Monday 14 October 2013

New York is building it's tallest towers, the New World Trade Center, and other towers it has underway or planned are have a certain high quality that we here in Toronto have yet to attain

Currently New York is building skyscrapers, however not at the same torid pace at which Toronto is constructing highrise towers. In fact New York is building it's tallest towers, the New World Trade Center, and other towers it has underway or planned are have a certain high quality that we here in Toronto have yet to attain. Toronto has some great towers, no doubt, our most beloved skyscraper right now, that can go toe to toe with anything in New York City, is the Scotiaplaza (Scotia Plaza) Tower. However, beyond that much in Toronto is just average fair. Toronto was never supposed to be a world beating, worldwide overachieving city. We were just supposed to be a provincial farming town and a far flung military outpost for British Soliders, and nothing more. 

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So, now Toronto is flying skywards with buildings that are challenging world greats, like New York, Chicago, London, and Hong Kong, how will we do this, what do we need to build to ensure our architectural supremacy, when we are basically starting with nothing. Firstly what we need to do is fill all those suburban home style tracks in our downtown core, of course, there are not that many to fill, but those that remain on the fringes of downtown are prime target for architectural masterful infill projects, like 12 degrees, and Victory, and Thompson Hotel and condos. This will work well on the fringes, as we move into downtown, 12 to 20 floor older buildings, must be demolished, and razed, and replaced with soaring towers of architectural significance. An example of this would be what is currently happening with Casa 2 on the northern downtown (Yorkville) where an old 10 or 11 floor building is being replaced with a 62 floor modern glass and steel tower. Other proposals like that on King West with Mirvish and Gerhry's Projectcore development will change every aspect of life on King West. 

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