[Midtown Urbanist]

So what is worse, 10 Dundas or this?

 

[interchange42]

10 Dundas, no contest. Meanwhile, this one's not finished.

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[Edward Skira]

10 Dundas as well.

 

[P23]

Yeah, not a big fan of the outside expansion. It's just haphazardly stacked boxes, like something a kid would build in minecraft.

 

[Roundabout]

May 7th update:

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I've decided this does not look as bad in person as it does in the pictures.

I think its the context of the old towers behind the mall that makes the expansion look grating.

 

[hawc]

Okay, am I crazy? I think the original 'old' towers looked handsome and good looking on their own. I love the big black openings on the bottom. I feel like this grafted on part is an abomination and wrecks the original architecture. Must all our buildings have these mini mall podiums growing out the bottom like fungus? Can nothing be left alone to just be a tower like you see in NYC and Chigaco?

 

[maestro]

The old towers represent the cheap knockoffs that ended the international style. I don't see any of these mini malls growing out of the Bay Street towers either.

 

[hawc]

Cheap knock-offs or not, still looks better than what's happening now. Like mushrooms growing out the bottom of a tree.

 

[Tulse]

Cheap knock-offs or not, still looks better than what's happening now. Like mushrooms growing out the bottom of a tree.

That shipped sailed a long time ago with the Silver City carbuncle.

 

[salsa]

I don't see any of these mini malls growing out of the Bay Street towers either.

Not a mini-mall podium, but a podium nevertheless. I think they are a waste of space in the financial district, and unattractive.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Why don't they stick street retail in them?

 

[interchange42]

Single digit number of hours ago:

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[aporia]

The upper levels of the new addition go high enough to block the windows of the offices on some of the lower levels of the office buildings. Does anyone know what's happening there? Will the new mall be connected to the second and third floors of the office buildings, and those converted into some other use? The views are completely blocked, I'd guess, so if kept as they are it would be like working in a basement.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Why don't they stick street retail in them?

There is a bank branch, a starbucks, and a mobile phone store in those photos. How much more retail do you need?