alklay said:
Wow. The amount of nonsense in the above posts is astonishing, and a bit sad, with respect.

"Stupidtall" buildings, add little if anything to a city's worth, in any category that matters (starting with 'liveability'). It is nothing more than immature and shallow bragging rights.
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Alklay, if we obsess about the numbers then, yes, it's stupid.

But if you see a 400 m + tall building in the flesh, it's almost always a commanding presence and sometimes breathtaking in a way that, for some reason, a 250 to 300 meter building is not. A 400 m tall building is actually more of a presence in a city where most surrounding buildings are 200 meters than a 200 meter building in a city with no highrises at all.
 
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^Looks like any number of proposed mega-projects for Dubai or Kowloon. But I'll take it, so desperate am I for the glass box pox to be eradicated from this city.

It will also make a fine background for car ads, music videos (if they still make those) and perhaps a future James Bond film.
 
Those renders are insane. The main (tallest) tower looks better than I imagined. They filled up all the adjacent lots eastward so it looks busier than it should. Is there still an addition to the Toronto Star building in that render? Doesn't seem like it.
 
Irishmonk said:
^Looks like any number of proposed mega-projects for Dubai or Kowloon. But I'll take it, so desperate am I for the glass box pox to be eradicated from this city.

It will also make a fine background for car ads, music videos (if they still make those) and perhaps a future James Bond film.
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Hear hear! Plus it looks good. That's quite rare for a multi-tower proposal.
 
Seems like they want to continue to line up a tall wall of structures on the south-side of Lake Shore east
 
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iliamerk said:
Is there still an addition to the Toronto Star building in that render? Doesn't seem like it.
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Presumably this is Yonge & Lakeshore so The Toronto Star building is on the far right of those buildings, no?
 
From the rendering, it looks like the additional 10 stories of the Toronto Star Building will contrast against the original building below. Looks like there will be no horizontal concrete ledges between each floor!

The main building itself looks incredible, especially the upper portion. The other buildings are alright, but I'm more happy about the skyline expanding eastward and adding some more density to the Waterfront.
 
It's not bad, but someday the DRP will get the plans, and i'm afraid the results won't be pretty. The nimby's will be out in force, and demand changes.
 
Looks incredible, indeed.....please keep it away from the soul destroying, design smothering evil that is the DRP...
 
Hm the main tower and the tower immediately to the the right look amazing. The tower immediately to the left looks promising. But the building immediately to the left of the Toronto Star building looks horrid. It's just a glass box and what's worse, a glass box with shoddy cladding. Obviously this is very early on but I hope they don't expect to make 2-3 buildings look amazing and then just cheapen out on the rest. Other than that, the whole block is going to be very interesting to watch.
 
Even if they have to concede some height to appease community groups/councillors I'll still take these, look great.
 
The scale of this is, in my opinion, fitting for the foot of Toronto's premier street. I can't see why there would be calls to reduce height here.
So much of design is subjective, the design review panel should only deal with the how the project meets the street and casts shadows. The rest should be up to the disigners and architects themselves.
 
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