Red Mars
Senior Member
Thu May 21, 2020
Toronto The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini
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karledice
Active Member
Cool, the first crossbars! I always thought they're one piece and not assembled ;0
unicornsample
New Member
Escalators delivered:
Mirroring the Eastern end of the site. It's so much bigger irl...
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AHK
Senior Member
A beautiful late Sunday morning - good time to go to the park - nowhere near as crowded as it was yesterday - or otherwise relax. Except for those who are working today...
And there is a small crew in at The Well this Sunday - raising the north crane on the office tower up to its new level.
And there is a small crew in at The Well this Sunday - raising the north crane on the office tower up to its new level.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
We had faux Gothic, faux Classical, but it's finally time for faux Hi-Tech, where form definitely doesn't represent function!
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Red Mars
Senior Member
Tue May 26, 2020
TheKingEast
Senior Member
Think we got something cooking here
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ericn
Guest
Nice! I wonder what kind of tenants will occupy Wellington Market and the shopping areas.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
As always with projects, don't judge a project by its first bit of cladding. Almost always worth waiting until it comes together a bit more.Think we got something cooking here
I know, the more green glass we get on this thing, the worse it gets! No-one can really know just how bad this will look when it's all done!
(Plus the Xs appear to be purely decorative, not structural, so that's another rip.)
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smably
Senior Member
I haven't seen the glass in person, but above the rather unfortunate podium levels, this glass reads as more blue than green to me? I would have liked something a bit more silver, but this feels like a solid "not bad" to me so far.
p5connex
Active Member
Was just about to say that. The green glass just ruined what could have been a pretty decent, technical looking tower. The "fake-news" struts, is another reason to be disappointed. Is RIO-CAN responsible for these decisions, or HPA? Whoever it was should be given their walking papers.
I believe that the struts, when first proposed by HPA, absolutely were structural, but they got VEed out, along with the higher quality glass and a number of aesthetic and structural moves in the ground realm areas of the tower… and naturally, it's ultimately the people holding the purse strings telling the architects, "We want this, but cheaper".
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ProjectEnd
Superstar
The X's were *always* decorative. The green glass is a more recent, unfortunate, development.