DavidCapizzano
Senior Member
Didn't see anything on here about this. Small project on Elm Street, what used to be Oro Restaurant is getting a renovation. Currently under scaffolding but a small brick sample is visible.
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AlbertC
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An older pic from December 2019. Looks like they're completing some extensive interior and exterior renovations, that I'd reckon would eventually return towards being a restaurant space in the future.
Shame that they didn't look into further intensifying the site, would've been fine to go up to at least 5-6 storeys here.
Shame that they didn't look into further intensifying the site, would've been fine to go up to at least 5-6 storeys here.
AlbertC
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They're building an additional floor onto this:
Oct 17, 2020
Oct 17, 2020
AlbertC
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Nov 21, 2020
deerparker
Active Member
LUVIT!
Senior Member
I’m not sure if I like this or hate this.
treocrite
New Member
So... did they really just rip out the old facade? Did they actually replace it with this low-effort Minecraft house?
DavidCapizzano
Senior Member
For what it’s worth those bricks are from Denmark and they are $$$$$
Northern Light
Superstar
Good design is often ruined by a cheap material palate.
But excellent materials are wasted when deployed in service of a poor design, or one that is inappropriate to its its context.
This is going to stick out like a sore thumb on Elm.
How unfortunate.
AlbertC
Superstar
The quality of the bricks definitely shows, but overall this is such a bizarre reno and addition. It's overly opaque IMO, which is unfortunate because if it had some more conventional window arrangements, this would been quite decent.
ProjectEnd
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The Elm-facing side is excellent. The EIFS at the back is unfortunate at best.
Anyone know who the architect is?
Anyone know who the architect is?
Northern Light
Superstar
Really? It's essentially a large, plain, wall.
No matter what material you put on that, there isn't much design.
Outside of street-level, the single, narrow, asymmetrically placed window leaves a large chunk of the space feeling dead.
The absence of porosity, along w/those design features noted above means it also doesn't play well with its neighbours at all.
The EIFS is dreck, but at least its less conspicuous than the Elm-facing side.
ProjectEnd
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If you don't like it, there's not much I can say, but there's plenty of work by Chipperfield, Holl, SANAA, Ando, Hariri, etc. that could be described as 'large' and 'plain' (not saying this is at that level, but it's well balanced and the bricks are gorgeous). I really like it and I'm cautiously excited to see what happens at grade.
Northern Light
Superstar
I agree with the quality of the brick. That's excellent.
The rest I'm less high on.
condovo
Senior Member
Sticking out like a sore thumb isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially on Elm St which has been so neglected and bastardized over the years. Some key elements are still unfinished here, which could make or break this. I'm holding out for the final result.