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This building does not look exciting on paper and it's not much to look at from a distance, but it is the rare case of a street level that works. If the buildings on Queens Quay East had been built like this instead those endless walls of glass, it would have been a much better district. And this is not much different from a lot of street level treatments that fail. It's just a few small choices like lighting, materials, scale and proportion that keep it from feeling cheap and hostile. The Queens Quay buildings look fancy and photogenic from a distance, but the street level is total crap.

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The phone's white balance is correcting the colour, but the lighting is actually a calm, comfortable and warm colour temperature. This almost never happens because a lot of people who build things have an innate desire to punish all of humanity with horrible things..

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This is the sort of intimate, pedestrian walkway that you'd expect in a waterfront district. There's nothing like this on Queens Quay East except for a single cozy space (the little dog park) that appears to have happened by accident.

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It was nice walking around here for two minutes, but at this point it's one building surrounded by a sea of parking lots and strip malls.
 
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flonicky said:
This building does not look exciting on paper and it's not much to look at from a distance, but it is the rare case of a street level that works. If the buildings on Queens Quay East had been built like this instead those endless walls of glass, it would have been a much better district. And this is not much different from a lot of street level treatments that fail. It's just a few small choices like lighting, materials, scale and proportion that keep it from feeling cheap and hostile. The Queens Quay buildings look fancy and photogenic from a distance, but the street level is total crap.

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The phone's white balance is correcting the colour, but the lighting is actually a calm, comfortable and warm colour temperature. This almost never happens because a lot of people who build things have an innate desire to punish all of humanity with horrible things..

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This is the sort of intimate, pedestrian walkway that you'd expect in a waterfront district. There's nothing like this on Queens Quay East except for a single cozy space (the little dog park) that appears to have happened by accident.

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It was nice walking around here for two minutes, but at this point it's one building surrounded by a sea of parking lots and strip malls.
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