Neilas' website now says that OpArt will be "stylish rental apartments", and that construction starts in the Fall of 2015. It seems it did. Good to have these going forward finally. Despite the suburban surface parking, here's hoping they actually look like the rendering.
The facades are interesting with the pattern of irregular geometric cladding panels. Since we no longer build true glass boxes, it's important to develop new styles of cladding that don't amount to merely trading glass for ugly spandrel panels. Many towers covered with spandrel panels aren't attractive buildings at all.
Town of Oakville closed Shepherd road this week to do an engineering review of the shoring at this pit. Traffic and bus route is diverting around it. Expected to last until March 2020.
Sounds like after 5(?) years of being there, it may not be structurally sound.
