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Scene: A New Entrance for Queen’s Park Station

By • Photos by Corbin Smith

WHERE: College Street and University Avenue, Southeast Corner

WHEN: Earlier today

WHAT: Queen’s Park Station users are getting a new way down to the tracks, done up in a style meant to complement the architectural sensibilities of the still-under-construction MaRS Centre Phase II (and provided by that project’s developer, to replace the entrance that was there when the City gave them approval to build). Currently, the new structure is still behind construction fences, but the aim is to have it open for business on or around June 1, according to Rob Stewart, a spokesperson for MaRS. The entrance will be stairs-only, but anyone who wants to ride an elevator down will eventually be able use the ones in the MaRS Centre, which will have an underground connection to the station.

Comments

  • snyberTO

    Looks good but why is there no TTC logo or “Subway” sign on it? The entrance building directly to the north has the same problem. Hopefully no tourists are looking actual TTC signage….

    • Anonymous

      I assume there’ll be some signpost somewhere with a lit TTC sign on it.

  • Anonymous

    Is that Arial?

    • snyberTO

      Yes, the TTC doesn’t get that their own font is a major branding asset….

    • Quadrat

      No, looks like Helvetica. I thought the TTC had learned it’s branding lesson already. Yeesh.

      • Anonymous

        But for everything other than old tiled walls with the TTC font on it, everything on the TTC that looks like it could be Helvetica is some kind of scrunched, stretched or otherwise borked Arial.

        • Anonymous

          You’ve gotta be pretty anal retentive to even notice…

          • Anonymous

            Not really. When you’re accustomed to the TTC’s half-assed approach to most things, however, this new entrance stands out just by being adequate.

          • Anonymous

            No. Really. You do.

          • Anonymous

            Maybe, but so what?

          • Anonymous

            Why did you f’n reply to me than?

          • Anonymous

            Why did you f’n reply to me than [sic]?

            Because you bothered to tell me your opinion in the first place, I guess.

            I don’t see why being ‘pretty anal retentive to even notice’ should mean that it’s not worth discussing or that it’s not a problem. Sure, it’s a minor thing. But the people who notice what the TTC does in terms of typography notice that these things tend to look like crap and that the TTC has a track record of making things look like crap. It may not be so important in this instance but it is when you want people to be able to find their way and read signs from an appropriate distance.

            You don’t notice? Great. But if no one notices when it really matters and no one says anything, nothing will get better.

            When the voices speak to you, do they have discernible differences in personality?

            Charming. I might have known you’d continue with the amateur psychiatry theme from your first reply.

          • Anonymous

            Tldr

          • Anonymous

            Troll.

          • Anonymous

            Yes, definition of troll is someone who doesn’t bother to read long-winded, try-hard posts…

            Idiot.

            I simply pointed something out – made an observation if you will. You’re so f’n anal retentive you got your panties in a bunch for nothing.

          • Anonymous

            I’ll keep it short then: you’re a troll for thinking you can dismiss everything with a short, snotty comeback. Now fuck off.

          • Anonymous

            Pot meet kettle!

            P.S. that’s STILL not the definition of troll. Idiot.

          • jen

            Or a designer. I noticed too.

          • Anonymous

            Like I said. Pretty anal ;)

  • shhhay

    yeah they could have just put the TTC logo, and written ‘Queen’s Park’ small underneath,

    the entrance is fine, the writing seems out of place/ugly

  • http://profiles.google.com/a.delbuono AngelA Del Buono
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=590175336 Gregory Hughes

    yeah, wouldnt out of towners think that “Queens Park” is kind of lame, just a white box, “i had heard so many good things about it in the brochures” put a TTC symbol on it wienies

  • Anonymous

    Type looks like crap on a stick.

    Can I assume there’s a green roof?

    Because there had better be a goddamn green roof.

  • Marcg

    It’s great. It fits in well with the theme of Toronto: cutting corners.

  • http://joeclark.org/weblogs/ Joe Clark

    There’s already an accessible entrance across the street, and, at least on paper, fake Helvetica is the TTC “standard” for exterior signage.

    To my surprise, not only is there an apostrophe (in some dispute in the name of this subway station) it isn’t a fake-ass neutral apostrophe.

  • local_fellow

    I like it. Too bad they didn’t use the TTC’s font, but I like the slick glassy exterior; it’ll match up nicely with MaRS when it’s completed. Better than the green-backed armadillo-shaped entrance across the street.

  • Critic

    looks like shit.

    • Thaivic1962

      looks like you have no taste!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/QHJH5P2FR7SDJRP7IBKGPAPTII Mike L

    its called Re-branding folks.. re-branding. Out with the old, in with the new.

    • http://www.new-media.ca Apriori

      Re-branding to what? White wall with Helvetica on it? That’s as un-original and unbranded you can get.

      • Anonymous

        Works for Apple

    • Anonymous

      *facepalm*

    • Eric S. Smith

      This comment sounds best read in the voice of Gregor Ehrlich.

  • Anonymous

    Holy whiny comments…

  • 2FUTURE

    Unfortunately it is done in Helvetica and unfortunately the TTC have now way of providing a consistent brand of their transit other than their TTC logo.

    Anal retentive yes, to those people who do no understand type. But then again who care of what rims some other car has on the road, to each their own identifications they spot.

  • jojo

    I like it. Improvement over every other over-designed entrance they are doing these days.

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