Toronto Beyond The Sea | ?m | 44s | Empire | Richmond Architects

[urbandreamer]

Beyond the (Old Man and the) Sea in all its glory:

http://now.eloqua.com/es.asp?s=288&...0EABF990&elq=F968C8806BD54792A2F65F312B74BD90

Empire sends me these lovely email flyers for some reason.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Kind of a silly website what with Starfish in glistening, clean, blue water. I know we have zebra muscles now but Starfish?

 

[Hydrogen]

The Toronto Condo Bad-Name-O-Meter just dropped another notch.

Yes, the faux allusion factor gave the meter a significant hiccup.

 

[CDL.TO]

Looks cheesy and has a silly hat. Should fit right in on the Etobicoke lakeshore. It can be our "Cheesy Condos With Silly Hats" district.

 

[salvius]

It's not awful, and it fits the area well.

Now the name...

 

[maxt797]

here it is...

and i added it to my database.

http://torontohighrise.info/BuildingSummary.aspx?BuildingID=850

 

[salvius]

Ugh, reverse that...

It is actually quite stubby, isn't it.

 

[Bogtrotter]

Reminds me more of a garden gnome than anything remotely oceanic.

 

[ShonTron]

It reminds me of a shorter, cheaper CityPlace Signature Tower, complete with suggestive top.

 

[maestro]

looks okay if this was 2002

and this could of been Mistral (from several years ago)

 

[Andrew3D]

Looks better suited for Calgary then Toronto, but it's not so bad that I hate it.

 

[cassius]

Looks like a cousin to The Met to me.

 

[ganjavih]

Its chapeau isn't as bad as those of its neighbours.

 

[Observer Walt]

Well, silly name or not, this project seems to be popular. The north tower sold out in June, during the pre-registration phase. They didn't even bother to get people into the sales office. The news on the radio this morning (July 26) reports that people are camping out overnight in advance of sales starting on the south tower.

 

[alklay]

I wonder what accounts for the huge demand.