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I just got back from Berlin, so maybe it's just that I'm sick of the "it's a step up for Toronto!" mentality. It's shit. Other cities are doing 3 times better in less prominent spaces. Here, we focus on the cheap.
This isn't just meant for this poster^^^ Its meant for all the complainers.
I would be curious to see ANY 50 story res. tower in Berlin, let alone one thats better than this. This tower is very elegant, and adheres to a century old form, that has stood the test of time.....please check the negativity , once in a while . Theres a lot to like about this project..
European skyscraper design, ain't all that people, in fact a lot of them are over bloated and hideous. ( the Turning Torso...I mean pleeeeze. HIDEOUS!! ) Seriously Berlin???...you wanna draw comparisons and you choose Berlin???....They have no skyline. Which only exagerates the impact of any 300 foot building.
The form is American in origin....and this tower will age nicely. This is a skyscraper forum....You want 12 story German apts.....go to that forum. You just want people to think ...oh he was in Berlin.....he must know something....well if you did you would praise this tower for it's massing, and recognize Its appearance on the Yorkville skyline has been immediate, and impactful, and really adds a ton to the center of the Yonge Bloor skyline.
Last if you wanna compare and criticize Uptown, do so against the Wall St towers its impersonating, at least then, the lack of ornamentation would be a real critique.....Not some blanket statement about " other cities doing 3 times better". Its just bandwagon mentality comment, and sounds like complaining for the sake of it.
People hate the glass towers , they hate the green, the spandrel, the pre cast, it just goes on and on....
Show me , whats so great in Berlin....then make fair comparisons. Not some blanket statement,about how cheap we are. The Chrysler Building ain't ever getting built again, and that goes for all the post WW1 towers, congrats to the Uptown for acknowledging its ancestors, and pulling it off the best that todays economics allows. Sorry if a little abrasive, I just get sick of wading thru post after post of negative blather from people who have never built a sandbox.