Certainly FCP is not in the same class as TD Centre, or even Commerce Court West, however I wonder if there had been an UrbanToronto in the early 1960s whether you would have derided those in favour of constructing TD Centre as being "skyscraper heads". There is a balance of interests at play here in which we can't just look at what we'd be losing but also what we'd be gaining. I don't think it's unfair to call what is likely to be the last major work of arguably the world's best and most impactful living architect the most optimistic tradeoff that anyone could have possibly imagined for this site. It's a situation that is incredibly reminiscent of our intersection with Mies van der Rohe 50 years ago. These warehouses are indeed valuable, and there's not much in the world I would trade for them, architecturally speaking, but what we're being offered here is one of those very few tradeoffs that I would make in a heartbeat. I take your stance to be one based on principal, as there seem to be few out there willing to stand in defence of heritage, but practically speaking, are these particular warehouses so valuable in your mind that they are worth turning down what could potentially be Toronto's next TD Centre?
