ponyboycurtis
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The Reddit comments on this the other day were hilarious. Like.. bro if your calling this junk have you looked around? Sure the tower portions are a bit plain bit the ground level podium areas seem quite nice to me.
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I want to know what those people think is nice.
jay2028
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Most of them think anything around 5 floors is nice.
Of course. It's not a design thing, it's a height thing.
jay2028
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Some keep going on about Europe but cities like London do have tall buildings.
And Paris was razed to build up the uniformity we have today.
As someone who places great importance on heritage, I prefer having tall buildings in certain key areas in order to preserve as much of the pre-war building stock as possible. If you limit your city to 6 or 8 floors, the more will need to be demolished.
Approved by Planning.
ponyboycurtis
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Yes. To a certain extent I like how they treat Yonge st. south of Bloor. They have kept a lot of the old building stock and the towers are are bumped to the adjacent lot on the side streets. It's a sensible way to preserve your high streets/shopping drags while increasing density.
jay2028
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Might be one of the better parts of Toronto because of that.