10 Dundas East

I forgot my cellphone in an office of this building and had no access to the elevator nor I could contact someone who would give me access to the floor. I asked the security of this build to contact someone and they said that I needed to call someone (yeah, I probably have a hidden SIM card at my brain so that I can make calls using brain waves). Then, they contacted the head security of the building though the radio and they said that they don’t have authorization for that and I need to contact someone on that floor (maybe using black magic or something like that?). If they are not authorized to do that, please tell me who the hell have such authorization? God?

Not a terrible building but I can see how other Unilocalers find it a bit confusing. Only in Toronto would you find a multiplex, an all you can eat sushi place, a beer store and a university all in the same building, along with the obligatory Starbucks and Tim Horton’s.
Its a bit of a jungle here at peek times but the food court here is decent and dosent have the same volume as across the street at the Eaton Centre. The all you can eat sushi is good too

I dislike this place. The flow and the logistics is terrible and the crowd is just not where I want to be.
It does have its perks, with the Cineplex upstairs, and a decent food court, and a nice looking Milestones/​Jack Astors for a meal. They’ve finally gotten rid of «Woo» and replaced it with a Sushi place.
There are only two elevators which take forever, but lots of escalators, which go pretty fast for Toronto standards, but they are only single lane! This means you either have to wait or if you wanted to walk by, squeeze between all the people.

I’m going to be the contrarian and say I like this edifice. It’s primarily a movie theater but has some sit down restaurants, a Shopper’s Drug Mart, and a food court. I love the food court here. When the Eaton Centre food court is packed with people and dirty as hell, the Toronto Life Square’s food court is half empty and clean. There’s a Harvey’s and a Subway. No Manchu Wok. There’s a bizarre Korean BBQ stand that does not appear to serve anything resembling Korean food. I for one like to grab a couple street dogs and then eat them in the TLS’s food court.
Anyway, I appreciate it mostly for being a less busy counter point to the Eaton Centre.

I really don’t understand this place. For being located in such a busy area, I find it quite boring and lifeless.
Everyone has already discussed the confusing layout of the centre here. That’s really all there is to it. There is no real draw for me to come back.

Good god, why.
Seemingly designed more around carrying the maximum amount of advertising on the outside rather than be an effective place to shop and generally contribute to the economy. From the profoundly stupid layout (A U-​shaped Future Shop! Because you can!) to the drab-​yet-​blindingly-​bright exterior, to the massive pile of FREAKING TOO MANY ESCALATORS, SERIOUSLY PEOPLE I CAN’T TAKE ANY MORE OF THI–
*deep breaths… lots of deep breaths*
Okay, I’m good now.
What’s really sad is that it didn’t have to be this bad. It was under construction and development for so long that one would assume they’d be able to get their act together. Depressingly, this isn’t the case. Maybe some of the general sucktasticness of this facility is due to it being a dual-​use commercial /​academic facility for Ryerson University. I think history speaks loudly on this one: if you try to do one thing, you can do it well. If you try to do two disparate things at the same time, you, like the Internet-​enabled refrigerator, have a next day appointment with fail. The chief difference here is that at least the Internet-​enabled refrigerator effectively kept things cold.
For all its faults — the ugly exterior, the useless interior — at the end of the day it doesn’t contain much. A handful of restaurants, a useless movie theatre, an awkward electronics store. There might be a gym in the basement but I honestly don’t care. The only truly redeeming quality I can think of is that if you enter via the subway at least you don’t have to look at it.
Upshot: I was less annoyed by it when it was a construction site.