TheKingEast
Senior Member
Still putting up spandrel facing Yonge in 2017. For the love of God, make it stop!
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Benito
Senior Member
Rascacielo
Senior Member
Today
G.L.17
Senior Member
Miscreant
Senior Member
That spandrel wall is outrageous. Facing directly onto one of the busiest intersections in...Canada. It's almost petulant in its disregard for complimenting the city and respecting public space.
stjames2queenwest
Senior Member
^agreed it is terrible, but it might be covered already by the time this finishes, I'm more concerned about the rest.
ardwold1
Active Member
Terrified for that towering spandrel zig-zag between balcony...clumps. Insulting.
carrythezero
New Member
stjames2queenwest
Senior Member
It's pretty bad. For a bit there I was really optimistic because the podium forms were pretty intriguing. But all the grey spandrel and mullions. Yikes
Adjei
Senior Member
This powers that be don't care how the city looks so what do you expect.
Benito
Senior Member
The addition to the Oddfellows building will hide some of that awful spandrel mess facing College St.
Irishmonk
Senior Member
I really don't understand TPTB in Toronto sometimes. Their greed, callousness, negligence and merciless disregard for their own city is not just shocking, but also dumb, visionless and ultimately self defeating. Making the city ugly depresses real estate values and affects the bottom line you dummies!
jje1000
Senior Member
You'd think that any sort of successful city planning would involve at least some minimum standards in building design and quality of materials.
am29
Active Member
All this spandrel mess in the city is the governments fault..
Developers are going to do what they do is supply units onto the market to meet what the demand is asking. If the demand is asking for cheap units.. it's on the city planning who should be doing what they do and plan the city better by demanding quality materials and quality designs(I know designs are subjective but we already have a DRP that seems to be more worried about the height of a building than how it would actually look in real life).
Developers are going to do what they do is supply units onto the market to meet what the demand is asking. If the demand is asking for cheap units.. it's on the city planning who should be doing what they do and plan the city better by demanding quality materials and quality designs(I know designs are subjective but we already have a DRP that seems to be more worried about the height of a building than how it would actually look in real life).
condovo
Senior Member
^^^You don't understand how the DRP works, clearly.