ushahid
Senior Member
9/10 under sun. 6.5/10 on cloudy days.
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condovo
Senior Member
The Preservationist
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Condovo I share your sentiments, I was hoping for a knock out here. While I'm happy to see the area developed this one it is generic. At least it's not another simplified box 
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
I'm not sure the office portion of this project was to intended to be super shiny like that...
Mercenary
Active Member
I like it.
Very unique among Toronto buildings
Very unique among Toronto buildings
Automation Gallery
Superstar
I like it too and far from being generic as stated above
isaidso
Senior Member
It wasn't. The point was that the execution of a very similar element was done MUCH MUCH better on the Lloyd's building. The quality gap is substantial.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
I think you're comparing apples to oranges here. As the only claim you can really make is that there may have some influenced in design from Lloyd's in the stairwell...but not by much though. The rest of the building doesn't even look like the Lloyd's one, even by stretch.
With that said, quality should be addressed separately for this project. And there has been plenty of questions raised on that through out this thread, including from myself.
ptbotrmpfn
Senior Member
Lloyds building was intended to look industrial.. like one giant machine or factory. The well is not. It’s only similarity sorta being that staircase. But Toronto does Toronto the only way it can.
Isotack
Active Member
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Outside of a few design cues, they're really not similar at all. Lloyds was a statement head office for a 300+ year old insurance institution, and cost between $650-700 (2020 rates) / ft. due to extreme customization. The Well is a speculative office building, designed to make money for its developers and asset managers (Allied and RioCan). I would be surprised if it's being constructed for more than $350-400 / ft.
There's very little similarity outside of the fact that they're both 'buildings'...
someMidTowner
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Photoshopping or GIFing Forum pics is how I spend about 30% of my work breaks these days:
Yegger
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If it weren't for First Canadian Place and Brookfield Place above, I wouldn't have recognized this was taken in Toronto, let alone which part of the City. Goes to show how much the skyline has changed in the past 10 years.
Johnny Au
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You must have very productive work breaks.
Isotack
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Happy to provide diversion material from the everyday BS we are all going through.