Toronto 728 Yonge | ?m | 3s | Brook McIlroy

condovo · Sep 20, 2019

^^^ It seems to be shaping up that way. And the bronze panels and mullions are an easy win for me. Anything other than grey!

Johnny Au · Sep 23, 2019

androiduk said:
^ Yup. I think it may end up being the most beautiful Shopper's in the city, inside and out.

It is worth the wait from having a very small temporary SDM about the size of an average corner store.

zang · Sep 23, 2019

Johnny Au said:
It is worth the wait from having a very small temporary SDM about the size of an average corner store.

Not like there aren't a couple each less than 200m away—HBC and Manulife Centre. Not sure how this level of saturation is profitable, but whatever...

Benito · Oct 7, 2019

Stone cladding today.

Rascacielo · Oct 17, 2019

Today: a cornice is being added. Don’t think it’s in the renderings - at least not in grey/silver.

jje1000 · Oct 17, 2019

Cornice restorations are a beautiful thing.

That being said, this project is sure taking a long time.

junctionist · Oct 17, 2019

jje1000 said:
Cornice restorations are a beautiful thing.

That being said, this project is sure taking a long time.

I wish every Victorian building would have its cornices restored. Our city's architecture would be so much better if most buildings had their ornamental trim restored.

It was a very unfortunate trend in the 1940s through 1960s to remove ornamental trim from 19th and early 20th century buildings. Besides cornices, ornamental balustrades were often removed, as well as leaded glass windows, stained glass, terracotta panels, cast iron railings and lanterns, and bargeboard trim.

jje1000 · Oct 17, 2019

junctionist said:
It was a very unfortunate trend in the 1940s through 1960s to remove ornamental trim from 19th and early 20th century buildings. Besides cornices, ornamental balustrades were often removed, as well as leaded glass windows, stained glass, terracotta panels, cast iron railings and lanterns, and bargeboard trim.

I think it was a combination of trends towards more streamlined designs (these older features were seen as frilly and excessive) but more importantly, the slummification of the buildings, which produced what I call 'architectural erosion'- where non-cost-effective/non-trendy architectural features inevitably decay or are lost, and aren't replaced- gradually eroding a building to only a barely recognizable mass which hardly represents its original design intent. Bonus points for additions and recladding which further obfuscates the original design.

The site of 2 Tecumseh is a perfect example of this:

Reduced to this: