[outoftheice]

Hard to tell from the photo but please tell me this isn't similar to the cheap cladding they used across the street for their project at the corner of 5th St with the Gelato shop in it?

 

[The Familia]

Good God, does every new project have to use the cheapest, shittiest material on the face of the earth? Tbis stuff won’t age well at all.

 

[Patrick.1980]

Hard to tell from the photo but please tell me this isn't similar to the cheap cladding they used across the street for their project at the corner of 5th St with the Gelato shop in it?

It looks like the same cheap material. Something that feels like an unfortunate trend

 

[IanBray]

Arlington always dissapoint in the end. They could have had a 10/10 building if they just bloody used the same cladding shown on the renderings. This cladding exists and was used on Mission Landing which elevates the design so much. Instead the used cheap vertical cladding garbage.

 

[whatchyyc]

I'm hoping that they at least use the aluminum panels on the west and north faces of the building

 

[BigWoofer]

I am so sick of this cheap, artificial-looking cladding. I know it's liked here, but the example from Mission Landing isn't my favourite either. It just feels flimsy and cheap. It's got to the point where I've really begun to appreciate exposed concrete on building exteriors. I used to strongly dislike Brutalism and 60s-70s concrete commercial/municipal buildings, but they're much more solid and aesthetically pleasing to me than the current cladding trends. My favourite is always red brick but I've long let that dream go.

 

[boreal96]

I am so sick of this cheap, artificial-looking cladding. I know it's liked here, but the example from Mission Landing isn't my favourite either. It just feels flimsy and cheap. It's got to the point where I've really begun to appreciate exposed concrete on building exteriors. I used to strongly dislike Brutalism and 60s-70s concrete commercial/municipal buildings, but they're much more solid and aesthetically pleasing to me than the current cladding trends. My favourite is always red brick but I've long let that dream go.

I'm sick of it as well. It's going to age so poorly.

 

[Gullfoss]

Took a similar shot today, some of the exterior cladding is up

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lmfao who designed this piece of poop?

 

[Mountain Man]

Cheap extruded longboard siding for the loss!

 

[Rusteez42]

Took a similar shot today, some of the exterior cladding is up

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I walked by this today and noticed that in the right light, it looks like that black cladding has some sort of sweet sugary stuff poured all over it. Is there usually a film on it that they remove once it's all installed?

 

[Tarsus]

There could be a film over top of the material. It might look better once the film is removed

 

[IanBray]

There could be a film over top of the material. It might look better once the film is removed

That is what is said every time a garbage material is installed instead of the higher quality material shown in the rendering lol.

 

[whatchyyc]

That is what is said every time a garbage material is installed instead of the higher quality material shown in the rendering lol.

Well, one exception I can think of is the hardie board Truman likes to use on their projects, it always goes in with the boards and trim unpainted and everyone is shocked until they paint it as usual

 

[Alex_YYC]