^^Thanks steveve. If you liked that, maybe you'll like this even more. Interior porn.

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i'm blown away yet again ^^^
sucks how the ritz is gonna look more green when the entire building interiors are painted. you can see the difference in colour in the upper portion compared to the lower.
and that yellow unit REALLY stands out.
Android, is it visible from the human eye? or is it only noticeable close-up?
 
androiduk said:
^ The whole reason I took the pic is because that yellow suite caught me eye. You can see it for miles around. Thank God for drapes.
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ouch! what a blow to a great building... though we can't say we weren't expecting this..
I guess trump is advantageous here in terms of blinds/sheers/interiors killing a buildings clean look. the super-reflective, non-transparent spandrel on trump doesn't look like it'll let people on the outside see whats on the inside. can someone confirm this?
 
You guys are drama queens. There's going to be much more colour than that eventually. Once, you know, more than just that one room are painted.
 
Plus, there's no yellow up there, it's mustard, and per the other reference to beige, that place is cappuccino.

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Not to be a total downer, but I went for a $15 glass of wine at the Ritz last week, just to say I could. And I have to tell you - it's an enormous disappointment. There's absolutely no grandeur to any of the interior spaces on the first floor, at least. There's not a single "wow" moment, or even a "huh" moment. It's like trying to get excited about a condo lobby. (Also, the $15 glas of wine got a little platter-thinger of none-too-fresh popcorn and wasabi peas from the slightly diffident service.) Compare the Ritz lobby to, for instance, the Sheraton lobby - now *there*'s a space that makes you want to pretend like you've got a room there. But the Ritz lobby only made me wonder how small, plain and unambitious their rooms must be. May we have better luck with our next five-star hotel.
 
I can't say I like either - the Sheraton went for some sort of faux Regency look when they renovated the west end of their lobby a few years ago that just added to the mis-matched effect ( and I miss the Long Bar on the second floor terribly - anyone else remember it ? ) compared to the rest of the space. Them huge chrome barriers that were installed after someone plunged to their death from the escalators don't tie in with anything else in the design either. Maybe a slide aka Corus would enliven the space though?
 
I'm also hesitant about putting Sheraton on a pedestal--and other than the open court/waterfall/grotto thingy, it was always a bit lobby-area mundane, whether compared to Royal York/King Eddie predecessors or Portmanesque contemporaries. Unfairly or not, it belongs to the "if you've seen one concrete slab hotel, you've seen them all" era. (And re the renos US decries: compare and contrast to those KPMB did to the inside of its near-neighbour 70s slab, the Hilton.)
 
adma said:
I'm also hesitant about putting Sheraton on a pedestal--and other than the open court/waterfall/grotto thingy, it was always a bit lobby-area mundane,
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And you can't even see the grotto thingy anymore, really - they've frosted the windows overlooking that area, for some inexplicable reason.
 
I think that's because the grotto is being renovated to current standards. I'm not sure if it has to do with the water use or conversion, but I saw the sign that it would be restored to its former glory after the reno.
 
Last summer I discovered persimmons growing on the upper level of the grotto thingy.

With the Sheraton, I think it'd be great if they'd open it up to the street all along Queen and have more access points to the lobby/retail space. The east-west inner pedestrian route ( which worked better when the movie theatre was there ) could thus be matched with a north-south one through to Richmond, and better PATH access.
 
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