Harbourfront

Harbourfront is buzzing with excitement during the winter months (festivals/art exhibits/skating) If anything, people want more places like these.

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And besides, when it comes to urban aesthetics, you forgot about an even more fascinating third option, which was sort of extemporaneously carried out in Harbourfront’s winsome pre-condo early days: a shoreline as one long proto-urban-explorationist playscape/dreamscape among the remains of industrial archaeology.

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They were originally numbered 601 Yonge-University-Spadina, 602 Bloor-Danforth, 603 Scarborough RT and 604 Harbourfront LRT (now the Union Stn to Spadina part of 509 & 510).

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For a smaller sailing experience, catch one of the fast ferries across to Hamilton, where one can dine in style overlooking the port at the Harbourfront Restaurant.

Losing Oneself in Bermuda William Lyons 2011

And of course, as we know from the Wychwood Barns or Don Valley Brickworks, you can creatively adapt the “brown” and still be “green” – consider that as a hint of what an “industrialesque” Harbourfront “could have been”.

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But logistically, given the nature of usage here, that would have been all but impossible to carry out – not only because of the linging industrial legacy, but also because of overbearing complexes like Harbour Square putting their foot in the door even * before* the feds “gifted” Harbourfront to the city.

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When the day comes that the people have used so much of the space that is already available to them that Harbourfront Centre (for example) is bursting at the seams, then we should look at expanding public space.

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The trust's portfolio will include Singapore properties such as the VivoCity shopping mall, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Harbourfront and the PSA Building.

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Ah, but remember my remarks about the 70s post-industrial, pre-condo incarnation of Harbourfront.

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