steveve
Senior Member
How the installed BMU looks retracted:
adHominem
Senior Member
So it's just always gonna stick out a little bit, like when you can't quite fit the ironing board back in the closet?
sikandar
Active Member
Assuming it stays like that, we may actually look back fondly on the days when it was just a tiny crane that stuck out awkwardly. At least the crane indicates a growing city to those seeing it for the first time. This BMU serves as a painful reminder of the cheapening that impacts even our "starchitecture" projects.
Logan
Active Member
Why are there so many panels missing on the north face? Looks terrible. This building will not age well.
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Superstar
I think that until the BMU is operational they cannot do any external maintenance or window washing so the large number of 'problems' date from Day 1.
Logan
Active Member
Good point. Lots of catch-up to do.
tstormers
Senior Member
If you look at a lot of buildings not just in Toronto the BMU's are visible. I agree that it is not optimal especially for a building that was designed with a nice sweeping curve to have it stick out, but it seems to happen on a lot of buildings.
I took so long to design and manufacture a BMU that would work for this unusually shaped building, I imagine that if they could have made it hide entirely when it's retracted, they would have.
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differential
Active Member
L-tower is a great addition to the skyline, not sure why the hate. The curving profile is very futuristic looking.
jozl
Active Member
Am I understanding this correctly, that jumbled mess perched at the apex is the retracted BMU? This is now finished? Seriously?
Allandale25
Senior Member
^ No, I don't think you are correct. The retracted BMU is the white thing in this picture. Looks like only a small portion of it can be seen and creates a break in the slopping glass, at least to me.
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...en-daniel-libeskind.495/page-470#post-1346424
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...en-daniel-libeskind.495/page-470#post-1346424
The derrick and the platform have to come down still of course, but it looks like you may be able to see the arm sticking out above the east end of the slot. We shall see later on. If so, at least it's not likely to be easily seen from most angles around the building.
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jozl
Active Member
Thanks Allandale25 and interchange42, that’s a relief!
ponyboy
Active Member
June 15 -- a graduation was being held at the Sony Centre. I think it was George Brown.
A sitting space along front street is the best part of the new public space, with some decent people watching opportunities. The plaza is sparse with no apparent plans for grow a tree canopy. Within the plaza, there is a small sitting space where people are sitting in the photo, but otherwise the plaza lacks anywhere else to sit as far as I can tell. I think it has exactly what they wanted -- no one who hasn't paid to see a show (undesirables) will have a reason to linger here.
Does anyone like the chrome statues?
A sitting space along front street is the best part of the new public space, with some decent people watching opportunities. The plaza is sparse with no apparent plans for grow a tree canopy. Within the plaza, there is a small sitting space where people are sitting in the photo, but otherwise the plaza lacks anywhere else to sit as far as I can tell. I think it has exactly what they wanted -- no one who hasn't paid to see a show (undesirables) will have a reason to linger here.
Does anyone like the chrome statues?
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Christopher Brown
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Seems odd, unexplained, why this project first proclaimed 13 years ago this month as a world class, leading edge, transformative design, one that would reshape downtown, why no one would or could have included in its design from the outset a simple, effective ways and means to clean the windows. I mean, it is all glass. Plus, maybe I'm thick but I can't figure how the lower northern face of the tower will ever have its windows cleaned unless this long overdue appendage can cling to that non vertical surface like those weird fish that suck scum off glass in a fish tank. That I've got to see.