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    Toronto Toronto | 147 Liberty Street | 179.62m | 55s | Intentional Capital | Sweeny &Co

    Oh good, I know how worried everyone in Liberty is that there aren't enough wind-generating shadowy towers with too few elevators. The traffic in Liberty is horrendous, so what's another 55-story tower.
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    Toronto Toronto | 120 Bouchette Street | 198.12m | 56s | DevColl | Turner Fleischer

    Textures and use of materials could be really nice here. Every building in this complex is twice the height it should be. For a liveable city, residential buildings should not be more than 25 stories. As designed, this is an example of terrible density. Didn't anyone learn anything from the mess...
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    Toronto Toronto | 59-81 Lawton Boulevard | 130.6m | 39s | Gairloch | a—A

    Grossly out of scale for that street (25 to 30 storeys taller than its neighbours - watch for more developers to eliminate the very cozy buildings on the rest of that street). Loss of small retail with this behemoth. Interesting design, but very corporate and unwelcoming. Better suited for a...
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    Toronto Toronto | 33 Isabella | 25.3m | 4s | Cromwell | IBI Group

    This is one of those situations where it would make sense as a true mid-rise and be doubled in height. One block away City Council has approved 60 storey buildings. Why not allow more mid-rise near these ghastly, inhumane towers?? City planners seem almost sadistic the way they encourage these...
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    Toronto 191 College | 166.76m | 45s | Unix + York | 17|21

    Glad this was approved for no higher than 31 storeys. That's a reasonable height for the neighbourhood.
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    Toronto Toronto | 1677 Bathurst | 16.68m | 4s | Metroly Developments | RAW Design

    It's a shame this site is being sold. The new design is exquisite.
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    Toronto Toronto | Chabad of Midtown Addition | 15.61m | 4s | Chabad of Midtown | SvN

    Chabad are great neighbours, and this project will animate the corner really well. It's a little sad to see Albert's will be gone, but hopefully he'll simply move to somewhere else in the neighbourhood. The design is interesting = it's a replica of their founding rebbe's house in the UK...
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    Toronto Toronto | 1423 Dufferin Street | 28.75m | 9s | Toronto Standard | ps-a

    An excellent project. Sympathetic external expression, great scale, gentle density. Bravo!
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    Toronto Toronto | 1087 Yonge | 120.1m | 35s | Generation Capital | a—A

    To purchase this at $190/sq ft means the developer expects to get approval for a 50+ storey tower. The choice of architects-Alliance for the promo renders could mean they'll do the final designs. Cheap materials, too-few elevators and cramped units. This has high likelihood it'll be a repeat of...
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    Toronto Toronto | 580 King West | 43.39m | 11s | Constantine | Audax

    Great scale, massing and affinity for context. Even when Audax does modernism it's done well. 🤯
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    Toronto Toronto | 3440 Yonge | 18.59m | 5s | AUDAX

    Council should make as easy as possible these sorts of gentle densifications with quality architecture.
  12. J

    Toronto Toronto | 888 Dupont | 62m | 19s | Carttera | Graziani + Corazza

    Bingo. G+C and aA are the two worst offenders.
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    Toronto Toronto | 50 Scollard | 147.62m | 41s | Lanterra | Foster + Partners

    Then it's good that you have such a wide selection of tiny units to choose from!
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    Toronto Toronto | 50-90 Eglinton Avenue West | 169.03m | 49s | Madison Group | Audax

    This looks like a fantastic proposal with the right amount of density for the Eg/Yonge transit hub. The height is not excessive, the streetwall is a wonderful improvement of what was there previously, and the punched-windows/nod to early 20th century warehouse-expression is refreshing. Wonderful...
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    Toronto Toronto | 147 Spadina | 82.8m | 24s | Hullmark | Audax

    Remarkably empathetic design from the scale to the vernacular! It's lovely to see something that adds to the neighbourhood. That will be a spectacular corner if this gets built. Let's hope the materials don't cheap out.

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