Blamblog - Brett Lamb's Blog



	About happycreature[at]gmail[dot[com] [ BLAMBLOG ] Ed Locke's Grandpa Happy Creature Ms. Johnson www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from blamb. Make your own badge here. [ PILOTS! ] Azerbic BlaggBlog Cityrag Clusterfuck Nation Daily Muse Dead Robot democraticSPACE Enter the Chapel estrojenn 50 Most Finn's Space John Gushue Panopticist Patrick Byck PezGirl Simple Splendor Raspberry Sundae TBIT [ A-TEAM ] AllThingsChristie & BWE Bill Doskoch Circadian Shift Daily Dose Davezilla Dooce Jett Superior Kitty Bukkake Sugarmama Tony Pierce [ TORONTO ROCKS ] Accordion Guy Alan Hunt Andrew Spicer Angie McKaig armchair garbageman Bacon and Eh's BlogTO Bored Astronaut Cellar Dweller Chip Tijuana Chromewaves Clara* Consolation Champs Biker Chick Dave Howard Day in the Life Digifox Easternblog freckle stof Help! Ice Queen indigoblog JBWarehouse Liz Vang Luminescent Lunerose Maria Marmalade moot point Nug Photojunkie Pony Pshaw Radio Weisblogg Raymi Riri's Braindump RobotJohnny Sally McKay Sarah Pengelly Secret Storm ShanghaiM Squiddity Ultrablog United Bingdom wainbows Warren Kinsella Zoilus [ ALL IN THE FAMILY ] Merv! Dad! Gillian Kevin! [ ORGANIZIZED ] GTA Bloggers TorontoComic Jam [ BEACHCOMBERS ] Confessions of a Monkey Good, Matthew Good, Jennifer Ian King Jeff Merritt [ GOTHAM CITY ] Explananda Lindsayism My Blog is Poop Rocketboom Yoon! [ ST. ELSEWHERE ] Blogebrity blogumentary Brett Lamb: Oz Bunny McIntosh Dust My Broom elanamatic Fred the Blog Go Fug Yourself Grrrl Meets World James Bow Little Lioness 72hrchik SKSmith Shelly Skillzy Tom Tomorrow [ 6 O'CLOCK NEWS ] boing boing Cursor Drawn! Fark Garlicster Metafilter Plastic The Register SciFi Daily Sexblogs Slashdot Space.com The Smoking Gun Zeropaid [ CARTOONS ] Corrigan Children of the Atom Fiona Smyth Maakies MacKay MNFTIU.cc Secret Lair Smell of Steve [ VARIETY HOUR ] B3TA Hoogerbrugge Milk & Cookies Mumbleboy Onion Rathergood XE [ RERUNS ] [ 2005 ] JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER [ 2004 ] MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER [ 2002 ] [ 2003 ]	Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Rich People's Toys William Thorsell is used to defending the indefensible, back in the day Frank magazine nicknamed him "TorySell" because he was a vocal Mulroney partisan. But this is one fight he should avoid, 'cause the proposed ROM South Tower is a monster that needs to be stopped. It's bad for two key reasons: Height It's way too tall. I like tall buildings: I generally approve of the Minto Towers, I thought it was unfortunate that the NY Towers were built shorter and more squat than they were supposed to be. But you can't just stick extremely tall buildings willy-nilly throughtout the city. Context is important and buildings of similar mass generally should stick together. There is nothing even remotely this size in the vicinity -- there are hardly any residential buildings this height anywhere in the city. And compare it to the ROM; if you lay it on its side it's longer than the museum ... once built, the contrast will make the ROM seem tiny. Purpose This condo is for really rich people. Our city's elite seem to think that public institutions like the ROM are their playthings. Is it appropriate for a public institution to link itself so closely to the super-rich, especially at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor in this city is growing? Thorsell is selling out our public space to the rich. In the end, it all boils down to context. It's the wrong type of building and wrong size of building in the wrong place. Stop it, stop Bill. 9:55 AM , # , \|