DTowner
Active Member
Oh, totally. I'm adding this to my 'snap it while you can' list.
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- Thread starter Edward Skira
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Oh, totally. I'm adding this to my 'snap it while you can' list.
HHC
Active Member
Yup, better hurry and get a "before" shot for the Then and Now topic.
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Morgan Edge
New Member
Maybe the reason the houses have been stripped of their detailing for this project is because it is too difficult/time consuming to recreate them in sketch-up... easier to, ya know, just get rid of all that old crap.
Silence&Motion
Senior Member
I was just about to say that. Maybe that's just a lazy job on the rendering. If the facades are going to be maintained in their entirety, then I'd take facadism over demolition. We should preserve Victorian streetscapes whenever possible. There's still plenty of room in Toronto for architects to indulge their fetish for stark glass-meets-pavement streetscapes.
Also, I think a 9 storey tower is fine in this location. To insist that every inch of downtown needs to be 30+ would be an incredible burden on the real estate market, not to mention our vitamin D levels.
Chuck
Senior Member
Keep them in tact. The varying architecture along Charles makes it a very interesting street that works well. Although I generally think that especially at Yonge and Bloor to keep ALL low rises would be standing in the way of growth, these ones have a place since they are the last ones.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
Looking at this drek rendering is unbearable, it's horrific. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
We've lost well over a dozen Victorians along Charles Street (even though this isn't Charles Street) between Jarvis & Avenue Road in the past four or five years. If memory serves only two remain along that stretch now. When does this madness stop?
We've lost well over a dozen Victorians along Charles Street (even though this isn't Charles Street) between Jarvis & Avenue Road in the past four or five years. If memory serves only two remain along that stretch now. When does this madness stop?
NIL OMNI
Active Member
After looking at this render, I think I threw up a little bit in my mouth.