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Exterior looks like it was designed by a 6 year old. I’m usually all for irregular balcony patterns, but this looks worse than if they’d kept it simple.

Top notch post and photos.

Any addition to 344 University proper would be an utter travesty. No argument there. An eventual reworking of the interior towards, say, a residential component, while rather unfortunate, wouldn’t blind me with rage, if the exterior is respected. Inspired redevelopment of Simcoe parking...

Yes, indeed, that’s why nobody’s posted anything. Posts like this are annoying at best, and rude at worst.

Crazy disappointing. The massing and scale of this are so perfect for the neighbourhood, and it’s replacing the ugliest parking lot on the planet, and then they hit us with some cladding they bought on Kijiji from some developer who decided not to use it in 1997 because it looked too cheap...

Precast brick installation has start on the lower levels. While not disastrous, it’s.. pretty bad. Much paler than the rich tone shown in the renders, and big XO1 vibes with the panel gaps. Pretty disappointing. Sorry for the bad photos. The curved southwest corner remains unclad, we’ll see...

Well, my in-jest installation prediction was incorrect, which is exciting! Perhaps they’ll remove the wrap on New Years 😉. Unless, of course, that is the real colour, in which case I’m moving to Alberta. I mean, we saw photos of the actual materials in previews, there was a front page story...

I’ll be sad to see the Richmond street Scotia Cineplex go in a year or three, I have a ton of great memories of that theatre, but from this angle, you can really see that corner crying out to be redeveloped. It looks so squat and sad.

First Champagne coloured cladding will be installed Dec 31st, you heard it here first.

Agreed 1000%. It looks like a sign you’d see for a gift store at the airport.

The last few pages of this thread have been absolutely legendary. Huge thanks to all contributors! Incredible shots.

A bit early to pass any sort of final judgement on the cladding, but it’s looking like 5.5 or 6/10 to me. Better than Nobu and Peter and Adelaide, but those are low, low bars to clear. Never a fan of green glass, but there is certain crispness that might come to life here. Overall, not too excited.

Podium does look nice, making this the most frustrating project of all time. I love the design of the balconies in those upward facing shots, like honestly some of the best designed in the city, and there are a lot of balconies. But the cladding is such a disaster, and the opacity of the balcony...

POPS was still open at 6:45pm when I went on Tuesday… and it was gorgeous. Id been meaning to go, and it did not disappoint. Still lots of fall colours up there.

Yes! Super excited to see the top take shape. Spoiler alert: it’s gonna look cool.

Honestly, I’d probably take Nobu over this. So outrageously ugly, particularly the south-facing cladding, above the first setback. It doesn’t get much worse than this.

Ah. Thank goodness. If they sort that out, then this still has the potential to look… ok.

I’m a bit mad, but mostly, I’m just confused. What in the name of god is going on here?

Never mind, on second look, the horizontal mullions are clearly shown as exterior features.

Based on that render, one could argue they were never part of the exterior, as if you look close, it’s a little vague, but agreed, this would be a disagreeable development.