Fuzion King West Condominium (Urbancorp, 15s, Tact)

[urbandreamer]

It's gonna make a fantastic rental building. TACT's aesthetic perhaps is Toronto's closest spiritual successor to 1960s slab apartment building architecture. Which is why they need to work in Waterloo.

 

[urbandreamer]

25 December 2012: Final result: Not working for me.

 

[Torontovibe]

One big mass of grey, on both sides and probably every other new condo in the area too. (sad, very grey and sad)

Toronto - the city of perpetual winter

 

[Automation Gallery]

One big mass of grey, on both sides and probably every other new condo in the area too. (sad, very grey and sad)

Toronto - the city of perpetual winter

Hahaha, well this sure is no Barcelona

 

[Towered]

25 December 2012: Final result: Not working for me.

Agreed. It looks especially cheap up close. Somebody told me this cluster of buildings houses a lot of whores and pimps.

 

[AlbertC]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roxxstarr/8675120755/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/roxxstarr/8675117531/

 

[greenleaf]

It looks like a brutalist building where they reclad everything but the balconies.

 

[taal]

Saw this in person ...

This is actually a pretty good looking building ! The surroundings aren't helping but I bet if it was located elsewhere it would get more praise.
The orange strip on the bottom is a very nice touch as well ... really like the precast balconies as well ...

 

[urbandreamer]

19 August 2013: I checked out this "working class" functional rental building. Again it's a great update on 1960's rental slabs. Like them, it has problems with street level integration, esp on the King frontage:

Toronto we got a problem: This is a streetcar strip yet we get this awkward planter?

Definitely not cool: