AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
No it wasn't - there was no steel for building during WWI. Also, the plan that it was part of wasn't developed until after the war.
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JasonParis
Moderator
The massing is good. Also, to overcome the akwardness of the site is to be commended. However, it barely resembles the much more striking rendering that was proposed and is loaded with cheap finishes everywhere. As some on here call it..."the skyscraper that Home Depot built." Harry's abysmal branding and signage for the project is the final insult.
AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
And an attractive old storefront was destroyed to build it - it was supposed to have been put into the glass atrium part, then not,then a facsimile was put up, and taken down, then it was supposed to be tacked onto another on La Stinsonetta's buildings, then not.
Well I suppose someone can buy it at the liquidation sale that's coming.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I wish all these facades could be shipped off site and stored in a warehouse somewhere for appropriate future use rather than being awkwardly incorporated in developments that don't suit them.
adma
Superstar
Whipping out my copy of William Dendy's Lost Toronto for reference, I can tell you that the Registry Building was started in 1914 and opened in 1917. And WWI didn't lead to absolute embargos of steel construction (the Quebec Bridge was finished in these years, remember). And the plan in question was the Federal Avenue plan of 1911, not the 1929 Cambrai Avenue plan.
AP, between blithely dismissing the demolished Bank of Toronto and blithely offering false history, I'd have to say you're one heck of a historically ignorant/historically contemptuous jerk.
ganjavih
Senior Member
Yeah! Good riddance!
egotrippin
Senior Member
Yeah! Good riddance!
I'd take this over the entire TD Centre.
Ah, well when you put it that way it doesn't sound as great. I never saw the original proposals for it, so I guess to me there was less relative disappointment. I've also never taken a very close look at it, I just liked its profile and appearance in the skyline.
smuncky
Senior Member
aren't left overs from the old TD building in Guildwood Park now?
adma
Superstar
Regrettable as the demolition may be, statements like this only fuel the APs of this world...
AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
People are allowed to prefer the humdrum and pedestrian over the brilliant and extraordinary.
And I stand corrected on the old Registry Office. Our archival photos here show something else there in during the war, but they must be mis-dated.
AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
Well, coming from a asshole poseur, I'll take that as a compliment.
Enough with the insults.
Andrew3D
Active Member
I'm still miffed how this one was lost. Joe Shuster, the co-creator of Superman who worked in this building actually drew it into his comic strips back in the 30's.
ganjavih
Senior Member
A tragic loss...
Click here to see how the rest of King West, Toronto's grandest street, was devastated:
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=6602&page=2
Click here to see how the rest of King West, Toronto's grandest street, was devastated:
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=6602&page=2