Toronto 1334 Dundas West | 13m | 3s | Centrestone | Gluck Partnership Architects Inc

bigcityboy · Nov 14, 2020

Friday.

bigcityboy · Dec 12, 2020

Today. Scaffolding is mostly gone. Clean lines. Good quality brick work. Might benefit from an awning above the first floor windows, but don’t know if that’s in the cards.

concrete_and_light · Dec 12, 2020

Great building, wow. If only we could have these built everywhere!

Towered · Dec 12, 2020

It's a decent addition to a very hip, urban area, but I can't help but feel that it's missing something. It looks more plain than I was expecting.

DavidCapizzano · Dec 12, 2020

I love it, especially how plain it is. Not every building needs to be a masterpiece - we need hundreds of these non flashy fabric buildings throughout the city.

Northern Light · Dec 12, 2020

Towered said:
It's a decent addition to a very hip, urban area, but I can't help but feel that it's missing something. It looks more plain than I was expecting.

I'm with you; I think it needs some sorta of visible delineation between the ground floor and the 2nd storey.

@bigcityboy spoke of Awnings, that might do the trick; or just a simple piece of wood, painted or stained, across the face of the building on which signage could be put.

We don't need grand elaboration or frills; but this still just needs a detail or two.

junctionist · Dec 12, 2020

Towered said:
It's a decent addition to a very hip, urban area, but I can't help but feel that it's missing something. It looks more plain than I was expecting.

It's a nice bit of contextual infill in its materials, colours, and scale. It maintains the streetwall. But there's not much architectural detail. As the sheen of the glass fades and light stains are left from the removal of graffiti over time, it'll fade to become a non-descript background building, the kind that people will look forward to demolishing for something more architectural.