Category: UrbanToronto

Huge new LED sign set for bright-lights magnet on Yonge

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New giant screen will be about 25 by 31 metres
More to come at magnet for visitorss, kids
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Yonge Dundas Square, Toronto’s bright-lights magnet for tourists and the young, is about to get a new LED sign bigger than anything the City has seen. It will sit atop the Cinexplex building at 10 Dundas East and will measure 25 metres by 31 metres. It is part of what Urban Toronto calls a “massive digital display makeover” for the corner. Great fun.

Bigger outdoor screen for 20-year era of Scotiabank Arena

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Urban Toronto reports on the imminent (July 1) start of Scotiabank’s 20-year naming period for the arena now called Air Canada Centre. A most notable element is the replacement and enlargement of the outdoor screen on the arena’s west atrium overlooking Bremner Blvd. and Maple Leaf Square. It is known as Jurassic Park during Raptors events. Urban Toronto

UrbanToronto feature on high-rise at 146/150 Laird Drive

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The architectural and planing website UrbanToronto has a full article on the Viva Life development proposed at 146/150 Laird Drive near McRae Drive.  The article is informative but it seems a bit out of touch with the fierce resistance to the project. This is particularly so as it describes the stepped nature of the west side of the building, a supposed concession to those who live on Randolph Ave. and has been dismissed as feature found in Kremlin-like design.  UrbanToronto  Angry residents demand stop