AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
No it wasn't - there was no steel for building during WWI. Also, the plan that it was part of wasn't developed until after the war.
The massing is good. Also, to overcome the akwardness of the site is to be commended. However, it barely resembles the much more striking rendering that was proposed and is loaded with cheap finishes everywhere. As some on here call it..."the skyscraper that Home Depot built." Harry's abysmal branding and signage for the project is the final insult.Admittedly I don't know much about the development, but I personally like the building. At least from a strictly aesthetic sense, from seeing it whenever I'm walking that area. What's wrong with it?
No it wasn't - there was no steel for building during WWI. Also, the plan that it was part of wasn't developed until after the war.
Just like the old TD building that was thankfully destroyed for the TD Centre. A run of the mill pastiche of historical styles was replaced by something unique, designed by the greatest architect of our time.
Yeah! Good riddance!
The massing is good. Also, to overcome the akwardness of the site is to be commended. However, it barely resembles the much more striking rendering that was proposed and is loaded with cheap finishes everywhere. As some on here call it..."the skyscraper that Home Depot built." Harry's abysmal branding and signage for the project is the final insult.
I'd take this over the entire TD Centre.
Regrettable as the demolition may be, statements like this only fuel the APs of this world...
AP, between blithely dismissing the demolished Bank of Toronto and blithely offering false history, I'd have to say you're one heck of a historically ignorant/historically contemptuous jerk.