To recap some of the architectural speculation twists and turns (that mostly played out of
over on the Cumberland Terrace thread):
1) Some time ago, @blacktowertv tweets that Oxford had something big planned for Yonge and Bloor involving Will Alsop
2) Shortly thereafter, potentially following blacktower's lead, Matthew Slutsky of BuzzBuzzHome puts 100 storey Alsop on the table.
3) On March 12, Ramako posts to the Cumberland Terrace thread (adjacent site, also an Oxford project) he's heard something "juicy" is afoot that he strongly suspects is for that site
3) On March 13, p5connex chimes in and says that for Cumberland, it will be a "certain UK architect making his Canadian residential debut" who like "multi-coloured stacks"
4) People put two and two together, myself included, and speculate that the plan for Cumberland is Alsop. Who, to be fair, is British and likes colour
5) Ramako says no, for Cumberland, unless something's changed, he's heard "a different, albeit international architect"
6) Just like before, p5connex again pops in a few posts later and says not Allsop, it's Sir "x", British architect known for colour and mechanical style, and what he saw was a 42s tower proposal.
7) Majority of speculation turns to Sir Richard Rogers (or more likely, various underlings at his firm) for Cumberland
8) The 83st application for Holt's breaks
9) Ramako: "If Oxford is indeed the developer here, then I think I know who the architect might be. I had previously suspected that Cumberland Terrace was the site to which my info related, but now I'm thinking that it's the Holt's site, especially given the size of the proposal. If my suspicions are right, UT is going to lose its shit."
Anyway, assuming that most of the input rumours were credible and there haven't been some baseless fanboyism injected into the information flow at some point (not suggesting either of the two posters I named would be those people, but it's possible earlier sources in the chain were), we have at least the below pair of possibilities:
A) Ramako and p5 had both been speaking about Cumberland the whole time. That project is indeed likely a Richard Rogers mecha-colour suitably cool statement. The Allsop rumour therefore needs a big Oxford Yorkville proposal to match with, and that could be 50 Bloor
B) Ramako and p5 have been speaking to different projects the whole time. p5 is right about Cumberland being a Richard Rogers mechacolour design statement. Ramako has been trying to match info that was always about 50 Bloor to a specific site, and so we can deduce it's *not* Will Alsop, but another international architect.
Alternately, the posters in question could just tell us what they knew and for where, but where would be the fun in that?
