mburrrrr
Senior Member
Sunday from the market
Today
Sunday
Today
Sunday
ImmenselyMental
Active Member
Here are a few photos I took of CIBC Square from yesterday afternoon:
tstormers
Senior Member
From this morning, Jan. 30th
xmyth_
Senior Member
Civdis
Active Member
Every time I look down at the train shed roof, I think of what could have been with a green roof. Would have made a massive difference from above!
mburrrrr
Senior Member
Maybe when all the diesel trains are gone they can continue the glass roof or green roof.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...was that the main reason for not going with a green roof here? That is, the exhaust was poison to anything they had plan to grow there?
mburrrrr
Senior Member
I don’t know. Did they have that much forward thinking?
I’m just speculating but once the diesel is gone they could fully cover the roof. That would be logical to me.
DSCToronto
Superstar
The roof was saved because it is a rare kind of 'historic roof' SEE: https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/union-station-train-shed/ and https://zeidler.com/projects/union-station-train-shed-revitalization/
rdaner
Senior Member
The roofs are probably seen by some as the starting point for future development. Anyone remember the proposal to put a hockey arena above Union?! 
KAR246
Active Member
January 31st photos:
Wellington and Yonge
From the Skywalk:
Wellington and Yonge
From the Skywalk:
APTA-2048
Senior Member
I swear I saw something from Metrolinx a couple of years ago that actually blamed electrification for not going forward with the green roof. Can’t find anything now, though.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
Seems like they are really making up a bingo card in not proceeding with a green roof here...making me more suspicious that they just really didn't want to bother with one.
...that being said and more on topic, let's focus on the positive development of the park deck that's coming with these towers instead.
WB62
Senior Member
Back when the green roof was cancelled Metrolinx likely had no idea what would've needed to be done to electrify Union (lowering the tracks, raising the roof, any structural modification to the lower part of it), and I’m sure going through a green roof would’ve complicated any of those plans if they were deemed necessary.
I honestly bet the way they’re going to electrify Union still isn’t 100% figured out, oh well now they have more time to figure that out than originally thought…
xmyth_
Senior Member
Ugh. It’s February, the robots have forced us to block out the sun, tariffs just raised the price of imported emu eggs to $98- I’m getting impatient with all these buildings. They should put off the top to get the first ten stories done. I’m never going above the park, it’s already blocking the CN tower, so I don’t care what it looks like. They can take their time topping off. What I want is a fancy lobby, a bridge across Bay st and another block of indoor I can go and avoid the weather with. Step on it!
(Also, it’d be funny if Apple just surprised everyone by dropping a store here. Not gonna happen but still)
(Also, it’d be funny if Apple just surprised everyone by dropping a store here. Not gonna happen but still)