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Actually, nothing was demolished or transformed for 1 St Thomas. That was a surface parking lot for awhile before the tower got built.
There's no connection between 1 St. Thomas and the Distillery when it comes to repurposing old buildings and enhancing them with contemporary additions, yet syn keeps picking at the scab of the late and unlamented Rack House 'M' ( he's a fan of such elderly, second-rate architecture it seems ... ) and trying to make such links.
I'd say it would have made a unique podium for Clear Spirit with some windows punched into it.
Defending the architectural merits of a featureless rectangle? Really, jje1000? It seems like anything built 100+ years ago is considered a "heritage structure" these days. Nostalgia shouldn't determine the fate of a structure. While I agree that architecturally interesting heritage structures need to be preserved, much of what is classified as "heritage" by the city is garbage and needs to be removed to make way for future development.
By that logic, featureless pyramids are just as dispensable...
Actually, nothing was demolished or transformed for 1 St Thomas. That was a surface parking lot for awhile before the tower got built.
There's no connection between 1 St. Thomas and the Distillery when it comes to repurposing old buildings and enhancing them with contemporary additions,
yet syn keeps picking at the scab of the late and unlamented Rack House 'M' ( he's a fan of such elderly, second-rate architecture it seems ... ) and trying to make such links.
It was grossly out of scale with the adjacent - and much more comely - Victorian-era industrial buildings. The good news is that the replacement structure, which will function as a podium, will have windows and be of a scale to match those earlier treasures.
Defending the architectural merits of a featureless rectangle? Really, jje1000? It seems like anything built 100+ years ago is considered a "heritage structure" these days. Nostalgia shouldn't determine the fate of a structure. While I agree that architecturally interesting heritage structures need to be preserved, much of what is classified as "heritage" by the city is garbage and needs to be removed to make way for future development.
That's the problem. They didn't repurpose Rackhouse M, they tore it down.
No, I simply have a respect for history and would've preferred a creative solution which retained a building that was part of the Distillery since the 1920s
Rackhouse M was out of scale but 40 storey condos aren't??
Rackhouse M may not have been pretty, but it was a large and very prominent component of the district and has been for nearly a century. A great design would've incorporated this structure.