I think the render Steveve posted is very accuate in an "Armageddon, Day After Tomorrow, 2012 CGI lighting" kind of way.

People... Look at the other buildings in the render! Who would believe anything this artist was depicting?
 
I think the picture Steve posted depicts the building lit with yellow lighting. I don't assume that the building actually has a yellow tone to it. In fact in some areas of the picture it displays the building to be off white. We'll see what the beast looks like with the crown it put on top, that is if the crown is still part of the design element.
 
Yeah... I guess....

they tricked us all :eek:... -bastards.

yeah... it's a lighting trick... The building looks more classy when it's golden...
 
Those renderings are renderings. Enough said. It looks like a night shot with the last of the sunlight hitting the building. Maybe accurate from that height with those conditions, who knows?
 
steveve said:
Yeah... I guess....

they tricked us all :eek:... -bastards.

yeah... it's a lighting trick... The building looks more classy when it's golden...
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Never trust renderporn steveve. More often than not the materials don't come close to what the marketing people design. Below is a link to what the Uptown showroom model looked like. To be fair, it's probably pretty close to what we'll see by this time next year.

http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=464&page=38 - post #566
 
Dec. 12th

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge, then click again on the image for full size.


 
oooo... uptown looks so clean/fresh from those shots!!!... especially the perfect white cladding and the crystal clear glass!... oooo.... so gooood! :D
 
Oh the good ole render argument again. A render's purpose is to visually show you what the finished product is supposed to look like. If they blatantly lie about materials and colours, then one deserves to be disappointed.
 
Depending on how the precast ages, it might actually might add some character to the tower. It's too bad they're not using stone like 155 Cumberland.
 
Mike in TO said:
155 Cumberland is a high end luxury building. Uptown is not.
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good point Mike. Please pass that on to some of the realtors who keep trying to peddle their assignments in this building.

They claim it is high end Yorkville living akin to anything on Cumberland or Yorkville.
 
Mike in TO said:
155 Cumberland is a high end luxury building. Uptown is not.
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Surely there must be something in between a high end building and a steaming turd though. I hope this building finds that happy middle ground because this thing is way too tall to be unnoticed as a turd.
 
With all due respect, anybody who thought that Uptown would be anything other than what it is turning out to be is seriously, unquestionably, unremittingly naive.
 
My comment was specifically referring to stone vs precast cladding - with stone being extremely cost prohibitive and its application on residential buildings typically only occurring at the ultra-high end of the price-point (Uptown opened at $575psf and the remaining handful of units is averaging a bit over $800psf - it also has a lot of exterior 'wall space' being covered by the panels - 155 Cumberland on the other hand has some of the most expensive units ever built in this city with many being in the eight figure range, all over $1,500 psf and only has stone built on the sides). The typical condo purchaser can’t afford the most expensive exterior cladding systems.

I'm not trying to defend Uptown, it is what it is and I’m surprised that many people had high expectations for the structure (take a look at the proponent's portfolio). There is a wide range of pre-cast applications and examples in the city that range from terrible to being of fairly high quality. Hopefully the end result is half decent.
 
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