yyzer
Senior Member
Construction hoist coming down at M2.
I was just about to write a similar comment before I saw your post.This shot makes you wonder if MCC is going to gobble the block of SFHs in the foreground.
Burnhamthorpe is really unfortunate. It is too wide and high volume for the far side of the street to be too relevant for you as a pedestrian because you'd have to be a daredevil to jaywalk.I was just about to write a similar comment before I saw your post.
I certainly hope that there will be more dense development in that area. Even the residents of those homes must find it strange that they don't have much privacy in their backyards and the level of traffic around them has increased tremendously. For the M-City units and Burnhamthorpe, I find it equally strange that there is dense development on one side with potential for street interaction and fenced backyards and grass/weeds with zero activity on the other. And a stroad in-between.
There there a long-term plan from the city to make Burnhamthorpe more pedestrian friendly? I can see a large median with trees in the centre making a difference in at least separating the two different urban landscapes on each side. The abrupt transition makes an otherwise good urban project seem out of place and chaotic.Burnhamthorpe is really unfortunate. It is too wide and high volume for the far side of the street to be too relevant for you as a pedestrian because you'd have to be a daredevil to jaywalk.
M-City Developers to your comment:Why create a render like this?
Reality. They've just erased the two Grand Park buildings and stretched their own towers onto that site:
Everyone remembers that Toronto the urban utopia has university avenue? These things happen.There there a long-term plan from the city to make Burnhamthorpe more pedestrian friendly? I can see a large median with trees in the centre making a difference in at least separating the two different urban landscapes on each side. The abrupt transition makes an otherwise good urban project seem out of place and chaotic.
I know I haven't shot the site lately but I didn't think it changed that much!Why create a render like this?
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Reality. They've just erased the two Grand Park buildings and stretched their own towers onto that site:
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