[Urban Shocker]

Okay, so FCP is getting a new look. What other building would you like to see re-clad?

 

[Aaron]

The ROM Crystal.

Muahaha...

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

The ROM Crystal.

Definitely The Crystal, that's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title.

The Bay bunker at Yonge & Bloor + opening up some areas below on Bloor E. to retail. While we're at Yonge & Bloor, 2 Bloor St. W.

The CN Tower could use concrete restoration in areas. It's looking pretty messed up when you get close to it.

The Hyatt on King West.

 

[old boy]

While we're talking about the ROM/Crystal, why not start by re-thinking the entrance on Bloor ? This bland and cheap opening to the museum misses the sense of occasion one experienced when entering through the magnificant Rotunda. Yesterday, when I visited the ROM, the Rotunda space was devoted for children's craftwork. The entire Crystal reno leaves me feeling nostalgic . Perhaps, lot of the budget for the Crystal reno went for complex engineering, and probably at the expense of quality finishing work and accommodating inner spaces. A later visit to the new AGO yesterday, underscored this feeling that the ROM addition could, and should have

 

[Register123]

I've always thought that the Bay Bloor wall would look great as a green wall project a la the ones in Paris or the new one at Toronto Brickworks.

http://green-stock-media.photoshelter.com/image/I00003i8BeFe2Sik

 

[Register123]

Here are some more, the designer is Patrick Blanc. Just beautiful.

http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/

 

[wyliepoon]

Until work actually starts on the re-cladding, SkyDome should be on the list.

Ryerson Library-Jorgenson Hall
Delta Chelsea (if it can't be demolished and built from scratch)

... and I might offend some preservationists here, but maybe even the back side of the City Hall towers.

 

[Dan416]

ROM would definitely not be on my recladding list.

 

[Urban Shocker]

1 King West. The idea of Speed Stick, as a visual conceit, is sound enough - a sleek sliver of a building with an extruded core - but while the bones are strong it fails in the execution. The extruded deodorant core works well enough, but the snaggle-toothed casing is a mess; the two elements don't work together. The inverse-V of the casing echoes the notch in Scotia Plaza, and there's a kinship to the Brookfield Place towers to the south in terms of colour and size, but the main problem's in the deodorant/casing mismatch.

 

[junctionist]

HBC at Yonge and Bloor would be an important project because of its uninspiring all concrete-clad podium at such a prominent intersection. The tower is bland too. Even if you like Brutalism, you may find that the concrete cladding seems generic. The recent makeover of Bloor makes the "bunker" stand out more with its subpar window-less design.

I can't say the same for the distinctive 2 Bloor West. It's among the more memorable towers in Toronto, with its rigid concrete 'ribs' and pronounced mechanical sections (nicely integrated into the architecture, of course), interspersed with an unusual grid of windows.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

... and I might offend some preservationists here, but maybe even the back side of the City Hall towers.

I'm curious about what troubles you with the back of the City Hall towers? When I toured the green roof last summer I took a really close look at the buidlings and they are in remarkably good shape.

 

[adma]

Re changing the back of the City Hall towers--shhh, don't tell Mayor Ford, he might get idears.

As for the ROM Crystal, it makes sense as *a* candidate, at least insofar as it's in the spirit of "fulfilling" the reported design intention, rather than obliterating it...

 

[CapitalSeven]

The Toronto Star Building, both parts.

 

[adma]

I might suggest a "precladding" solution, i.e. to reinstate the former aesthetic of a whole lot of post-WWII office and apartment buildings which suffered subsequent disfigurement/debasement through EIFS, smoked/mirrored glass, etc...

 

[whatever]

Any/all of the 80s/90s buildings that went with white anodized aluminium panels in their cladding (I'm thinking specifically the former Holiday Inn on King, the Madison Centre in North York, and The 250/One Dundas West at the Eaton Centre). It's not the architecture I take issue with but rather the execution. I find those panels look awful after a few years of exposure to the elements, and I'd like to see them replaced with white glazing which would hold up much better.