junctionist
Senior Member
I'm waiting for them to cover those fans with some grills. Otherwise, it's an annoying detail they missed. How often do you see uncovered fans in an industrial setting like that?
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The Tenor (10 Dundas St E, Ent Prop Trust, 10s, Baldwin & Franklin)
I'm waiting for them to cover those fans with some grills. Otherwise, it's an annoying detail they missed. How often do you see uncovered fans in an industrial setting like that?
Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
Yes. They should cover the fans with some kind of senseless, tacked-on decorative element. Then my life will be complete.
MetroMan
Senior Member
^ right. Because the fans themselves are some kind of senseless, tacked-on decorative element.
I quit trying to figure out the intentions of the person who put together this abomination long time ago.
I quit trying to figure out the intentions of the person who put together this abomination long time ago.
syn
Senior Member
It's interesting. You'd think this would be an easier design project in that sense - all it really needs is a clean backdrop for the ads, but they couldn't even get that right.
CapitalSeven
Senior Member
Let's think positively for a moment. They can do anything to this building over the next 99 years - tart it up, knock it down, whore it out, bust it in, and who will care? It would only be an improvement. It's the one building that will never be encircled by preservationistas. Or has this been said before?
TonyV
Senior Member
While I was really referring to the huge (enormously tall) and yet uncovered ventilation shafts, not the fake fans, I agree ...
The ventilation shafts are supposed to be covered by a tall 3-piece ad in the rendering.
Another thing; did the rooftop cooling boxes appear in the rendering?
TonyV
Senior Member
Now this is going somewhere. How about having some of that orange-yellow goop creep across the street into featureless Y-D Square? We've been looking for a decorative element for that space. Orange/yellow against charcoal -- that's a great colour combination.
Cheesy does it!
junctionist
Senior Member
That's good to hear. Do grills count as "senseless"? I guess they would be if the fans are senseless in the first place. But if you're going to tack things on to make it look industrial and leave massive exposed vents and paint it grey, you might as well put some effort into it.
grey
Senior Member
Yeah, because TLS is one big fat pile of effort. Vents covering fake fans could be the finishing touch on this masterpiece. That's all it needs!
Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
One more decorative element to tack on to the building's side:
Bogtrotter
Senior Member
I can't understand why this building received so much attention in the first place. It all looks so tacky, junkie and underwhelming.
grey
Senior Member
It's receiving attention because it's one of Toronto's most important corners and it's generally regarded as a big disappointment.
alklay
Senior Member
I was inside again yesterday. They certainly spared no expense in sparing expenses: it could not look cheaper if they tried (and I bet they tried).
junctionist
Senior Member
Some hoppers would be nice, along with a giant dust separator on the roof.
Although the best new feature would be what Sir Novelty Fashion suggested.
caltrane74
Senior Member
One more decorative element to tack on to the building's side:
The first few renderings of Metropolis actually had a crane on the roof, not too hard to imagine attaching a wrecking ball to it and making it work as a decorative feature.