Recent content by adHominem

Love the colour palette, the materiality, and those balcony railings on the back side. The Avenue side is really let down by the fit & finish for me, though. All I can see are the mismatches where those angled pre-cast sections meet the horizontals.

Hasn't Salesforce Tower sunk like a foot-and-a-half, though? Maybe not the best counter-example ;)

Isn't that always the way? You put out your nicest white spandrel for guests and then someone spills a glass of red wine

🤦‍♂️ What a ridiculous oversight. I guess if you don't want to walk your bike down the stairs you have to cross the bridge, go down the ramp on the west side, and cross back at Pears.

That's two solid arguments for living here, then: 1. That amazing pool 2. Inside the building is the only place in the area you're guaranteed to not see its hideous exterior

:rolleyes:

Too soon to make a judgement on the cladding, but at least so far it's just boring, instead of being a third installment in the College-Spadina new-build horror-shows. This is OT, but I get annoyed all over again every time I see the new pedestrian barriers at Spadina streetcar stops. Over the...

What a delightful confection of a building; truly, an aptly-named architectural parfait /s

The purple balconies are actually the best thing about this building – at least they've got some panache. The rest of it is messy, poorly-detailed, drab, and cheap-feeling.

The screen should have been smaller – in the positive counter-examples you've shown, the tap target (the thing you're actually supposed to interact with) is much larger proportionally compared to the screen (the thing you're supposed to just glance at). It's not like the displays on Presto...

La Musée des Booze-arts, or La Boozée for short

This one wasn't very well recieved, I think mostly because of the material choices, which make it feel heavy and dull. I wish they'd gone for something brighter and added some colour. But the lakeside curve is nice, and I quite like the east and west sides – those angled units ensuring everyone...

The only thing that would help this is a direct hit from a meteorite.

I believe WKL was just making a joke based on Santa not wearing a hi-viz vest like everyone else on board (and like some of our dumber politicians want all pedestrians to wear instead of making roads safer).

I had a job interview in that building years ago; if memory serves, the elevators were Death Star chic: black granite and red LEDs.Some great late-70s style.