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Old Posted May 7, 2017, 6:02 PM
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Koops, what an astonishing labour of love...I can see this becoming a very useful tool/file in the years ahead as more of these come to fruition and we seek to visualize each new development from different angles. Thank you so much!
Yeah, I keep thinking this would be a great interactive, virtual display at city hall to replace the outdated physical model. It's personalized and shows the future unlike 3D imagery software used by Google Earth, etc.
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Old Posted May 7, 2017, 6:31 PM
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Koops, what an astonishing labour of love...I can see this becoming a very useful tool/file in the years ahead as more of these come to fruition and we seek to visualize each new development from different angles. Thank you so much!
You're quite welcome!

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This is an impressive skyline in it's own right.
A bunch of those towers are waiting for an OMB decision.

150 Eglinton E - 157 metres, 39 floors
55 Broadway A & B - 155 metres, 45 floors X2
55 Eglinton E - 149 metres, 47 floors
85 Broadway - 38 floors
89 Roehampton - 119 metres, 36 floors

30 Erskine (bottom, centre) 115 metres, 35 floors, just received its decision, much to the dismay of the school next door...
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Old Posted May 7, 2017, 6:38 PM
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This is an impressive skyline in it's own right.
Regardless of skyline, Yonge-Eglinton has a cool and fun vibe, especially on the weekends, that's a little bit different than downtown due to the young and professional demographic that lives up there (sort of almost reminds me of King West near the Entertainment district).
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Old Posted May 7, 2017, 8:06 PM
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Yonge and Eglinton has always sold itself as a cool and happening place but, I always felt it rather low key and restrained compare to downtown. This huge gain in density is nearly all residential. Everyone will still head downtown for fun.
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Yonge and Eglinton has always sold itself as a cool and happening place but, I always felt it rather low key and restrained compare to downtown. This huge gain in density is nearly all residential. Everyone will still head downtown for fun.
Agreed, most of the fun of Y&E involves meeting neighbours/residents at local bars, restaurants, stores and venues for mixing and mingling, then heading out downtown for any big-time stuff. The same thing as the West King West scene. Kind of like a 24-hour meet-market with peers of a similar age range and income, less randomness than downtown. I hear the online thing is big around there too, but not really my thing. Anyway, it's just one more micro-community among many in Toronto. The variety of communities is what makes this city for me, there's always a niche somewhere that's perfect for anyone, at each particular point in their lives. Even the hippy and anti-urban types (Don Valley parkland picnics for recluses and new age drum circles in Kensington Market and various small parks/venues).
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Old Posted May 7, 2017, 8:42 PM
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True. Yonge & Eglinton hasn't really been on my radar in many years. A pub is enough for me now. I was never really impressed by the pub choices at Yonge and Eglinton and everytime I pass through it doesn't look like it has improved. The theatre away from the intersection is long gone too.

I'm happy to see the skyline develop and somewhat desire for towers stacked on towers density as a casual observer from the south. I just don't get the appeal of living in this future.

As long as the boom continues, many of these singles buying these condos will find out they have been priced out of the market when it comes to upgrading to family suites. This is happening with older condo developments and its unprecedented compared to previous booms. Yonge and Eligible will probably follow suit and become Married with Children in these tight, dense confines.
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Perhaps there's a huge appeal for looking into your neighbours units only 25 metres away... how are telescope and binocular sales doing in the city?
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Old Posted May 8, 2017, 1:33 AM
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I'm more concern with the community's infrastructure and amenities than someone seeing me naked. Take Cityplace. I've heard registration for the school is already at capacity. It's not even built yet! Only a few of these developments going up at Y&E includes retail and employment space is not keeping pace despite the cities best efforts. What's the point of living in high density if you still have to take a subway to do stuff. (including squeezing onto a crowded rush hour subway)

Liberty Village is better connected (being another place full of young urban lookers.)
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Perhaps there's a huge appeal for looking into your neighbours units only 25 metres away... how are telescope and binocular sales doing in the city?
lol, in this age of post-feminism, free online porn, VR headsets and highspeed internet, I think spending hours creeping on your neighbours for cheap thrills have already had their heyday
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Yeah I guess so... maybe I'm just old-fashioned!
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I was at Yonge and Eglinton yesterday

That place is insanely busy.
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Old Posted May 9, 2017, 5:52 PM
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lol, in this age of post-feminism, free online porn, VR headsets and highspeed internet, I think spending hours creeping on your neighbours for cheap thrills have already had their heyday
Naw. Nothing beats a good old fashioned telescope or binoculars at the office.
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. . . And a nice lawsuit if anyone catches you?

That is beyond creepy.
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Old Posted May 9, 2017, 7:00 PM
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Last week at the office our whole floor watched a girl in the condo next door do her personal hygiene on the couch. While she was wearing a thong.

The condo is so close it was like watching porn on the big screen.
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Back to the topic...

The downtown core, all the latest projects are added, but I may have missed a few older projects that have been cancelled:

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If all these proposals get built, Toronto will be at a point where even 200 metre towers get lost in the forest. Look at Bay-Park, it's almost hidden, and a bunch of new 150 - 170 metre towers proposed recently are barely noticeable, except a few that are well outside the core.
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Yonge Street 20 years from now will be a sight to behold.
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Back to the topic...

The downtown core, all the latest projects are added, but I may have missed a few older projects that have been cancelled:

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If all these proposals get built, Toronto will be at a point where even 200 metre towers get lost in the forest. Look at Bay-Park, it's almost hidden, and a bunch of new 150 - 170 metre towers proposed recently are barely noticeable, except a few that are well outside the core.
Thats true it took me a solid 2-3 minutes to even find Bay Park Centre.
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koops, have you tried raising the resolution to overcome the aliasing?
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Old Posted May 15, 2017, 2:46 AM
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I took that screenshot from my laptop, which has a crappy video card.
That's with the graphics settings turned to max...
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Here is basically the same viewpoint, this time taken from my old computer, (but with the better video card) and it's hooked to the big screen TV. I get images that are 1920 X 946 pixels...

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And from the opposite direction:

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