Liberty Village pedestrian link

[smably]

Glass is up. My photo is not great -- the starburst pattern is a bit more prominent IRL.

Only noticed the glazed brick when I saw this in person today. Between this and The Plant, I hope it's the beginning of a trend.

 

[daptive]

Glass is up. My photo is not great -- the starburst pattern is a bit more prominent IRL.

Only noticed the glazed brick when I saw this in person today. Between this and The Plant, I hope it's the beginning of a trend.

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Looks significantly better than what I was imagining

 

[JamesKoole]

Story from workers on site is that the opening will be delayed due to delays getting the elevators delivered. The blame is being placed on Covid, but had they designed something that didn't need elevators...

 

[mdu]

Story from workers on site is that the opening will be delayed due to delays getting the elevators delivered. The blame is being placed on Covid, but had they designed something that didn't need elevators...

AODA requirements more likely.

 

[AlbertC]

July 19, 2020

 

[Allandale25]

 

[AlbertC]

Aug 16, 2020

 

[dad pad]

I'm not an archetect but I think it would have looked better if they put focus on the structures and minimized the pathway, perhaps using an all glass design for that. It kind of uses the design language of the condos in the area which is kind of cool but it doesn't go far enough imo

 

[ProjectEnd]

This thing is *so* gross. It's an unfathomable truism among many architects today that "more materials = better".

 

[Towered]

The architecture confuses me - it looks like something that was built in the early 70's and then partly reclad in the late 80's.

 

[smably]

I'm also confused. Is this... done?

 

[Irishmonk]

Looks like it was designed by the same committee that came up with the duck-billed platypus. I really hope they can at least leave the muscular concrete stairs free from the wretched brick and spandrel that, for whatever bizarre reason, cloak the nearby surfaces.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Clearly inspired by the dreck to the south. Terrible.

 

[Amare]

It fits the Liberty Village neighborhood perfectly and aptly: jumbled & an incoherent mess.

But hey, at least there's finally going to be another pedestrian access point.

 

[ADRM]

It's not only gross looking and not optimally functional (the ole ramp vs. stairs debate), but it also strikes me as perhaps borderline dangerous; there are large parts of it that are nearly or completely opaque and it just generally seems to have terrible visibility into it.

Nothing about any aspect of its design makes me want to use it.