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

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Airstrip One, more like.

AoD

 

[modernizt]

beware some godawful signage coming soon on the side

"Is there any way we can possibly make it even worse?"

"I'm not sure that's possible. But adding a big fugly sign on the side *just might* help make it as terrible as possible"

"Let's do that. Any more $h!t we can tack onto it while we're at it?"

Stay tuned... I can only imagine more horrors are forthcoming!

 

[Bogtrotter]

June 10:
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Generally speaking it is quite atrocious, but not completely awful if you don't look up.

 

[Edward Skira]

Generally speaking it is quite atrocious, but not completely awful if you don't look up.

And frankly most of the public don't look up.

 

[ADRM]

And frankly most of the public don't look up.

I think that's only true of people moving around the immediate area of a building. If I had a dollar for every time that friends/acquaintances who don't follow or care about architecture or development at all pointed out how boring our skyline has become, I would personally be able to bring in Kengo Kuma, DSRNY, RPBW, and HdM to fix it.

 

[interchange42]

I definitely want Toronto invited to that party.

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[Benito]

Today.

 

[ponyboy]

looks pretty good in that last pic, better than many new buildings in this city. Here is a not so attractive view from Chinatown.

 

[111]

The good.

The bad.

The ugly.

 

[interchange42]

What an obscenity.

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[salsa]

And frankly most of the public don't look up.

Try standing at the corner of Spadina & College and tell me that you don't easily notice the whole thing.

 

[P23]

Would have looked decent if they stuck to one design style. The boxy rectilinear form of the building envelope does not suit their haphazard window arrangement and mixture of surfaces. If they stuck to one or two materials and aligned the windows vertically it would look much better. Honestly, the random window crap looks bad on almost every building and I hate that it's a trend.

 

[interchange42]

Apparently this thing makes a T on the skyline when seen from the south in the evening:

(Didn't have the whoop-de-doo camera with me.)

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[ADRM]

Apparently this thing makes a T on the skyline when seen from the south in the evening:

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(Didn't have the whoop-de-doo camera with me.)

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T for terrible.

 

[Amare]

Unfortunately the developers probably take it as a T for terrific.