Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence (ACCE) (D+S, ?,?, 6s?)

[ProjectEnd]

All that pedestrian colour is just pandering to the spectacle-ites...

 

[Observer Walt]

Interesting images, but could you provide us with a bit of context? Where is this located, and who is building it? Is it under way, or just at the proposal stage? Thanks.

 

[urbandreamer]

^http://www.algonquincollege.com/trades/ne_ev.htm

 

[waterloowarrior]

D+S also recently designed this project for the University of Ottawa (currently under construction)

 

[urbandreamer]

^Damn that's good looking! Perhaps the French-Canadian influence in Ottawa results in bolder D+S architecture compared to Toronto?

That flat iron corner would look good at that Liberty Village condo (by Can Alfa) which I loathe so much.

 

[Urban Shocker]

D+S's appropriate use of a variety of colours emphasizes the materiality of the Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence as a building, as well as the idea that a variety of different trades are taught there.

 

[ProjectEnd]

But why not do it all in grey then? As we all know, grey is the most colourful of colours and we wouldn't want any of those trades to feel left out or undermine the 'materiality' of the building, now would we?

 

[Urban Shocker]

Because the building is more multicultural than melting pot and expresses the differences as well as the whole. As you can see, the grey is the neutral ground that sets them off.

 

[ProjectEnd]

So all of D+S other grey work is melting pot? Pretty damning inference there Shocker.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Students of the different construction trades need not feel left out because the building isn't all grey, since the colours are symbolic of variety and how it contributes to the whole.

 

[ProjectEnd]

But the Women's College Hospital treats many different disorders, diseases and maladies and yet the dreadful building which D+S have envisioned for it is of uniform colour. What magnanimous gesture symbolizes the unification of several disparate medical fields in that hulking mass?

 

[Urban Shocker]

But this building isn't the Women's College Hospital .

 

[ProjectEnd]

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[Urban Shocker]

A friend of yours?

 

[ProjectEnd]

Well we're hardly acquainted, but I guess I could consider you a friend of sorts.