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Hi Junctionist.... you said, "Some have accepted the modernist principles, while others have doubts. This is reflected in the architectural styles of today's buildings." I think the "some" can be referred to Toronto's builders. Most of them still doubt what design can do to their sales...

"The tops of these towers are the height of pretension." I somewhat agree with your statement, interchange42. In a way, we are all pretending to be something that we are not, not just architecturally, but human in general. I forgot where I read this from, modern architecture always...

Thank you. my mistake. Onni it is.

I am sorry again, Still new here... I will do more reading before posting something stupid...

Sorry, I don't think I have double posted, though I am still relatively new to this site.

Guys I wonder if the name of the Vancouver firm should be Omni Pacific - http://www.omnidev.com/ instead of Onni.

Unique is the word to describe this building for sure. I like it. especially the circular "window" on the bottom floors... Has anyone seen the interior suite layout yet? I wonder how they look. and does anyone know if libeskind himself designed those suites?

The glass of the penthouse level does look a bit funny on the rendering. the contrast between the glass and the precast is too huge i think.

Hi dt toronto, true. getting your friends to have a friendly smoke is about the other function that a balcony will do! actually are you allowed to smoke inside your apartment unit as per the condo regulation??

The previous post was written like 2 years ago!

Balconies are a selling feature. I doubted they get used a lot especially our toronto winter won't allow us to use them to their maximum. if you drive by town, you don't see people sitting in their balconies. most of the time, they become people's storage rooms!

Just going thru some old thread, uptown won't look like ny tower because it's not a glass building! but I do hope it will turn out more art decoish! oh, and i hate the black podium, they should have kept it the same material as the tower. maybe the developer thinks they can make this building...

will the flooring of the top piece (specifically the lower level of the top piece) be made out of glass?? Imagine you are living on that level, it will be cool to be walking and sleeping on glass!

Surely this thread has been forgotten. Architecturally, I would say not too bad, not too good - Typical "condo in a park".... Greenpark has no tradition of making anything "contemporary", just take a look at the houses they build! It's a very conservative safe try considering this is their...

Please bring subway to north of steeles! This is the only healthy way of continuing development.

Anyone has the moving on Video? Wonder how they did all these!

I like how the loft portion steps up.... the proportion is nice. I am not a fan of the "hat" on top of the tower tho. The knife shaped fin doesn't do anything for me.

Thanks for the nice picture.. this building is going to be very nice. a mix variety of material... the rich red brick that matches the brick warehouse down the street. The Designer at Burka Architects sure did a nice job on it!

The small sized space problem also has to do with the low area standard for each room stated in the Ontario Building Code. If the OBC increases the standard, developers will have no choice but follow. Mind you that we compare our Toronto condo units to units of most Asian condos, ours are...

Make sure the soil are not contaminated? Maybe a soil report hasn't been produced for construction. I am not sure.