[someMidTowner]

This picture looks so depressingly GREY!

You're right. I should have gussied it up with some pink comic sans.

 

[ponyboy]

With all of the new residential and office density in the entertainment district, we need a public square located somewhere between Grange Park and Clarence Square Park. Any land left for this?

 

[steveve]

The rooftops for many of the buildings in the Entertainment District aren't that terrible, but because they're all clustered together there's a lot of sameness:

 

[Mongo]

The rooftops for many of the buildings in the Entertainment District aren't that terrible, but because they're all clustered together there's a lot of sameness:

And a lot of people predicted this result when the City imposed its 157m "tabletop" skyline policy for this area.

 

[Rascacielo]

And a lot of people predicted this result when the City imposed its 157m "tabletop" skyline policy for this area.

The Toronto mesa, it's blue/green instead of red/orange

 

[drum118]

Nov 3
Tower crane about to be remove

 

[Miscreant]

Gittin'er'done.

 

[Torontovibe]

Not my favorite condo!

 

[s-k-mo]

Please elaborate...

Not my favorite condo!

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[Solaris]

that black paneling on the podium better not be the 'art'

 

[junctionist]

that black paneling on the podium better not be the 'art'

The blank wall of black panels looks brutal. In the rendering, there are panels of different shades and what are either lighted panels or narrow windows. It wasn't promising, but it's better than what's there at the moment.

 

[LUVIT!]

That black siding looks terrible so far.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Their site specific by-law contains the following:

"(i) provide and maintain a public art contribution approved by the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division which is focused on the enhancement of the facades of the above-grade parking on terms to be set out in the Section 37 Agreement and that has a minimum value of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00 CAN) with such amount to be indexed upwardly in accordance with the Statistics Canada Non-Residential Building Construction Price Index for Toronto, calculated from the date of the Section 37 Agreement to the date of issuance of the first above-grade building permit, but not including a conditional above grade building permit issued by the Chief Building Official, for all or any part of the proposed building on the lot;"

They did amend the S. 37 but not the clause concerning the public art.

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2015.TE12.108

All that said, those black panels do look disturbingly 'final'...

 

[modernizt]

Absolutely ridiculous. Instead of designing a facade that is at least aesthetically passable, we wrangle out some arrangement where what is essentially a billboard will be created in order to house a piece of public art.

Maybe just design and build elevations that don't look like crap in the first place?