Panels are a brighter white than I expected, but the profile is nice and deep! I suppose they will weather and patina as the building ages - definitely evokes the manulife centre and the other brutalist / modernist buildings in the area with the use of concrete and opaque walls / skinny form.
They really ran with the existing colour palette of st James town with the grey and grey / blue...
Though I hate that I can see this stinker from my living room window, I am excited for the new retail that will hopefully come at the base.
It has been established sooooooo many times in this thread that that render does not reflect the final design submitted to the city.
There are still lots of details yet to be added like angular fins on the podium, tower and final trim.
Brick is gone.
Main office building components are now clad in green metal insulated panels. The stages are now ribbed precast concrete much more in line with the existing soundstage buildings in the area. It’s just more of a basic studio now which is fine, but why go through three rounds of...
Same here. I thought I could dash from my bathroom to the kitchen to grab my phone post shower, sans towel… needless to say the neighbour had privacy film up within the day 😅
Presentation to DRP here: https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/sites/default/files/2024-04/March-27-2024-WDRP-Basin-Media-Hub-Detailed-Design.pdf
Looks like this is getting put through the VE machine