I suspect that effect might be a bit ruined once the building is occupied and there's light coming from the units, but yeah it does look cool at night right now.
These are starting to look pretty striking. Part of that is just how mediocre the 2 neighbouring towers to the East of it are, but yeah I agree they're turning out decent.
Older is always better when it comes to architecture right? I present to you the 1850-1904 rendition of the North Market:
Jokes aside, the new building is turning out well, and I already much prefer it to any of the previous buildings that have stood on the site.
The benefit is that it prevents drivers from using a school zone on The Esplanade as a shortcut to bypass the lights and traffic along Front Street. This was a big problem before.
You should venture North on Sherbourne, another "notoriously sketchy" street. It has multi-million dollar mansions on it North of Bloor. People don't buy street names, they buy locations, and streets change from block to block.
I wish they'd put street level retail along the Princess Street as well. A wall of glass is better than a wall of back painted glass.
On the plus side it does blend with the streetscape along the esplanade quite well.
Pleasantly surprised with how nice the patterned glass looks in person. It ties in nicely with the red and yellow brick in the neighbouring buildings. Not sure it comes across as good in pictures tho. Looks like high quality glass is being used for the tower too. Quite the contrast to the...
The white repaint actually bothers me more than covering the brickwork in panels. It just looks wrong. Should have left it concrete, or at least paint it grey and not stark white. I kept hoping it was just a primer coat and they'd put the real colour on soon.
What's gross about the 1980's buildings along Front or Esplanade? At least they're sized appropriately for the neighbourhood and clad in bricks instead of the cheap back painted glass used here.