[ICONIC]

All angles look disgustingly bad to me!

Your great photo taking skills cant make this disaster look good, no matter the angle or time of day.

I may be missing something but what makes this building looks bad, I think it looks fine

 

[Edwarander]

Sept. 7 2019.

 

[Amare]

I may be missing something but what makes this building looks bad, I think it looks fine

Welcome to UT, it's always good to see a new member.

I'm going to use some of @ProjectEnd's photos below to describe why this build is truly atrocious:

It all comes down to the quality of materials used and colour used for the cladding. The 2 colour tones of window wall cladding on the tower portion don't complement each other at all and looks outright cheap. Then add to the fact that the podium design is an afterthought with the same 2 colour tone design mess, and what we have here in an uninpired design mess.

Liberty Village has a lot of atrocious builds, and this is just another one. Just look at the buildings immediately to the east of this and compare it to this, the quality here is clearly lacking.

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[Lachlan Holmes]

Just one photo of this project peeking out, from a distance at Manitoba Drive and Nova Scotia Avenue:

 

[ICONIC]

Welcome to UT, it's always good to see a new member.

I'm going to use some of @ProjectEnd's photos below to describe why this build is truly atrocious:

It all comes down to the quality of materials used and colour used for the cladding. The 2 colour tones of window wall cladding on the tower portion don't complement each other at all and looks outright cheap. Then add to the fact that the podium design is an afterthought with the same 2 colour tone design mess, and what we have here in an uninpired design mess.

Liberty Village has a lot of atrocious builds, and this is just another one. Just look at the buildings immediately to the east of this and compare it to this, the quality here is clearly lacking.

Thanks for the explanation. I can see that the colours do clash, and I guess there could have been more imagination for a building that's at a pretty popular intersection in that area. Excited for 80 Lynn Williams though in terms of looks

 

[AHK]

November 21: The tower crane at 45 Strachan is coming down sometime soon - the derrick for its removal has now been set up.

 

[AHK]

November 25 - 45 Strachan crane coming down today. @interchange42 @Paclo

 

[AHK]

November 28:

 

[mburrrrr]

Saturday Nov 30 from the Gardiner.

 

[AHK]

December 3 - Taking down the crane at 45 Strachan has stalled. Started on November 25, continued on November 26, and then stopped. Suspect a problem with the derrick, something either broke or buckled when starting to lift down the main boom, and it has been perched on the roof ever since. Status this morning:

 

[DavidCapizzano]

Have they started any masonry work on the podium?

 

[AHK]

December 10 - removal of the tower crane, which started on November 225th and then stalled, has resumed. The tower crane main boom, which had been stuck on top of the 45 Strachan roof came down on Friday. Nothing on the weekend or Monday, but today the crew was back in action.

From earlier:

From Today:

 

[AHK]

December 11 - Still not finished taking the crane down. I know the L Tower crane stayed up forever, but once the take down of a crane starts it usually goes pretty quickly. One day, at the most two. This one is taking forever. No idea what the issue may be.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...maybe this one is a bit of a sticky wicket.

 

[AHK]

December 19 - Takedown of the 45 Strachan Tower Crane was finally complete on Monday. A pony derrick has now been set up to take down the derrick used to remove the tower crane. Once the derrick has been removed, the pony derrick is to be disassembled and removed in via the construction hoist.

Current status as of December 19: