Koops is bang on. It'll take a very long time, if ever, for skyscrapers to be uninterrupted from the lake to Eglinton. Midrises are still being built on several stretches.
Well, there is a solid midrise node at Summerhill and high rise nodes at Davisville and St. Clair. Even downtown there are areas of uninterrupted midrise-lowrise blocks.
Not hard to imagine the stretch on Yonge between Bloor and Summer hill getting some serious midrise action in the near future to better connect it with the towers to the North.
Nothing taller than 8 floors is missing. (That I know of, or can find)
There's a huge gap between Davenport and St. Clair, except for a couple of mid-rises beside my favorite LCBO, the old train station.
Yeah, the area between Summerhill and Bloor needs some solid mid-rise to have a decent urban connection to the core. But that's all that's really needed to connect the skyline from Bloor to Eglinton as you can see.
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Glad you guys liked it! But damn, things move so fast in the skyscraper world sometimes. It was outdated even before it got published. Even as we worked on it, 391 Yonge got cancelled, and only a few days after finishing, the Chelsea Gardens towers were upgraded to twin 88 storeys, One Yonge was downsized from 320 metres to 307, and 2 Carlton St. was announced. Also talk of a supertall at Yonge/Gerrard too. Crazy stuff happening...
Even with the size of those projects, wouldn't have made much of a difference in the scale of the rendering.
I can't imagine how huge the downtown core is 20 or 30 years from now, at this rate only Manhattan would be bigger, depending on if Chicago can go into a major construction growth spurt..
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