Toronto CN Tower: Entry Pavilion, Plaza, Renos | ?m | ?s | CLC | Arcadis

[Armour]

Maybe we can get a "Drake-inspired" pavilion. Anything better than this garbage.

Garbage doesn't cancel out garbage.

 

[lansd]

Please note that this all-important CN Tower presentation is by RSVP only due to the very limited seating, many of which I have pre-allocated to the Toronto media and related historical groups.

RSVP online here:

https://cntower.eventbrite.ca.

If there is further interest then I would be happy to provide the 90mins presentation to other architectural and engineering groups upon request. This will not be your average boring, text-based PowerPoint presentation It will be one of the most intense and interesting reviews of the tower's history starting in 1957 and ending in 1976, with the emphasis on all the core people who built it, their experience prior to working on the tower and generally what & how they contributed to the tower's success.

 

[CanadianNational]

This addition - plus the unfinished, awkward look of the one behind it - are a disgrace, IMO. The open-air rectilinear addition was bad enough with the underside of the roof more or less exposed, and now this. I agree with P23 when he says that it should take its design clues from the rest of the tower.
On the plus side, both these additions look extremely provisional, and we can expect - or hope - that they will be demolished and replaced in a few years.

 

[Miscreant]

May 22:

 

[interchange42]

What an embarrassment.

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[Miscreant]

Well, for whatever it's worth, it looks better in person...

...okay, it's not worth much.

 

[TheKingEast]

That's pretty brutal. Yikes!

 

[Transportfan]

Why does the tower still have a bilingual name? Seems excessive to me.

 

[interchange42]

UrbanToronto advises that everyone stays well away from the troll.

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[MetroMan]

So it turns out, the building is being used exclusively as a place to house security checkpoints. There's nothing inside but a line of metal detectors. Could this not have gone under the recently built large canopy?

So last year, they built a large shaded area to accommodate crowds waiting to get in. Now they built a small area before it where people are typically waiting in the sun to get through security after which point, they don't have to wait in the large area anymore which is now redundant and rather useless.

Let me guess: next they're going to build another large canopy in the plaza to house the people waiting to get to the security checkpoint...

Seriously, heads have to roll over this. What incompetence!

Both buildings have unfinished ceilings and other extremely cheap out structures.

 

[Transportfan]

UrbanToronto advises that everyone stays well away from the troll.

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The CN Tower isn't a government building. And for the record, I'm not against the bilingual welcome sign, just bilingualizing the name itself sounds excessive.

 

[Amare]

How did this nonsense get approved in the first place? Better yet, who approved it?

 

[MetroMan]

Here's a better view inside.

Completely bare bones, and totally unnecessary given the space available under the canopy.

 

[syn]

I must say this entire thing epitomizes the worst in Toronto design/architecture.

With such a great opportunity why build something so hideous? It has all the charm of a makeshift Canada Border Services processing centre.

 

[NIL OMNI]

An abomination. Checkpoint Charlie had a better design than this.