gristle
Senior Member
I also heard that a cafe was to move in. To add to the rumours, Freed's sales centre is supposed to move from King Street into 75 Portland.
Dan_550
New Member
Gristle - I believe you are right about Freed's Private Service Reality moving in... I also heard that a while back. A bakery would bring a nice touch to the street, hopefully that rumor is closer to true.
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camm
Guest
Confirmed new residence of Freed’s head office for Private Service Realty LTD. With a Café next to it. No confirmation on which Café it will be. A Le Gourmand would be great though.
carturo15
Active Member
Will they move the entire Sales and design centre? or only Private Service realty?, I mean the sales team?
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camm
Guest
Realty division only. But that could change due to cost efficiency. Guess we'll all see soon enough.
Parkdalian
Senior Member
This weekend. More photos of the white:
SpadinaBus
Active Member
Drove by today and saw a guy with bucket of paint and a roller applying the paint.
The paint they are using is DuoChem Duroplast 200 which is an acrylic paint. http://www.duochem.com/en/pdf/index/spec/DUROPLAST200WALLCOATING.PDF
I know a bit about coatings and although the choice of an acrylic is ok, it appeared from what I saw today that there was no primer(as recommended by most and the manufacturer DuoChem) and not much surface prep of the concrete going on. I fear that the condo owners will be painting this beast for years and it is not going to be cheap and it is not going to be pretty (ie. paint droppings everywhere).
Bottom line, the use of paint in a bucket that you can buy for $100 is not really an architectural finish for a residential condo in our environment and not cool for King West. Not impressed.
The paint they are using is DuoChem Duroplast 200 which is an acrylic paint. http://www.duochem.com/en/pdf/index/spec/DUROPLAST200WALLCOATING.PDF
I know a bit about coatings and although the choice of an acrylic is ok, it appeared from what I saw today that there was no primer(as recommended by most and the manufacturer DuoChem) and not much surface prep of the concrete going on. I fear that the condo owners will be painting this beast for years and it is not going to be cheap and it is not going to be pretty (ie. paint droppings everywhere).
Bottom line, the use of paint in a bucket that you can buy for $100 is not really an architectural finish for a residential condo in our environment and not cool for King West. Not impressed.
Red Mars
Senior Member
Maybe he needs a few dollars.
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joel in to
New Member
It's very disappointing. The new paint looks absolutely horrible from up close in person. I can't believe that Freed would have settled for this as a final finish on a very design oriented building.
gristle
Senior Member
So much of the concrete looks bad due to poor forming. Now this lousy paint job.
It goes from being a grey hulking mass to being a dull white hulking mass.
Compare and contrast with 550 Wellington.
It goes from being a grey hulking mass to being a dull white hulking mass.
Compare and contrast with 550 Wellington.
neuhaus
Senior Member
The building design looks stunning in the marketing materials, unfortunately the quality of the concrete work on this building is the worst I have ever seen in any building. Painting the concrete could only hide so much and I could see increased building maintanence.
SpadinaBus
Active Member
At last night's community planning meeting, Core Architects was present and openly suggested that the concrete forming on the project was bad and they shook their heads as to what was going on with respect to the paint.
So, who are we to believe in this debacle. Did Core really specifiy an architectural finish concrete (much more expensive than regular forms) and heavy duty surface prep once the forms are removed or is Core just trying to deflect blame off them for proposing this "look" in the first place to Freed. Bottom line is that between Core and Freed, they have screwed this one up.
So, who are we to believe in this debacle. Did Core really specifiy an architectural finish concrete (much more expensive than regular forms) and heavy duty surface prep once the forms are removed or is Core just trying to deflect blame off them for proposing this "look" in the first place to Freed. Bottom line is that between Core and Freed, they have screwed this one up.
SpadinaBus: I agree with your characterization of (Charles Gane of) Core's admission being 'open'; my perception of that statement was that it was completely genuine as well. Having seen other fine examples of his work including his own home, I do not believe Mr. Gane could have missed that point during the building's design stage. It's up to the client to set the construction budget, so Core can specify whatever they want, but Freed ultimately paid only so much to carry out the plan.
Bus, Gristle: I'm sorry that I did not get a chance to meet either of you at the meeting, maybe next time. (I had to rush out before Dermot Sweeny was finished describing his project.) Were any others of you there?
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Bus, Gristle: I'm sorry that I did not get a chance to meet either of you at the meeting, maybe next time. (I had to rush out before Dermot Sweeny was finished describing his project.) Were any others of you there?
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grey
Senior Member
It'll be interesting to see what action Freed takes here, if any.
At the very least, I really hope they apply what they've learned to 650 King West, which is a similar design.
At the very least, I really hope they apply what they've learned to 650 King West, which is a similar design.
Red Mars
Senior Member
I was present as well.
75 Portland got slagged for its questionable concrete workmanship.
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75 Portland got slagged for its questionable concrete workmanship.
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