Toronto Waterfront Innovation Centre | 53.03m | 11s | Waterfront Toronto | Sweeny &Co

P23 said:
It seems like they spent time designing the Cherry Beach facing part of the building but forgot about the Queen's Quay facade. Even the stairs are closed off from the street.
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Exactly. On the stairs, specifically, seems like some treatment that just extended in a sort of wraparound feature so that there was continuous access to a corner entrance on the northwest corner of the building would slightly open up the experience onto QQ. Still, you'd have the problem of general intrusion/interruption of those stairs and the nasty massing and lazy design of the eastern portion of the building along QQ. This one needs some help.
 
I'm pretty much with you both on the last three posts.

The western third of the WIC needs to focus on its Sugar Beach frontage as its public face—and it should not protrude into the walkway—but the eastern two thirds needs to address Queens Quay as its business end, and the design should focus on another 'front door' there. Instead, that stretch looks forgotten.

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interchange42 said:
I'm pretty much with you both on the last three posts.

The western third of the WIC needs to focus on its Sugar Beach frontage as its public face—and it should not protrude into the walkway—but the eastern two thirds needs to address Queens Quay as its business end, and the design should focus on another 'front door' there. Instead, that stretch looks forgotten.

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Precisely. When I think of the criticism of buildings feeling "plopped down" with little consideration for their surroundings, this is essentially exactly what is conjured. You ask yourself if the architects have actually seen the site in-person.
 
Yeah the massing is terrible. From the renders, it pretty much hides away the Corus and GB buildings entirely. What were they thinking?
 
Josh said:
This thing looks like a lizard gobbling up people. Let's hope it gets a serious redesign before we see this monstrosity on our shores.
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Lizardy experience is not always bad, look at the podium of Theatre Park:

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modernizt said:
So? Intriguing design or outside-the-box thinking does not necessarily equate to massing that makes sense for the site. We can't just go "oh, they did something that looks different from __________, therefore it's great." That's how gimmicky architecture happens.
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And it's not even original gimmicky architecture, given the the derivative SLC form.

AoD
 
Theatre Park at the ground level is great - how it's related to this project - or lizards - is beyond me.
 
Moving onwards...

Application: Zoning Review Status: Not Started

Location: 125-155 QUEENS QUAY E
TORONTO ON

Ward 28: Toronto Centre-Rosedale

Application#: 16 154813 ZPR 00 ZR Accepted Date: May 12, 2016

Project: Non-Residential Building New Building

Description: Proposal to construct a 9 storey + mechanical level and 3 levels of below grade parking "Waterfront Innovation Centre" consisting of retail, offices, and meeting rooms. 125-155 QUEENS QUAY E. NOTE: SEE PREVIOUS PPR 15 172865 FOR REFERENCE.
 
http://www.menkes.com/commercial/projects/waterfront-innovation-centre

Coming Soon: The Waterfront Innovation Centre is a new cutting-edge project in collaboration with Waterfront Toronto, Menkes Developments and Sweeny&Co Architects located in downtown Toronto 125 &155 Queens Quay East. This new office building currently under development will represent the next evolution in commercial office development and will reinvent how employees work together in Toronto’s rapidly evolving creative and technology sectors – including advanced visualization and interactive digital media, film and TV production.

Pre-leasing is now underway for the building’s approximately 375,000 s.f. available office space and approximately 29,000 s.f. of retail space. Construction is targeted to start mid 2017.
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