Last night, I once again forced myself to sit through a Water­front Devel­op­ment Sub­com­mit­tee meet­ing. While it was full of enough pro­ced­ur­al tedi­um and polit­ic­al pig­headed­ness to make sit­ting in broken glass dur­ing a Celine Dion con­cert seem like a pleas­ant altern­at­ive, it was worth it to get the latest updates and to see an inspir­ing present­a­tion from UN Stu­dio’s Hol­ger Hoff­man (since Ben van Berkel had to miss it due to ill­ness) about the pro­cesses behind their design for the trans­ition build­ing.

Here’s an update on pro­gress and plans, mainly based upon reports from the meet­ing, but with a few oth­er tid­bits.

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