Woah! You're kidding me! I was lying awake last night thinking, "Toronto has way to much innovative design. We do do things differently every time. Why don't we have any buildings that actually look like cheap condos rather than cheap condos dressed in a (supposedly) luxury veneer!" And hey presto, these things appear. These condos will be another boring, tasteless, falsified, duplicitous, insipid, bland, ignominious pockmark on the southern Ontario landscape.
I could not be more disappointed with the lack of architectural essence here. They even fail in their "modernist-inspired" aesthetics and instead remind me not of Mies' playful rationality, but of the uncomfortable monotony of Peter Eisenman's "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in Berlin (2005). The conundrum however, is that Eisenman's breathtaking work is intended to make the 'user' (If I dare call him/her that...) uncomfortable and force them to contemplate the events in question. NXT only forces the 'user' to contemplate why he or she purchased a unit there.
Perhaps I should count my blessings, at least theres no tacky roof element glued on top.