scrappyTO
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If one allows for neo-Deco all within eyeshot of Cityplace, it's quite acceptable.
I believe the building takes its cues from Tip Top as seen in this months-old photo...
If one allows for neo-Deco all within eyeshot of Cityplace, it's quite acceptable.
Which cues exactly? I can see a height similarity in the podiums, but even the Tip Top building, whose base I find somewhat heavy, seems very light in comparison to WHC, whose podium elements seem rather finnicky to me. When that's not visible, I don't mind the building really.
I'm worried that unless the residents inside the building bring something to the windows that the colour(s) of the building overall will be detrimental to the overall feeling of the architecture. Perhaps some greenery on the setbacks will be enough to soften its heavy feel.
Actually, I find Panorama far more Deco than Deco-aspiring WHC.
I don't find the proportions particularly elegant. It is bottom-heavy and occupies the land like some sort of invading army, when instead it could be light, and soar.
It is bottom-heavy and occupies the land like some sort of invading army, when instead it could be light, and soar.
I like WHC. It feels very 'Tim Burton' in its faux neo-gothic sense of theatricality.
I sort of like BSN for its ungainliness.