WedgeSite

When I first moved to Toronto, I discovered this site close to where I live, defined by the rails of the train and King street. It is a wedge-shaped site, with a really dynamic feeling to it, formed as it is by transport infrastructure. Soon it will be saturated with mindless 'victorian' row-housing, which is sad for a parcel of land with such potential.

I now realize that this site is in fact part of a chain of such pieces of land left over from the industrial activity surrounding the rail line that run all the way from down by Fort York up to near Dupont. Most of these sites are now being developed either for row-housing or apartment buildings. For an area with so much potential for drama and dynamism, it is rather disappointing that the architecture will probably not do it justice.