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Beauty is only skin deep<\/h3>\n

If I had a dollar for every time I heard the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153architectural excellence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d referring to development along the waterfront, I’d have enough money to buy a condo with a view of the lake. But since no one’s handing out loonies, I’m starting to find those two words grating. It’s not that excellent architecture shouldn’t be part of our water’s edge; it’s just that it takes much more than eye-popping design to create a great waterfront.<\/p>\n

Take CityPlace, the 18-hectare site to the west of the Roger’s Centre (née SkyDome), which will be home to 20 towers with 7,000 units. The condo towers themselves could be a work of architectural genius, but with fewer than 100 units containing three or more bedrooms suitable for family housing, they are bound to be a failure. As Adam Vaughan<\/strong> has pointed out, a school has been proposed for the site, but there are few places for the children who are supposed to fill it to live. Any development that’s going to inject the population equivalent of a small village into downtown Toronto should include housing for a variety of tenants, not just the young, transient and upwardly mobile.<\/p>\n

Project Symphony will be one of the first new buildings constructed as part of Waterfront Toronto’s grand plan. Architect Jack Diamond<\/strong> should create an exceptional building here. If Waterfront Toronto (née Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation) hopes to attract others to build according to its near-utopic vision of large, vibrant, environmentally sustainable communities where people can work, live, play, have families and grow old, they’ll have to be creative.<\/p>\n

As with CityPlace, what happens inside the building and how it relates to the greater community it sits in is just as important. The other goal of Project Symphony is to bring jobs to the waterfront so that when residents eventually move into the area, places to work will already exist. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To have jobs where people live is the most green thing you can do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mayor David Miller<\/strong> when council debated the development last month. Whether or not it’s the greenest thing may be debatable, but the goal is a commendable one — almost as great as excellent architecture.<\/p>\n

Sex sells, but only if you’re sexy<\/h3>\n

David Whitaker<\/strong>, the new CEO of Tourism Toronto, isn’t afraid to tell it like it is — or like he thinks it is. As the Toronto Star<\/em> recently reported, he’s referred to Summerhill (where he lives) as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Springhill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Yorkville as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yorktown.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Known for his successful campaign to revive tourism in Miami with the aid of ad campaigns depicting scantily clad women posing with palm trees and golf clubs, Whitaker told the Star that he’s not planning to take the same approach to selling life in T.O. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We’ll never be successful marketing a Toronto that doesn’t exist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Tell that to the glamour hounds chilling under the palm trees in Yorktown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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