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Looking forward to the ribbon-cutting in 2045.

The colour makes it way better IMO. To the point that I would take this over your average “mid-tier” grey tower. Purely because warm colours do nice things for your brain chemicals and grey does not-so-nice things.

Continuing my multi-thread diatribe against Toronto architects’ obsession with asymmetry (I’m clearly in a bad mood lol): I see a couple examples where they're substituting real design for asymmetry. They look, to my untrained eyes, totally needless. Presumably it’s to feel like they're...

I suppose I ought to share my contribution to this architectural debate, originally made in the Concord Sky thread: Thoughts? I’ll try to tone down the snarkiness, as I know some UT contributors are in the architectural field themselves — most of you do great work I’m sure! But the tower...

I think thats what gets me the most. Its such an ingrained habit that even well-designed developments like this will do it. Another, even worse example, is the proposed College Park completion. For absolutely zero reason, they decided to separate the beautiful masonry podium from the handsome...

I do hate it. Sterile, dark, sad. Could they not have made the massing red, for God’s sake?

Toronto architects, even the good ones, have this inexplicable obsession with asymmetry. So you get random cutouts like this breaking up what would otherwise be nice straightforward massing.

Looks like a prison. One of those swanky Norwegian prisons, but a prison nonetheless

Im fine with a greenfield location in theory, but the fact that the entire western part of the site appears undevelopable doesn't bode well for its intensification potential.

What a silly, heavy-handed solution. I wish city planners would stop being obsessing about master-planning and allow cities to develop organically. From what I understand, street parking is illegal in most places in Mississauga. Would legalizing that not address a lot of concerns?

I actually kind of like it… i wish more towers had this sort of texture. Ground floor looks sharp as well, the way the modern bit complements the historical facades without being a flat glass nothingburger. Not sure why they made the top setbacks asymmetrical, though. Even it out and (if you...

That ground floor… woof. Another case of wide + narrow retail units due to outsized loading facilities. Worse yet, they're planning on making the loading facilities front the pedestrianized old Dundas alignment. Whats the point of that pathway even existing if it’s going to be barren and windswept?

Not just residential, either: that retail unit looks horrendous!! Insane to me how much ground floor space is dedicated to loading & back of house stuff. Wasn’t Jason Thorpe supposed to address that?

Poor choice of words. The shape of the building is brick-like.

Ok, that doesn’t explain why it has to be boxy and colourless though. Why is white black and grey the default palette for contemporary buildings??? Personally, I think there are WAY bigger targets for criticism than this building — the base looks good and the tower looks OK — but the fact that...

I will never for the life of me understand why Toronto architects are OBSESSED by asymmetry. What the heck is that chunk of light grey cladding near the top? Do they really think that adds the right kind of visual interest? I quite like the ground floor treatment though.

Seems like a rather unfortunate placement of the loading dock — it takes up a huge chunk of the college st frontage. Is there any way they could have connected up to Ellen St in the back?

I’m still not super clear on why this is. Tightening labour/safety laws leading to more spent on liability prevention? Labour shortage leading to higher wages? Productivity declines because everyone’s on their phones? Regarding the former, I work in the health & safety space, witha ton of GC...

Yuck. Grey, boxy, weirdly proportioned, oppressive… this is one of those buildings that normies will likely hate even more than architecture snobs (not that they'd give it high marks either). Does anyone know if grey panelling costs less than red panelling? If not, why do people keep going for it?

Can anyone share a rendering of the original “giraffe” proposal?