Growing Up: Are Toronto’s new condos built to last? | Toronto Star: "Building experts worry too many condos are going up with window walls because they're cheaper and faster to erect. They say they're doomed to fail.
By: Antonia Zerbisias Feature Writer, Published on Sun Mar 24 2013
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One in an occasional series on the GTA’s growing density and its effects on life in the city.
Toronto needs its glass consciousness raised.
Building experts say resiliency and energy efficiency are going out the window with all those floor-to-ceiling glass walls being installed in the city’s towering condos.
“There’s only one reason why all these buildings have floor-to-ceiling windows: it’s because architects and builders are lazy,” maintains retired architect and developer Lloyd Alter, who now writes for Treehugger.com and teaches sustainable design at Ryerson University."
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