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1 St Thomas (Lee Development, 29s, Stern)

What's your opinion of 1 St. Thomas?

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Why would anyone automatically still like anything after 20 years?

As pointed out earlier in this thread, a poor person moving into a new aA building in Regent Park will be better off than a rich person buying in 1 St Thomas. Good design is not the product of some heirarchy of "quality finishes".
 
You're startin' to sound like an NDPer. I hope its not the price of the units that rankles you so.
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What exactly does that mean? The best-kept homes worth millions in the Annex are often the ones with NDP election signs on the front lawns, while the run-down shacks are usually the ones with the blue signs.

I've worked for a bank on Avenue Road for years and many of our wealthiest clientele are virulent NDP supporters. Champagne Socialists!
 
"I've worked for a bank on Avenue Road for years and many of our wealthiest clientele are virulent NDP supporters. Champagne Socialists!"

I'm not talking about inherited money and all the insecurity and guilt that accompanies it. I'm talking about people who want to start & run businesses, employing people in the process, without carrying an extortionary tax burden.

For another thread I suppose (obviously I'm trying to duck your response).
 
"Why would anyone automatically still like anything after 20 years?"

I'm sure your spouse would be reassured by that comment (more likely she'd agree with you).

"As pointed out earlier in this thread, a poor person moving into a new aA building in Regent Park will be better off than a rich person buying in 1 St Thomas."

Enjoy your aA building...

"Good design is not the product of some heirarchy of "quality finishes".

Uh, usually it is - although sadly I'll never know it first hand.
 
Maybe this would be a good time for everyone in this thread to fess up and reveal what type of building they live in, faux, modern, whatever. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the faux defenders all live in modern buildings while the faux haters all live in non-contemporary buildings...or even faux itself.
 
I live in an ugly faux-ish building with orange brick and green siding...it's nice on the inside though! Modern is a little hard to come by in Cobourg :(
 
buildup said:
Shocker your keying on my use of the word "taste" sort of highlights your sensitivity to the whole issue. What I obviously meant by "taste" is that if you like 1 St Thomas in 2007, you'll like it in 2027. If you like one of the modernist buillding today, you may not like it in 20 years because "tastes" change.
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Are you sure? I think there may be more people out there than you realize who were fans of retro-PoMo in the 80s and 90s but aren't now. Taste changes go both ways.

Were the Chedington built in 1985, it might have been seen as a cheeky and refreshing break from concrete-condo-corncob banality...
 
scarberiankhatru said:
Maybe this would be a good time for everyone in this thread to fess up and reveal what type of building they live in, faux, modern, whatever. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the faux defenders all live in modern buildings while the faux haters all live in non-contemporary buildings...or even faux itself.
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I shall cheat and say that this is the last skyscraper I lived in, Lake Point Tower, which was built in 1968 in Chicago.

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But the rest of the story is that I lived there for only one year as the result of a fortuitous sublet. Mostly what I live in these days are houses away from the city core. These residences have varied a great deal in style (a bit like Stern perhaps, when he moved to New Haven and finally went modern for a time, before changing once again).

wyliepoon said:
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(Note to Zephyr: I don't want to discuss Egyptian art.)
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Not game - even though I confess to being a fan of the Egyptologist W. Stevenson Smith who wrote extensively on the Amarna period? Drat! :)
 
Indeed I don't believe there is a single style of architecture that is always in fashion. I find the international style very appealing and it is perhaps as close as one can get to a universal form, but it has it's limitations. I tend to evaluate buildings individually rather than subscribe to a particular style or form of architecture. There are certainly some post-modern buildings that I really like and I think work very well, while others I find to be quite horrid. But tastes change among the general public and so does design- as they should. I personally don't agree that older forms and styles should be abandoned completely, sometimes historic architectural elements work very well in contemporary buildings. They may very well be labelled 'faux', but that does not in all cases make such buildings inferior in my opinion. I don't believe that CondoX offers anything more in design or imagination over 1St. Thomas.

As with most people- location and cost ultimately dictates what buildings and houses I live in. As for my personal preference however, I prefer older houses. I like to be surrounded by stone and brick and have the opportunity to fix the interiors myself.
 
I like the Stern building, I dont know why everyone is behaving so anal about it, (1 St.Thomas) trying to be something its not. As previous posts have stated no one will confuse this with 1930's architecture, but it does add some variety to the skyline. And will fit in well with the other buildings in Yorkville including the Uptown. ( In the end, it is what it is)

In a couple of years Yorkville will be a true skyscraper mecca.

I can't wait!!
 
"I love the Lake Point Tower."

And the curves certainly lend a sensual (if I dare) quality to it.
 
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