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Alex Bozikovic
@alexbozikovic
Architecture critic @globeandmail | Author | Instructor @uoftdaniels | Husband to @livmendelsohn and father of two city kids

Jun 11, 2021, 6 tweets

Downtown Toronto now: beautiful dense housing (@GH3architects and Claude Cormier)... which requires demolishing a 24-storey apartment tower. 1/

Proposal for 25 St Mary Street by the landlord/developer @TenblockTO. Beautiful. 2/

But this should not be a teardown. 3/

Really a textbook example of urbane high density and an attractive public realm. With a Godzilla-sized carbon footprint. 4/

To clarify one thing: City of Toronto does have a laudable rental replacement policy, so current tenants have the right to return on comparable terms. This is imperfect but meaningful 5/

Why this pattern? 6/

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