I love this, but sadly will not be built this decade. There is no money for new housing in the city, even though we get wacky proposals every other week.
This, of course, is the total tribute to the wrong physics of earthquake engineering. They expect a nice, gentle pendulum wag, like a metronome. Not good for fish tanks in the building, but they expect it to stand. It's like that bridge between towers, shaving the codes to within an inch of their lives.
Real earthquakes have a punch to them, they call it 'fling'. This will bend over and shoot people out like a catapult. Well, it will never be built, and we can go on to the next thing.
ps the Toronto housing market is a dead man walking, or a zombie market. The only real facts we have is that any house actually sold goes for 50% off. All the rest is flim-flam, kept up by the banks and gov't, and the usual media. This is just like Japan, and will take years to finally wallow in big ditch.
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