Westbro
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They feel massive when you drive down Carling, when you see from the side it is actually reasonably slender. The south side of the road will need to be very broken up to prevent a canyon effect when it develops in 25-50 years.
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Agreed, I don't like the change in colour. Have one material for the podium and another for the tower. At least the materials/colours aren't randomly placed like some other projects.
It is also quite chunky, but the twin tower design, along with some taller, slimmer projects on the horizon this one might give some decent varierty to the overall tapestry of what will be the Carling built environment/skyline.
The precast panels have a pretty clean look with flush windows. One is topping out, the other has two floors to go.
Har13
New Member
This won’t cut it. Ew.
Westbro
Active Member
This was always an ugly building. It's looking about as nice as that design could possible look.
At least it's different. A different kind of meh.
CloudsintheSky
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Honestly, it could have been much worse and brings much needed housing to the area.
As someone else mentioned, there will be so many other towers going up in that area in the coming years, it could be a good contract to those.
As someone else mentioned, there will be so many other towers going up in that area in the coming years, it could be a good contract to those.
btap
Active Member
Having passed by this in person yesterday, the side fronting Carling seems fine, but the side looking out over the Shell station with three kinds of brick is awful. The random charcoal section looks especially out of place. Hopefully it's eventually covered up by something next door.
Westbro
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Pretty sure the tower will match the shell side brick.
Not saying that is a good thing.
Not saying that is a good thing.
For a moment, I thought the gas station was in the void under the building. Overall, quite a bland set of towers. Amazing how similar it looks to the Claridge project down the road, to the left of the first image, almost like it's secretly also Claridge.
Dzingle Bells
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Would have been a cool mix of use but I'm guessing there is something about mixing residential and a gas station. I feel like I have experienced one in my life, I will try to remember where it was.
We will have to start thinking of creative ways to incorporate urban gas stations (or electric charging stations) into our built environment - they aren't going anywhere.
For sure, having a gas station under a residential buildings seems like a major red flag. If they don't allow the gas meters to be inset, I doubt they would ever allow gas stations. I know I've seen it somewhere on the internet, somewhere that's not Canada, but I can't find it now. I did find this:
Westbro
Active Member
As soon as they started the massing I called that this was going to be among the ugliest. They tried to lipstick a pig instead of just embracing that it is intended to be a cheap building.
Pwat_
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I found this gas station on a trip to Amsterdam. I don't think its the best urban fabric but it shows they can definetly get pretty condensed at least.