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flonicky
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PL1
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From this afternoon
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rdaner
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Taken 11 May. This stretch of Coxwell is booming! The art galleries are popping up. 
christiesplits
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Today.
flonicky
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christiesplits
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Today.
flonicky
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PL1
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Wow, finally a lot of change (for the good!)
HousingNowTO
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SEPT 10th
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YongeBloor
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EOY Update:
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Its always a bad sign for a development's aesthetics when even @flonicky 's fine photography can't rescue them.
This is a good development in terms of what's its accomplishing for people; but there is no reason (no, not money either) that it has to look like an eyesore. For the same budget at play here, much better could have been achieved.
That first floor bares no aesthetic relationship to floors above. The choice to change the facade, at any point, on such a short building is questionable, but if one were to do so, you break at the scale-point for the street. (ie. above the 2nd floor).
The seemingly random 'wood' panels don't add value in that configuration. If you wanted to use the wood to bring warmth, run it in a straight row over the entrance to building all the way up.
Eeesh.
This is a good development in terms of what's its accomplishing for people; but there is no reason (no, not money either) that it has to look like an eyesore. For the same budget at play here, much better could have been achieved.
That first floor bares no aesthetic relationship to floors above. The choice to change the facade, at any point, on such a short building is questionable, but if one were to do so, you break at the scale-point for the street. (ie. above the 2nd floor).
The seemingly random 'wood' panels don't add value in that configuration. If you wanted to use the wood to bring warmth, run it in a straight row over the entrance to building all the way up.
Eeesh.