|
|
|
170 North Queen industrial to retail/restaurant conversion (?, 1s, ?)
- Thread starter interchange42
- Start date
Well, I didn't expect a lot of traffic in this thread…
Nearly a year later, and this site is being turned into a big box extension of the Smart Centre-y type place that exists just to the east of it. The Sail store that you can see in the last photos is the first of the existing shops.
This one is being developed by Quaestus Corp. and will include a Michaels, a Pier 1 Imports, a DSW, something called Salons by JC that I do not care to look up.
The car is still king in suburban Etobicoke.
42
Nearly a year later, and this site is being turned into a big box extension of the Smart Centre-y type place that exists just to the east of it. The Sail store that you can see in the last photos is the first of the existing shops.
This one is being developed by Quaestus Corp. and will include a Michaels, a Pier 1 Imports, a DSW, something called Salons by JC that I do not care to look up.
The car is still king in suburban Etobicoke.
42
Attachments
Lenser
Senior Member
Funny how these places all manage to look the same - squat, soulless, amoeba-like blobs with carbuncles of neo-classical appendages glommed onto the main sprawling mass: blocky pediments and faux archways looming wakwardly over the entrances. Was there ever a shopping mall or big box development that managed to actually look good? Maybe back in the day, when the car was still an innocent joy to celebrate and consumption was considered every citizen's duty and right.
Now? They just appear grotesquely retro and obscenely wasteful.
Now? They just appear grotesquely retro and obscenely wasteful.
I once saw a Robert A.M. Stern-designed big box plaza in suburban Chicago (Wheaton) that 1) made me a little envious that they'd actually employ a serious architect for a big box centre, and 2) worried me that people might start taking big box centres seriously if better architecture started proliferating at them. Both silly concerns. No need to be envious about things I'd rather not see very often in the first place, and architecture, good or bad, has never been the key to these places proliferation!
42
42