Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!! What a freakin' ordeal. Thanks Yossi. I needed to set the album to public, but then ignore any of the Picasa or address bar locations of the pic, and instead...right click on the pic, highlight "save image location", then use the "Insert Image" button in the forum.
Some more renders.
Bliss Tower, Townhomes in foreground, Lofts in back, Liberty Towers on right, looking Southeast.
Similar render to above post but with the correct southern slope, looking Northeast.
All dramatic and dark (I hope they use the same dark grey as GLAS, and I kinda like the blue too - let's hope it doesn't morph into something godawful).
As for it looking like 2003, well it was designed in 2005, so that's not that far off. Could definitely be better though, I'd agree, but definitely a step up from the Monarch abomination.
From yesterday's Toronto Star:
One sunny, early spring afternoon, Lamb guides the Rolls through the squeaky-clean, just-add-water neighbourhood that has popped up in recent years in the former industrial zone in Liberty Village. He's selling a unit he owns in the Irwin Toy factory building, which he sold out for Lanterra Developments ("I buy about 25 apartments a year," he says).
He strides the wide hallways, noting small annoyances. "This ugly shit," he says, kicking the glue-on plastic baseboards. "Wood would have cost another $20,000 for the whole building. That's what happens when a developer runs out of money."
He stops to inspect a door, knocking the slim metal frame with a knuckle. "Same thing here. Plan your budget, and do it right." Back in the Rolls, Lamb rounds the corner into a strip-mall array of shops. "This is all garbage," he growls. "You feel like you're in Thornhill." Ahead, two boxy condo towers loom dozens of stories over squat townhomes.
"They should be hanged for building that," he fumes.
One of the few things I agree with Brad Lamb on.