Recent content by maestro

Underground parking is expensive. Anyone that can afford a car here is going to want a car. Those that can't afford one will be at a disadvantage. Transit's success is reducing car trips. More Canadians being car free is a sign of unaffordability than diminished returns from driving. This could...

I've never been concerned over the tower's base here. It's brick. Any spandrel will be hidden behind other features. 25 more storeys of the tower's glass cladding installed so far is not as easy to ignore should the commercial base turn out as good or better than the renderings.

Well the brick was a nice touch. The cladding is terrible with lots of spandrel with inconsistent spacing between the mullions. Why is it so hard to build with one window pane size like they did over a century ago with authentic loft conversions? My inner Surealplaces likes black mullions were...

Ticket sales won't get a half billion dollar stadium built. The value of the Stamps is no more than $40 million. I can't see CSEC investing more than $20 million in the team and facilities.

In my unscientific opinion, this needs more square footage. There's some room to expand the back a bit and still have some separation from 707 and build up 3 to 5 floors on the back half.

More spandrel than windows on the ground floor! Did a blood bank for vampires lease all the retail?

Dead trees aren't typically excluded from permitting. It's another tax revenue source. If it discourages someone from removing a healthy tree than that's a good thing. It's been a bad decade for urban tree canopies with changing climates and it can't all be on public property. Most major...

Planting Ash is risky as the climate changes.

I'm not getting a clear picture even with all the renderings. Looks like a gated community. The plus side, an LRT station gives people an alternative to driving to the core. I hate that transit (in Toronto) is being used as a high density community builder and to justify over developed...

Those walls are thin. Hopefully, the bedrooms aren't next to each other. Someone will be awakened by their neighbour farting in their sleep. This should keep housing affordable

Nice touch. I was expecting aluminium spandrel

IExperts speculate the office market could take decades to recover. It's not in the best interest of Bentall/ GWLRA/ Quadreal on behalf of BCIMC to sit on these diminishing office values. Rental income doesn't justify construction. GWLRA building The Livmore Eau Claire on some of the surface...

I like that the original tower design came right down to the street over the new podium look. The original cladding was tired. I wonder how this will look in 20 years..Worse than the 60 year old original cladding? Surely something good could be said by a tower so ugly it turns us to stone...

The writedowns are not happening in the rental apartment market.

The owner has assets worth $230 billion. I don't think lending interest rates are that much of a concern.