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^ As much as these glass boxes seem repetitive, I would definitely still have them over any pomo/neo-deco or faux-historic/pre-cast design. RoCP fails on so many levels. Apart from being ugly towers, the base is one of the worst in the recent construction boom; weak two storeys with retail units hidden behind pillars (typical Bay canyon fail).
One question: is 500 feet listed in the proposal or is it just an approximate guess based on the amount of floors????Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadianNational
It's a guess.
UT poster Mongo figured out that an average floor size for a residential building under 65 floors in Toronto is about 3.2 metres - or, about ten and a half feet.
I rounded the building down for convenience's sake to a plain ten feet - as so as not to inadvertently exaggerate. So - the actual building might be about twenty-five or forty feet higher, given mechanical and retail considerations, and if the central series of floors turn out to be standard height.
You're right on the money, give or take a couple feet....Oh by the way CN, i do appreciate all the work you do sketching-up different projects on UT, and that last remark on choping it down the middle was not directed at your great work, but what i would like to see there.Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadianNational
I feel a slimmer and somewhat taller would be great on this site also. Maybe not a box, maybe something like the dorms planned for College St.
This could be a great location for Canada's first super tall. Something slimmer and taller.
What's with the ROCP bashing. It's by far the best design in that ugly glass stretch of Bay. But then again i'm not a fan of all glass residential towers.
LOL, i know, but then here on UT if you dont want the heat, you're better keeping low profile when it comes to bringing upQuote:
Originally Posted by Thanos
ROCP, Uptown, Brookfield Place, and a couple other precast structures.:D
But the city needs this to break from the monotone all glass design that's plaguing this city.
However, everyone i know in Montreal is dying for an all glass building to break from the monotone red brick design of that city.
Brookfield Place? What's wrong with that design?
Nothing, to me its the most iconic of all skyscrapers in Toronto.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thanos
I think this will be a great addition. The next super tower should go up across from the Bus terminal on Bay. Only large enough site around here. Liberties must feel like ants among giants. With everything larger in its vicinity. WIth Sick Kids Research building across, this area is really booming. Does anyone know what happened to that zoning amendment that was on the corner of bay and grovsnor, where the old Canada Publications building was? It was there two summers ago i believe.
No chance of a super tall north of the bus station. The view of City Hall would be impacted massively. And many people on the forum like Brookfield Place. ROCP not so much.
One possibility: to see something a bit svelte, misty and mysterious go there to offset the general blockishness of the area.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...softrender.jpg
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...oftrender2.jpg
^ These two drawings are just fantasy sketches, and don't reflect any known plan for the site.
If this is going to impact on the view up Bay past City Hall Clock tower, though, it'd better be refined and unobtrusive...and getting a refined box is probably the fastest route to satisfying everybody. I do hope whatever goes up here, that the architectural quality of it will be high.
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Originally Posted by MBS
Nice idea! but i guess we will believe it whenwe see it right!
Signs have been put up on the site to describe the proposal, but I didn't have my camera... it's similar to the newer towers in the area, as far as I could tell.
If it were to be glassy and highly reflective, à la Bay Adelaide with its sky scenes, it could potentially correct the mistake made with ROCP.Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadianNational