Miscreant
Senior Member
You're right, it is. And one positive there is that hopefully it'll help things turn around in this rather sad area. It'd be great to see.
I think its looking good. It is blue like so many things lately but it's a darker richer blue than most. It's starting to peek out everywhere, from many parts of ryerson, dundas square, what you walk south through allan garderns the perspective already makes it look as tall as FCP. It's a nice addition in my opinion.
This thing is pretty bleak. : /
On The contrary! think it looks great. the dark brick precast cladding and offset balcony glazing help to both ground the podium while lightening its load. And as far as window wall cladding goes, I dont mind whats going on above. Its well executed without a mishmash of misaligned mullions.
Yeah, I see what you're saying. To my mind it's more just the context of the building--the neighborhood. Sometimes I zone out and realize: wow, parts of this city are incredibly ugly. Hopefully this building signals a change.
Is there any city in North America that doesn't have ugly parts? It just goes along with being a big city. I think you can find uglier streets than this in north Toronto's strip mall hell.
Yep, I don't deny that. North Toronto is another beast altogether. And sure, every city has its crappy parts. But as ksun alluded to directly above, I do believe for whatever it's worth that 'net' Toronto has a public realm problem, compared to other cities.
This is getting off topic, so I won't take things too far--and shabby public realm comments abound on this forum. But still. Sometimes you look up and realize that we have a long, long way to go in this city. I feel embarrassed in front of tourists often. It's sad.