Toronto L-Tower | 204.82m | 58s | Cityzen | Daniel Libeskind

RiverCity1 said:
It's getting exhausting having things like that show up in our email boxes. Daily. Sometimes hourly.
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"our email boxes"? are you posting on behalf of a group? anyway:

1. go to 'settings'

2. on the left: click 'general settings'

3. see all those options there? pick a bunch that aren't "Default Thread Subscription Mode: Instantly, using email"
 
I absolutely love this building. The impact it has on Toronto's skyline when driving into Toronto on the Gardiner is absolutely incredible. Dare I say that it is almost iconic.
 
These are the kind of buildings we need more of. L Tower isn't going to be regarded as an architectural masterpiece I suspect, but it's very impressive. If there's one thing that makes architecture boring in Toronto is this lousy dichotomy of iconic masterpiece versus background building. Every building should stand out for a city that's architecturally impressive, with a few that take things to a higher level. Furthermore, great buildings should be preserved and reused, and not demolished even for new great buildings.
 
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Vertical panorama stitched together from 5 pictures taken this morning. Full resolution version here.
 
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One of the things i love about this building is just how simple the design is. You see all these other condos going up that seem to be a mess because its covered with all these different colours and shapes, which sometimes doesnt work, when really its these simple yet elegant buildings that work for me.
 
Kai55 said:
One of the things i love about this building is just how simple the design is. You see all these other condos going up that seem to be a mess because its covered with all these different colours and shapes, which sometimes doesnt work, when really its these simple yet elegant buildings that work for me.
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it's weird cause I agree with you on the elegant design, but what stops this building from being perfect is the cladding imo. It's a little too busy up close with the balconies, vertical white strips, and the window framing. A smoother, mirror-like curtain wall might have looked a little sharper and more elegant; I also think that the podium shapes are a little unnecessary (although necessary for any sort of ammentities to exist. I think it would have been pretty cool having the entrance on the north side without anything in the way, so you could look up witht the building towering/tapering above you; but that's just me.
 
Balconies ruin pretty much every building. No one knows how to make them properly. Inset looks ok on L Tower, but it would look ten folds better without any.
 
000 said:
Balconies ruin pretty much every building. No one knows how to make them properly.
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Balconies don't have to be a bad thing, or a hidden thing. A lot of newer Toronto designs have been embracing balconies instead of trying to minimize their impact. Think Market Wharf, Clear Spirit/Gooderham.

000 said:
Inset looks ok on L Tower, but it would look ten folds better without any.
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Like many projects, a vision like L Tower probably would have been better executed as an office building, entirely clad in the same curtain wall as the existing north side. That statement aside, for a condominium this is beyond top notch.
 
I think they should not have used spandrel on the sides with the balconies. Instead they should have used the balcony glass to create the vertical lines.
 
love the hdr effect ^ L tower would definitely have looked equally as nice/if not better if it were slightly taller especially since 88 Scott will rival it in height... needless to say, still a really nice, stand-out building. The addition/impact on the skyline is at par with the Four Seasons imo.
 
steveve said:
love the hdr effect ^.
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Thanks. Shooting to the west into the sun in the evening washes out a lot of detail, so I had to photoshop the hell out of todays lot of photos!
 
someMidTowner said:
Thanks. Shooting to the west into the sun in the evening washes out a lot of detail, so I had to photoshop the hell out of todays lot of photos!
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All of that super bright strained my little tool kit. This was the last easy pic of the day.



This photo required more than I have to make it look good.

 
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