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It has been proposed to increase 3 floors to Phase One building just below the top floor and it has been proposed to increase 1 floor to the Phase Two building
 
Interesting to see what that would do to the diagonal balcony motif.

It will just end before the top floors' balconies, I presume, with the newly added floors having regular balcony glazing without the fritted motif.
 
The balconies themselves are travelling across each elevation too, the concrete of each floor offset slightly from where it was on the floor below… so I suppose they will lean out a little more on one side on the top floors?

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The scale and rhythm of the podium couldn't be more perfectly suited for the St. Michael's campus / its immediate context. When they want to be, aA are great at distilling themes and materiality from the immediate context into new projects. The towers in this project aren't particularly exciting to me, but what's happening at ground level / in the "people realm" is compelling and is being handled in such a way that I think it is actually going to be a great *improvement* to the St. Michael's campus.
 
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These towers, like aA's latest two in the Distillery, just won't look anything like their finished state until we see the balconies glazed. Until then, it will take some mental acrobatics to imagine the rendered final look in situ.

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