hkskyline's 2024 in TORONTO

[hkskyline]

The Well is a new residential and commercial development just across the street from Cityplace. The bottom part of the development is a new shopping mall with pedestrianized streets and a protective canopy, a rare treat in this city. Hope it holds up during the winter. Many shops are not yet ready yet when I visited during the summer 2024 so it'll take a bit more time to settle in.























































More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm
My 2023 thread : https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=253679

[xzmattzx]

Nice pictures! I have heard about The Well from a former member, and it seems really interesting!

[Murphy de la Sucre]

yea it looks well, and it looks like a well

[hkskyline]

The downtown condo boom is pretty much over but there are still a lot of cranes in the sky and buildings under construction. Although Canada has an overall housing shortage, I doubt the new immigrants can afford a downtown unit. Yet building more suburbia is bad for the environment and the already nasty traffic.





























More photos on my website : Toronto, Canada Photo Gallery

[xzmattzx]

Nice update already!

[geomorph]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

I like the ribs (fins?)!

[hkskyline]

City Hall has been home to a Toronto scale model for as long as I can remember. It's still there, and looks updated to include recent residential developments all around downtown.





















More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm

[hkskyline]

Vaughan's metropolitan centre is taking shape with a lot of new condo towers but still even more parking lots and industrial areas.































More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm

[Wigs]

Vaughan MCC is so strange. Toronto's northern suburb known for the largest amusement park - Canada's Wonderland, where light industrial has thrived for decades and many Italians/Italian-Canadians settled is now building massive amounts of residential, office, or mixed use high-rises now even fully fledged skyscrapers at 50-60+ storeys exceeding 600 feet tall.

It's wild that you can take the subway north from downtown Toronto all the way to here.
I wonder what it will look like in 5, 10, 20 years. I wish they had subdivided the parcels more to avoid the superblock towers look and encourage more walkability.

Thanks for all of the photos.

[hkskyline]

Yet, Vaughan is historically known for lowrise suburbs and industrial buildings like these landscapes.

































More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm

[hkskyline]

Yorkville Murals took place on a late August 2024 weekend that transformed Yorkville Avenue into pop-up art exhibitions.























More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm

[hkskyline]

The Canadian National Exhibition was first held in 1879 during the late summer leading to the Labour Day holiday, providing entertainment and a venue to showcase the country's innovations. Its focus has changed from agriculture to a mixed carnival with shows, food, air show, and more. I came to try out some querky foods that you can't readily get outside.































More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

[size=3]The Canadian National Exhibition was first held in 1879 during the late summer leading to the Labour Day holiday, providing entertainment and a venue to showcase the country's innovations. Its focus has changed from agriculture to a mixed carnival with shows, food, air show, and more. I came to try out some querky foods that you can't readily get outside.

Primo is one of, if not THE most mass produced brands of pasta, pasta/pizza sauce, canned beans in Canada.

You can get 900 grams/~2 lbs of pasta for $1.99 CAD or <$1.50 USD equivalent. I recall when it would be on sale for 88 cents.

Food Basics grocery store current flyer

Funny to see them serving up pasta at The Ex
I guess so new Canadians will remember them as "great value for the money"

What carnival food did you end up trying?

[hkskyline]

Originally Posted by Wigs

I guess so new Canadians will remember them as "great value for the money"

What carnival food did you end up trying?

Primo pasta looked interesting but given it is a cheap brand, I saved my quota for other foods!

I had the ramen on the cross (nothing special), Mexican corn with cheese and spicy sprinkles, and wasabi ice-cream (highlight of the night).

[Wigs]

Wasabi ice cream sounds good.
Once you've had top notch ramen, it'd be unusual for a carnival to have really good stuff up to par. I have yet to try elote, but the spicy looking one appears tempting!

[xzmattzx]

I was wondering what food you had too!

[ariachen0103]

Wow, I remember this places, sometime ago visited them during family vacations. Amazing photos, I saw somewhere else those wasabi ice cream, but... I was not brave enough to try it, I can't stand very spicy food at all(((