General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[tomh009]

Now of course building design guidelines that cities impose on developers unfortunately play a huge role in how a building can be designed. A big reason why so many residential towers and skyscrapers in Toronto, such as the one I live in, have these balconies that wrap around the entire building is because there are rules to how big the floorplate of a building can be which causes everything from design challenges to physics challenges (picture a computer CPU heatsink...yeah the building is doing the exact same thing as that in terms of energy). The cities in the Region of Waterloo also have their own guidelines that offer real unfortunate challenges and limitations.

Would glassed-in balconies (as typically used in Finland, for example) still count against the FAR etc?