[a very long weekend]

man, it's vaguely astonishing how much building has been happening year in/year out up in toronto. hopefully it continues apace - imagine in 2020 or 2025 with a few hundred more towers! like, it seems to me that, highrise-wise, the toronto is only now getting real architectural quality. those green glass towers and the spandrel and that, fuck all that. but some of these renderings are straight up beautiful. it happens in boom areas, where once the market catches up with demand, builders start using great architecture to stand out. miami is going that way, seattle, vancouver, houston. anyway, the point there is that now that the threshold has been breached, it seems like you're in for a crop of great architecture over the next few years, as long as the market stays steady.

also, you can tell the market is maturing, because the virus known as architectonica has made an appearance.