ProjectEnd
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The plethora of grey spandrel is worrying...
- Thread starter AlbertC
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Earlier today:
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WislaHD
Superstar
Yup! She's starting to rise.
cd concept
Senior Member
Yeah it took a while get this point !
someMidTowner
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rising fast:
Benito
Senior Member
Today.
kris
Senior Member
From a few days ago
Yegger
Active Member
not looking very promising. Hoping the balcony treatment (looked to me like perforated metal screens) redeems it.
DavidCapizzano
Senior Member
Balconies have been installed along Yonge. They are white, maybe precast and unlike anything I have seen elsewhere in the city. Will try to go back this week during the day.
WillTo
Senior Member
Balcony railings going up
isaidso
Senior Member
The railings are the most attractive feature of this building by a long shot.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
If that is replicated all the way up this could very well end up being a very nice looking tower.
It's not hard to see that the railings are replicated the whole way up the tower: click the link to the database file for the renderings.
Some seem to think they always detract from the architecture, but as they are integral to unit sales for most purchasers, they are integral to most residential building plans, and as the building's interface with the world beyond it, they are the architecture. As we build on ever tighter sites with buildings that are maxed out within massing volumes determined by the planning department, balconies are going to continue to determine the look of most residential buildings…
so it's always great to see designs that treat that with serious thought, where they put their money where their figurative mouth is. Glad to see an instance of that here!
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jje1000
Senior Member
I wonder if the next go-to for increasingly small sites is to completely forgo balconies all together (maybe substituting Juliette balconies), like at One Yorkville.
One Yorkville has inset balconies. There are juliettes out there though.
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