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Harbour plan needs daffiness weeded out

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / June 16

The outcome of Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp.'s (TWRC) international competition to make over the harbourfront, announced earlier this month, is a decidedly mixed bag of ideas, some worth pondering, others not worth thinking much about. Though I've long been among those Torontonians nagging TWRC to get a move on and do something about the urban shoreline of Lake Ontario, I think the winning proposals by the Rotterdam architectural firm West 8 and its several Canadian partners need considerable extra scrutiny before any shovels hit the ground. Take, for example, the suggestion that the Gardiner Expressway be demolished.

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