sparky212
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What a beautiful building. This is the perfect example of how execution and details matter
wow. I cannot - even squinting - see any beauty in this building. It is a fat, squat, ugly, grey building. Yes, there are details that are interesting. But the overall structure is dreary. It looks like something built in saskatoon or edmonton in the 70s or 80s.
The three office towers that have gone up recently are all really disappointing. What redeeming qualities are there?
Rbc looks ok from north to south. But the western exposure from the gardiner is like a big, blank nothing.
And the ba centre is a total unredeemable dud.
Thank god for residential and hotel construction. That's where the interesting architecture is.
Be honest. Compare these buildings to td centre and commerce. Or brookfield place or the royal bank plaza.
They are duds.
wow. i cannot - even squinting - see any beauty in this building. it is a fat, squat, ugly, grey building. yes, there are details that are interesting. but the overall structure is dreary. it looks like something built in saskatoon or edmonton in the 70s or 80s.
the three office towers that have gone up recently are all really disappointing. what redeeming qualities are there?
rbc looks ok from north to south. but the western exposure from the gardiner is like a big, blank nothing.
and the BA centre is a total unredeemable dud.
thank god for residential and hotel construction. that's where the interesting architecture is.
be honest. compare these buildings to TD Centre and Commerce. Or Brookfield Place or the Royal Bank plaza.
they are duds.
wow. i cannot - even squinting - see any beauty in this building. it is a fat, squat, ugly, grey building. yes, there are details that are interesting. but the overall structure is dreary. it looks like something built in saskatoon or edmonton in the 70s or 80s.
On the one hand a lot of it seems to boil down to a personal preference for or dislike of glass, whatever the case may be. I like glass just fine but find the impact of individual buildings is lost when so many glass buildings, and so many that are arguably similar in design, are built in such close proximity to each other such that it starts to feel pretty 'Vancouver'-ized pretty fast. On the other hand, the skylines of some other cities like Chicago or New York seem more interesting because you see an evolution of building styles and materials all mixed in together which feels more organic.
June 9
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I've mentioned this before, but the problem with the new office towers in Toronto these days is that they are speculative developments. If they were designed as corporate headquarters right from the beginning we might have seen much more thought put into the design, as corporations would be looking for a more unique design to project a corporate image.