[androiduk]

The ground level and lobby are going to look really attractive when finished. And it's really close to the renders. Hopefully they'll get a good high traffic retailer to liven things up here a bit.

 

[Blovertis]

How strange to see alterations to an older building that actually wind up looking good.

 

[DavidCapizzano]

It'd be cool if they continued the black spandrel with rounded corners up to the top. Would make this pretty generic building feel super space age.

 

[skycandy]

 

[LUVIT!]

Looks great!

 

[condovo]

Nice but what do the curves have to do with the rest of the building?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Nice but what do the curves have to do with the rest of the building?

None, but this building has nothing to do with anything other than mediocre ultra-late PoMo. No one is going to regret anything done to it (and trying to match what was probably lead to nowhere but mediocrity).

AoD

 

[condovo]

None, but this building has nothing to do with anything other than mediocre ultra-late PoMo. No one is going to regret anything done to it (and trying to match what was probably lead to nowhere but mediocrity).

AoD

They could have designed an updated and attractive podium that wasn't entirely disconnected from the building above. Now it looks architecturally hodge-podge.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

They could have designed an updated and attractive podium that wasn't entirely disconnected from the building above. Now it looks architecturally hodge-podge.

Is that a bug or a feature? My sense is that in the drive for Bloor Street legitimacy (and lease rates), this attractive, updated podium wanted nothing to do with the building above.

AoD

 

[condovo]

Is that a bug or a feature? My sense is that in the drive for Bloor Street legitimacy (and lease rates), this attractive, updated podium wanted nothing to do with the building above.

AoD

WZMH could've achieved something without the curved corners. If this is just Phase I and the property owners plan to curve all the other corners in a future Phase II, then I guess it makes sense. Right now, though, it's a hodge-podge. It's a bug.

 

[maestro]

It's a podium. I give the Wework space that may have prompted the refresh five or less years as reality sets in on this overhyped start up.

 

[jje1000]

Not bad, not great, just another commercial ground floor refresh that will be peeled off in ten years or so when trends change.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[zang]

Considering WeWork is one of the largest tenants here, this is an interesting read:

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[AJ80]

Sorry these photos are almost two weeks old. I imagine there may have been a change or two since. But here they are anyway.