Toronto CampusOne Student Residence (was University Place) | 79.85m | 25s | Knightstone | Diamond Schmitt

[G.L.17]

Cell shot from two days ago:

 

[condovo]

My eyes! My eyes!

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

One look at that thing and you'd turn into a pillar of salt.

AoD

 

[jje1000]

If there were new city laws regulating how different a building could look from a publicized rendering, this would be one of the precedents.

 

[Edward Skira]

And the cladding isn't even complete yet...

 

[Northern Light]

Cell shot from two days ago:
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Sometimes, perhaps too often in this city, we 'hear' 'not in my back yard'.

In this case, I would readily accept 'Not in Anyone's yard, nor Anywhere else.'

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Unattractiveness to one side......(were that possible); the scale here is just so atrociously out of step w/the neighbouring properties.

Allowance of this is the clearest reason to discard the OMB

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

If there were new city laws regulating how different a building could look from a publicized rendering, this would be one of the precedents.

Will never happen

 

[maestro]

Would look better on King Street in Waterloo. Let's move it there.

 

[Bayer]

I noticed this thing a couple of weeks ago after my husband got cataract surgery at the Kensington Eye Institute; when we got out we both actually stopped in our tracks and looked at it in absolute horror. It doesn't even look fit to be a detention facility.

 

[Edward Skira]

Maybe its better from some other vantage points?

Nope.

 

[someMidTowner]

Today's Throwback Thursday has 2 new photos of the project from yesterday, and a little reminder of how the site looked a few years ago: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/05/throwback-thursday-campusone-student-residence

 

[jje1000]

Not worth it, IMO.

 

[LMVDR]

It's a downtown university dorm. That's exactly what itlooks like. What did you expect? The I.M. Pei pyramid?

U of T clearly needs more student housing and that's exactly what they got here.

 

[salsa]

It's a downtown university dorm. That's exactly what itlooks like. What did you expect? The I.M. Pei pyramid?

U of T clearly needs more student housing and that's exactly what they got here.

I didn't know that student housing is supposed to look like a prison. Because that sure as hell ain't the case at Ryerson, or York University.

 

[ProjectEnd]

It's a downtown university dorm. That's exactly what itlooks like. What did you expect? The I.M. Pei pyramid?

U of T clearly needs more student housing and that's exactly what they got here.

It's not a U of T project. It's a Knightstone rental, targeted at and marketed to students.