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Completely unacceptable in its current form. (period, full stop)
Completely unacceptable in its current form. (period, full stop)
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AlvinofDiaspar
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WT Mission Statement on Design Excellence:
Integrated design combines form and function to make our city better and more beautiful. To help achieve and uphold our standards for design excellence, we host international design competitions and work with some of the most respected planners, architects, designers and landscape architects in the world.
Often the best in the world are already based here in Toronto. When they are not, they partner with our outstanding local firms to help us create our new waterfront communities. By working with the world’s top design talent, we are establishing a new gold standard for waterfront revitalization.
To help guide our work and that of our design partners, we established the Waterfront Design Review Panel in 2005. The Panel is an independent body reviews all projects in the waterfront area and provides feedback and recommendations to our designers.
Achieving excellence is a key objective as we design public spaces and parks for our new waterfront neighbourhoods. . Signature details like the water’s edge promenade’s maple leaf granite mosaic, custom street lamps and benches, and parks like Canada’s Sugar Beach play an important role in creating an enhanced quality of place along our waterfront. Our parks and public realm set the tone for our new neighbourhoods and inspire our development partners to follow suite when designing their projects.
http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/...e/waterfronthome/our-vision/design excellence
Did their development partner follow suite? Is this what the most respected architects and designers will suffice themselves with?
AoD
Integrated design combines form and function to make our city better and more beautiful. To help achieve and uphold our standards for design excellence, we host international design competitions and work with some of the most respected planners, architects, designers and landscape architects in the world.
Often the best in the world are already based here in Toronto. When they are not, they partner with our outstanding local firms to help us create our new waterfront communities. By working with the world’s top design talent, we are establishing a new gold standard for waterfront revitalization.
To help guide our work and that of our design partners, we established the Waterfront Design Review Panel in 2005. The Panel is an independent body reviews all projects in the waterfront area and provides feedback and recommendations to our designers.
Achieving excellence is a key objective as we design public spaces and parks for our new waterfront neighbourhoods. . Signature details like the water’s edge promenade’s maple leaf granite mosaic, custom street lamps and benches, and parks like Canada’s Sugar Beach play an important role in creating an enhanced quality of place along our waterfront. Our parks and public realm set the tone for our new neighbourhoods and inspire our development partners to follow suite when designing their projects.
http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/...e/waterfronthome/our-vision/design excellence
Did their development partner follow suite? Is this what the most respected architects and designers will suffice themselves with?
AoD
josephdavidmckee
New Member
Remember this?
Came across Diamond Schmitt's design for the Waterfront Innovation Centre:
http://backstage.worldarchitecturenews.com/wanawards/project/dgs-dgg/?source=sector&selection=all
Pictures courtesy of World Architecture News:
tripwire
Active Member
Came across Diamond Schmitt's design for the Waterfront Innovation Centre:
http://backstage.worldarchitecturenews.com/wanawards/project/dgs-dgg/?source=sector&selection=all
Pictures courtesy of World Architecture News:
This is gorgeous!, how did it not win?
stjames2queenwest
Senior Member
YEP that is definitely a sad reminder.
Filip
Senior Member
Greed from Menkes and no teeth from WT.This is gorgeous!, how did it not win?
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Why bother having a competition at all if all they are after is something along the lines of 1 York, which is exactly what this is broadly speaking in terms of interest.
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christiesplits
Senior Member
You know a building is dull when the Diamond + Schmitt proposal is more exciting.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
And speaking of innovation, this is what Westbank is proposing in Vancouver for a similar kind of target clientele:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ds-for-the-creative-industry/article34953468/
http://urbanyvr.com/westbank-office-400-west-georgia
That's innovation. What's proposed here is not - it's what banks looking for suburban back offices would pick.
AoD
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ds-for-the-creative-industry/article34953468/
http://urbanyvr.com/westbank-office-400-west-georgia
That's innovation. What's proposed here is not - it's what banks looking for suburban back offices would pick.
AoD
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stjames2queenwest
Senior Member
Wow, beautiful. But I mean westbank is way better than menkes
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
If Menkes can't step up to the call, perhaps WT should reconsider their relationship with them. None of us are in a rush to see the site developed at the cost of an unsatisfactory outcome.
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MetroMan
Senior Member
Has anybody heard back if you emailed members of the design review panel? I have not. WaterfrontTO isn't commenting other than saying that the city owns the land and that they're leasing it to Menkes.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
am29
Active Member
We should protest the site!
old boy
Senior Member
Boy, near total agreement on this UT site - that's got to be a first. Does anyone in authority listen in, or even care what gets voiced here ?