

 

[Urban Shocker]

My all time favourite is still SoDoM - south of Don Mills.

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

I hear that's near the campus of the University of Southern Ontario at Brantford. Ah, for those crisp autumn days at USOB.