http://blog.fawny.org/2007/03/20/modernization/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/03/20/modernization/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 TTC design charrette ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:44:59 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/03/20/modernization/#comment-1087 [...] beautiful old building. The purpose was to mock up ideas for TTC subway entrances. I had previously covered this issue, saying, among other things, that it was a joke to offer A-list architects five grand [...] [...] beautiful old building. The purpose was to mock up ideas for TTC subway entrances. I had previously covered this issue, saying, among other things, that it was a joke to offer A-list architects five grand [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/03/20/modernization/comment-page-1/#comment-722 Erecting a façade – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:11:04 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/03/20/modernization/#comment-722 [...] Latterly, I complained that the TTC ignored a request from its own commissioners to produce a report on its lousy signage. It didn’t even include that uncompleted report on a list of uncompleted reports. But, with lightning speed, it turned around a response to TTC chair Adam Giambrone to beautify (“modernize”) the entrances of eight downtown stations, “Museum, Queen’s Park, St. Patrick, Osgoode, St. Andrew, King, Dundas[,] and College.” Signage was to be included in this apparently pointless charette, to which I objected. [...] [...] Latterly, I complained that the TTC ignored a request from its own commissioners to produce a report on its lousy signage. It didn’t even include that uncompleted report on a list of uncompleted reports. But, with lightning speed, it turned around a response to TTC chair Adam Giambrone to beautify (“modernize”) the entrances of eight downtown stations, “Museum, Queen’s Park, St. Patrick, Osgoode, St. Andrew, King, Dundas[,] and College.” Signage was to be included in this apparently pointless charette, to which I objected. [...]

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