AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
I noticed that on Saturday. From Temperance it looks like they have gone down a couple of levels.
^Reading through some of the construction updates, I saw that the southern heritage building will be disassembled and moved to the north (odd). Will anything take its place?
I hope the Yonge Street portion of this tower, will at least have some decent retail. It will be retail, right?
There is no historical building or facade being relocated, as it means noting if it is not where it was in the first place. It will be a false facade period.
My beef is with the fact they are putting this brick facade on the only remaining built part of the original Bay Adelaide from the late 80's. How is this brick facade more important than what is already there? And if it is more important then they should have left it just where it was.
Perhaps that's because we're in a kind of anti-PoMo reactionary period in Toronto's architectural history. The '80s facade is likely seen as valueless because it's from the PoMo era, which is currently unpopular.
Well, that's not going to help Yonge Street much. Yonge Street needs better retail and some entertainment would be nice.