Toronto CampusOne Student Residence (was University Place) | 79.85m | 25s | Knightstone | Diamond Schmitt

Even the sun doesn't help. Says a lot when even employees of the firm which authored the beast can't stand it. Dreck.

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You're just speculating. It would have to be quite a bit thinner for a taller tower to produce less shadowing. Thinner and taller costs more money. There's no logic in thinking they would spend more on design if given the chance to build taller. It's a student residence.

Original 42 storeys, 40985 square metres
Built 24 storeys, 26300 square metres

LOL Those bottom 24 floors in the original plan would have been so much thinner. We actually escaped a taller eyesore.
 
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maestro said:
You're just speculating. It would have to be quite a bit thinner for a taller tower to produce less shadowing. Thinner and taller costs more money. There's no logic in thinking they would spend more on design if given the chance to build taller. It's a student residence.

Original 42 storeys, 40985 square metres
Built 24 storeys, 26300 square metres

LOL Those bottom 24 floors in the original plan would have been so much thinner. We actually escaped a taller eyesore.
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Haha, you have to get over with the small town, low-rise mentality and realize that tall structures don't necessarily look ugly or are eyesores to many
Hey...different strokes for different folks
... by the way the figures you posted above would have made the the 42 storey building 15% thinner than what was constructed, eyesore or not it would've probably looked better, just saying
 
Because we all know builders build to renderings in this large city. And if this isnt ugly, let’s just give up now and don’t bother trying.

AoD
 
Automation Gallery said:
Haha, you have to get over with the small town, low-rise mentality and realize that tall structures don't necessarily look ugly or are eyesores to many
Hey...different strokes for different folks
... by the way the figures you posted above would have made the the 42 storey building 15% thinner than what was constructed, eyesore or not it would've probably looked better, just saying
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No. the current structure would have been pretty much the same. The additional 18 floors would be thinner leading to the lower average. It would be even more overbearing and ugly than it is now. Another 18 floors doesn't mean they would have used curtain wall. It's a student residence developed by an experienced American student residence builder for a private equity firm. You don't get anymore profit driven than that.

Small town mentality is just lame for wanting a little consistency in the urban landscape. Established cities have defined places for tall, dense tower, not so dense tall towers, high rises, medium rises and low rises. Toronto is in a perennial pubescent state. Constantly redefining itself with a complete disregard for heritage and the established urban form. We already have neighbourhood choking on their densities from lack of vision. Exactly, how would a 42 storey, 18 FSI tower been better than what was built?

On second thought, don't answer.
 
maestro said:
No. the current structure would have been pretty much the same. The additional 18 floors would be thinner leading to the lower average. It would be even more overbearing and ugly than it is now. Another 18 floors doesn't mean they would have used curtain wall. It's a student residence developed by an experienced American student residence builder for a private equity firm. You don't get anymore profit driven than that.

Small town mentality is just lame for wanting a little consistency in the urban landscape. Established cities have defined places for tall, dense tower, not so dense tall towers, high rises, medium rises and low rises. Toronto is in a perennial pubescent state. Constantly redefining itself with a complete disregard for heritage and the established urban form. We already have neighbourhood choking on their densities from lack of vision. Exactly, how would a 42 storey, 18 FSI tower been better than what was built?

On second thought, don't answer.
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He can answer if he wants, whether you want to hear an answer or not. It would be better not to include your last sentence in other posts.

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