steveve said:
The crown looks great, it actually plays off of Uptown Residences crown a bit, but executed on a much larger and grander scale. And the roof garden definitely screams amenity space of some sorts, with massive roof fins to protect those spaces from winds at those heights - hopefully making it habitable. If that is the case, it will be a spectacular space.
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I was going to mention this earlier; this is more or less how the crown on Uptown should have turned out.
 
Yes I agree, the fins on the Uptown should have been much more prominent as in the renderings.
 
While I still miss the diagrid pattern, the top of this new iteration kind of makes up for the loss.
 
Marcanadian said:
I can't say I like the base as much as the previous design, but the roof now looks like it may hold an amenity space or, this is just wishful thinking, a restaurant/public observation deck.

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I wonder what kind of trees they'll plant that will be able to stay that green in the middle of winter.
 
This crown provides much more of a 'moment' to the structure. This is going to be the tallest building in the uptown cluster (yeah, in the whole country too) so I was hoping for something a little more dramatic than a squared off cap. It could still be pushed a little more?

I like the use of Hue's and really appreciate the strong vertical - almost gothic buttress-like - effect of the grid columns.
 
I like a lot of the new details, and definitely think this is a big progression from when the hanger design was first introduced.

The roof is excellent, and the renderings of how it interacts with Yonge street are also great. I wonder why there's nothing to show Bloor at street level yet.

The one thing that does turn me off, however, is the colour palette. I don't know why that had to change with the design. Personally, I would much prefer this new design in the same warmer redish hues of the former design, rather than beige. That corner has plenty of beige and brown already.
 
Ottawan said:
The one thing that does turn me off, however, is the colour palette. I don't know why that had to change with the design. Personally, I would much prefer this new design in the same warmer redish hues of the former design, rather than beige. That corner has plenty of beige and brown already.
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TBH I actually like a more subdued palette - it's more traditionally Foster. As much truth as there is in the statement that we have too much grey in the city, F+P can work wonders with that colour (think of all the truly iconic structures by that firm and think how many of them are grey?)

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I like the old one because it was a thick building with presence. The diagrid to me is more pleasing than the hanger design today.

(I like buildings that look like office towers....)
 
Looking at them side by side, I must say the original proposal does not look as amazing as I had remembered it.

I'm actually very pleased with the current one.
 
The floorplate has changed, giving it a "skinnier" look.

It still looks around the same height compared to the One Bloor East ghost put in the render.
 
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