[Hipster Duck]

Well, if I have to say something positive, I like the fact that the ground floor is so tall and bright.

Notice that the building would look considerably better if they would have left a flat roof.

 

[urbandreamer]

23 June 2012: Garbage:

 

[junctionist]

I like the intricate Art Nouveau-style railings, but the glass behind the railings detracts from the look. Perhaps the frieze in the centre is nice but it's hard to tell in that photo, and I get the feeling that it's manufactured as opposed to sculpted. The building is not bad, but it's not praiseworthy either with its confusion of contemporary style and odd historicist details

 

[pw20]

Pro's:
Continues streetwalll.
Provides additional retail space to rejuvinating retail strip
Uses non offensive red breck instead of pre-cast

Garbage is that weird pre-cast Paris-lite building at the corner of Adelaide and Jarvis.... With the exception of the bad roofline - I'd say this is an overwhelmingly positive addition to the street.

 

[AlbertC]

Soma Tiger Tattoo will occupy the ground floor retail unit.

 

[nrb]

Lets be honest folks, this is an awful development.

 

[christiesplits]

Good Lord. Even worse in person.

 

[junctionist]

Soma Tiger Tattoo will occupy the ground floor retail unit.

There's something about a tattoo place in a clean, conservative new build like this one that simply reminds us that tattoos have gone mainstream.

 

[kicked it in the sun]

yikes! what a dog!

 

[Conrad Black]

Actually not so bad. Good filler.

 

[SP!RE]

Actually not so bad. Good filler.

"Not so bad"... elaborate. Not so bad in which way?

Architecturally, it's a dog's breakfast and by looking at it, there is no read on what the designer was seeking to do here other than slap a bunch of catalogue parts onto a facade without any guiding mechanism. It makes no visual sense.