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389 Church St Modernization (Toronto Community Housing, 13s, Hilditch Architect/WSP Global)

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Decent materials, interesting shape, the ribbon windows give it a nice vertical rhythm, and there's some colourful murals. It obviously needs some love (hence the current work) and like so many buildings of the era the ground floor isn't terribly welcoming, but I'd take this over the new builds to the south of it any day.
 
The work here has been done for a while now but anyways here's how it looks:

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I cant believe it..... this is horrible. It's hurting my OCD and my Design Background. I wouldn't even call it Lipstick on a pig, bec it's worse

A simple changing of the metal Panel color below the windows could have made a big difference on how this looks
 
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