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Old Posted Oct 30, 2017, 11:40 PM
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Here's something super boring -- quick 1 hour sketch -- but important for us to think about: how tall should a building at Bloor and Spadina be? Two subway lines meet here. I am guessing the developer wants ~30-36 storeys here, so I kind of went crazy with my ask

the site could probably fit 2 towers so the density will remain the same
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Old Posted Nov 19, 2017, 8:56 AM
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Here's what I'd probably do with the Christie Cookie factory site at Park Lawn and Lake Shore:


100% six storey tall street wall everywhere with retail fronting Lake Shore and Park Lawn and some along the new Cookie Street, with 6-8 balcony towers between 30 and 75 storeys, a school/daycare/community centre/library facing a public park with restored Christie water tower and several blocks of TCHC social housing. Extend Silver Moon Drive north and west towards Park Lawn. ~6000 housing units, 10% affordable housing. Finally, extend the proposed DRL subway line from city hall along Queen Street West to Humber Bay Shores with a station at Park Lawn and Lake Shore. And maybe 10 floors of office space in the tower right at PL & LS.
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Old Posted Nov 19, 2017, 3:43 PM
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Wow, that sounds ambitious. Interesting plan there.
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Old Posted Nov 19, 2017, 4:50 PM
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Where do I send my resume to apply for a teaching position at "Cookie Monster School"?!?!?!
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Old Posted Jan 14, 2018, 2:02 PM
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Hmm maybe to 415 Yonge Street?

Gave me an idea for my next facade

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Not bad of a design for that site!
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Old Posted Jan 15, 2018, 12:44 AM
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If I were a developer, I'd develop communities by building super Eco-friendly Passive and Net Zero Houses exclusively and revolutionize residential building practices and technology in a progressive way. It makes perfect sense for our harsh winter weather and expensive utility. It'd be a win-win for everyone.
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Old Posted Jan 22, 2018, 10:41 AM
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Remixing another of my fave designs onto the 415 Yonge site:






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Old Posted Apr 28, 2018, 10:51 PM
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Hanging out in K-W this past week, I was spending some time walking the barren midtown strip between Uptown Waterloo and the train station near Victoria. So a modest proposal to improve things by c.2050:

6 storey midrises lining the main drag aka King Street, with some 4s stacked towns on the side streets and several office buildings up to 10 storeys tall across the street from the Google campus.

Looking west along King Street from near the train station towards Waterloo

the station district/innovation district west

Central Fresh Market and area to be redeveloped ...

extending all the way to Union Blvd.
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Old Posted Jun 2, 2018, 7:24 AM
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Does anyone read the G&M? M+G's canopy something like?


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Heard nothing of it, I don't read from the Globe and Mail much at all.
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Old Posted Jun 17, 2018, 9:26 AM
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King East/West grid facade idea
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Old Posted Oct 21, 2018, 8:33 AM
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yimby or nimby?

Eglinton/Avenue
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Old Posted Jun 12, 2019, 5:16 AM
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Kitchener's Civic District is an urban planning disaster: acres of parking, windswept plazas, hideous modern architectural failures - true the revamped library is nice but it's gotta go when the city is amalgamated with Waterloo and Cambridge forming the City of Grand River. And while the acoustics are great at Centre in the Square it's very dated.. The block is bounded by Queen St North/Ellen St/Frederick/Weber Street.


Last weekend the University of Waterloo school of architecture and KW art gallery ran a design charrette envisioning a revitalized civic district. Inspired by the challenge I'm working on my vision: Berlin Square c.2050. The red buildings are mixed use office/retail; white - residential/retail; blue/transparent - 3 heritage buildings in Berlin Square proper including the Registry building. Heights between 4 and 16 storeys, up to 3000 residential units - 30% affordable housing.


facades facing Berlin Square


Phase 2: the Frederick/Lancaster/Weber triangle.

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Old Posted Jun 28, 2019, 3:38 AM
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Everyone agrees the proposed Chateau Laurier extension looks like $#!t which got me thinking: from modern to classical to somewhere in between what could go here?
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Still thinking about Chateau Laurier - so many different schemes in mind including something like





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Old Posted Jul 11, 2019, 6:07 AM
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How about an aA-style point tower beside Chateau Laurier?




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Old Posted Jul 20, 2019, 12:17 AM
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It's becoming obvious that Kitchener-Waterloo's main street retail is dying and the LRT is empty because not enough people live along its route and in their downtowns. Midtown has enough space for another 100,000 people:


Grand River Hospital and St Mary's hospital should merge into a super hospital near King and Victoria along with a large new central library and recreational facility. That frees up a lot of land for intensification: Berlin Square and Midtown for example.

There's plenty of other space in areas nearby for another 500k people without destroying neighbourhood character homes. eg the Belmont-Glasgow corridor, Weber and Union triangle along the train tracks, uptown and downtown parking lots, Victoria Street from Westmount to Breslau.
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Old Posted Aug 3, 2019, 10:25 PM
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I'm not a fan of dull proposals like 315 Spadina. An alternative: D'Arcy Lofts



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