kotsy said:
Wasn't the only issues with the building the podium/how it met the street?
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That was my understanding initially too but I guess that was just the tip of the iceberg. Or I suppose...the root of the problem.
 
bmiller said:
It's become a rather ugly building. Nothing to get excited about here, and no one should be the least bit surprised.
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Yeah it's so disappointing to see such a sleek slender skyscraper get dissected to shite :(

Can Cresford really brag the the same about the new beast??

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well technically "storeys" are equivalent to legal levels, which can not be skipped ... count of "floors" can however
 
I don't know how this really works, but it's almost as if the developer purposefully made the tower way too wide in response to the city cutting the height - to give themselves a bargaining chip.

Developer - "Oh, you think this will cast to large a shadow? Ok, let us make it taller and well slim it down"
 
That is the reason they originally proposed it so tall. With the original 2 tower design by Quadrangle and Kingsett Capital, the city said that this was too small of a site for two independent towers. So Cresford combined it into one mega-tall building. The city likely then said it was too tall, so now they have chopped it down with a large floorplate instead.
 
Do we know if KPF is involved in this anymore? The only saving grace to the massing change would be to at least keep their quality in the design.
 
I wish the redesign wasn't so fin-like.... it's as if someone cut the Ryugong Hotel into thirds, and transported one to Toronto o_O
 
Contra said:
Do we know if KPF is involved in this anymore? The only saving grace to the massing change would be to at least keep their quality in the design.
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they probably are cause the new design resembles some of their work in Asia and 2 of the Hudson towers.
 
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