[Vacs]

The darker green is more visually weighted and makes the light-colored brick "pop". The right end solution (bottom picture) is the best.

There will be not be any green when it's done

 

[archited]

Well dark Grey or Black will work too.

 

[IanO]

Losing the green will make this building go from character to run of the mill

 

[Vacs]

Losing the green will make this building go ree from character to run of the mill

Disagree. It will look sharp and there is a method to the madness.

Hold on for the ride

 

[roe_]

Disagree. It will look sharp and there is a method to the madness.

Hold on for the ride

Edmonton has a history of renovating based on the trend-du-jour, often with poor results. Just take the Milner library, which was a modernist gem that could have had a sympathetic redesign to accentuate the existing style. Instead we got a glorified shed with a sterile, if modernized, interior.

 

[bodsbods9090]

Disagree. It will look sharp and there is a method to the madness.

Hold on for the ride

Oh Vacs. You're a tease like @IanO is at times.

 

[_urbanite]

Crews on site today. Probably setting up to replace the rest of the windows, *edit* they have one of those window washing/replacing platforms rigged up in front

 

[David A]

Edmonton has a history of renovating based on the trend-du-jour, often with poor results. Just take the Milner library, which was a modernist gem that could have had a sympathetic redesign to accentuate the existing style. Instead we got a glorified shed with a sterile, if modernized, interior.

There is often nothing more painful to look at than a building from a different era that has been modified to try make it look new. It usually doesn't fool anyone and ends up looking like some hideous amalgamation of different design.

I think unlike places that have more buildings from different eras, we sometimes tend to go towards mono culture, which can be boring and eventually design fashion changes and they all look dated anyways. Yes, fix up and maintain the older buildings as needed, but keep the character.

 

[Airboy]

the best not mess with that wall sculpture.

 

[archited]

One architectural element that could help would be some kind of Cornice/Roof-top Cap -- it is a bit weak at the upper extreme.

 

[CplKlinger]

I'm confused by this; is the 2nd tower going to move forward at some point? Is that what the renderings are for? I thought we'd see a DP at some point, but this thread has been just about windows for the past few months and it's so anticlimactic lol

 

[bodsbods9090]

I'm confused by this; is the 2nd tower going to move forward at some point? Is that what the renderings are for? I thought we'd see a DP at some point, but this thread has been just about windows for the past few months and it's so anticlimactic lol

@Vacs said to hold on for the ride soooo...hold on for the ride!

 

[CplKlinger]

@Vacs said to hold on for the ride soooo...hold on for the ride!

Great, I'll just enter "hold on for the ride" for everything when I make its database page lol

 

[Vacs]

Great, I'll just enter "hold on for the ride" for everything when I make its database page lol

2 separate projects same developer. Renovation & new tower.

Details on the new tower still being worked out with the city

 

[_urbanite]