The Whitfield

Developer: Menkes Developments, Core Development Group
Architect: Giannone Petricone Associates
  
Address: 33 Sherbourne St, Toronto
Category: Residential (Condo), Commercial (Retail)
Status: ConstructionCrane(s): 1
Height: 427 ft / 130.00 mStoreys: 39 storeys
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Toronto The Whitfield | 130m | 39s | Menkes | Giannone Petricone

...and 365 Church. It has more bargain grey spandrel than Canderel can shake a stick at. >.<
 
In the grand scheme of things there's nothing too interesting about the exterior of this building. However, considering Toronto's obsession with the banal, this is a real winner for the city.
 
Tyrang said:
The Eglinton is fine... it is above average compared to other Toronto condos. 365 Church tho.... like what happened Menkes?
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I guess fine in a sense, but it replaced a decent building with something cheaper looking, and with poor massing, heck the street level is a wash. 365 Church is worse, but the exterior to the Eglinton is still quite unfortunate.
I'd say its average with any condo building recently, but that doesn't mean its not mediocre.
 
I quite like this overall for the obvious reasons stated by others, the use of curves and colour are welcome relief from more typically banal boxes.

I still would have preferred real brick to pre-cast on the podium; but such is the need for value-engineering.....

My only other very slight nit, is that the colouration of the precast doesn't quite line-up w/that of the fins. The fins are a bit more red, and the precast is a bit more orange/tan.

I don't know that they need to be a perfect match, but I think I would have liked to see it a bit closer w/the podium becoming a bit redder and more vivid.

But its still a very good effort overall.
 
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