Hamiltonian
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Wowowowow!! Silva cells should be mandatory for all city trees. Also, get rid of those ugly garbage bins...
Toronto Sherbourne Common, Canada's Sugar Beach, and the Water's Edge Promenade | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto | Teeple Architects
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salsa
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From today:
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This is what Queens Quay will look like in only a few years!
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AlvinofDiaspar
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This is what we should be doing for University Avenue. It's a disgrace in its' current state.
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Let's hope!
Tuscani01
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I feel like the trees used along the waterfront near Sugar Beach were much larger than the trees used on Queens Quay and the new portion of the waterfront promenade past George Brown. They always seemed much bigger than your typical newly planted tree in the city, whereas these new trees seem similar in size to the rest that are used elsewhere.
Tuscani01
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For reference, these were the trees back in 2010, before the opening of Corus Quay:
Photo By Jasonzed
Amazing how well those have grown in the last 5 years though.
Compared to:
From AoD's pic above
Photo By Jasonzed
Amazing how well those have grown in the last 5 years though.
Compared to:
From AoD's pic above
AlvinofDiaspar
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Tuscani:
If the promenade won't be open for a year, it would give the trees a bit of time to grow to that point. Save them a bit of money too probably.
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If the promenade won't be open for a year, it would give the trees a bit of time to grow to that point. Save them a bit of money too probably.
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Adjei
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Looks good
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The guys working on the site told me a few weeks ago that the extension of the promenade east from Sherbourne Common will open "in August". Not sure how well informed they are but WT certainly opened the promenade south of Corus & GBC while the buildings were going up. I guess we will see..... Not sure that having it open or closed will make much difference to the trees or to us but ...
rdaner
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Great news that the waterfront promenade may be open in August. Hopefully it makes walking from Distillery and the West Don Lands to Sugar Beach a little more pleasant. It'll also be great getting closer access to the Parliament Slip. This summer has been great for public realm project openings!
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Even if the easterly extension opens (and I am not convinced it will) it will be a dead-end until they finish Bayside (Aqualina etc.). Nice though it will be it will not be short-cut to the West Don Lands and does not yet reach Parliament Slip (which is currently just about fenced-off.)
condovo
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Fantastic trees. Horrific, inexcusable garbage cans.
AlvinofDiaspar
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It's ridiculous - spending all this money and then having these stupid looking garbage bins.
I've sent WT an inquiry on the issue - may hear back from them.
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chriskayTO
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The garbage can issue is especially galling. Over at Sherbourne Common they had beautiful stainless steel cans, and the City's contractor wouldn't touch them, so they were literally removed and replaced with those ugly monstrosity.
Not sure which is worse - the waste at buying the nice cans that had to be tossed, or the fact that the City's bureaucracy can't wrap its head around emptying something that isn't standard.
Not sure which is worse - the waste at buying the nice cans that had to be tossed, or the fact that the City's bureaucracy can't wrap its head around emptying something that isn't standard.
AlvinofDiaspar
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I think we need a waterfront wide BIA that is willing to pay a bit extra on top of the city rate to get non-standard bins emptied.
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