Redroom Studios
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well, I could take a guess and say perhaps 9 months from now... which would be June '11
I don't know about disgusting, but the brick colour is definitely too bland and grayish. A brighter/yellower choice would have looked a lot crisper, and contrasted better with the dark brown strips.
Hopefully this is partly due to mortar and dust being all over everything. A wash when it's all built could make an improvement.
No, that's the actual brick colour. It looks like a high school in Brampton. The Bohemian Embassy uses a similar colour for some of its façades. Bloody embarrassing for the main cultural strip of the largest city in Canada.
lol... yeah, because Queen Street certainly doesn't look old and rundown everywhere else.
Adam Vaughan's newsletter is talking about brick and glass for the building:
[...]
Because the proposed building would stretch from Queen to Richmond Streets, the proposal must respond to both the Queen Street West Heritage Conservation District (on its Queen frontage) and the King-Spadina Plan (on the Richmond side) in its appearance and structure.
This resulted in requirements for retail uses at grade on Queen, a certain proportion of brick and glass on its Queen façade, while the design of the Richmond frontage relates to the more industrial character of the King-Spadina area.