Filip
Senior Member
The business building is the single biggest disaster that could have happened to that corner. Sure, it has three forgettable stores, but the building? Brown precast, slitted triangular windows and some sort of faux-white glass? Come on, I could draw that something better using crayola. As a tenant or maybe even a co-developer, Ryerson had enough say to put a stop to that disaster. Originally the building was to use stone, but no, that's too expensive (and not for CF).
The arts building, same thing, according to forumers who saw the preliminary design, it was severly dumbed down, and now ressembles a tacked on glass box with the gimmicky glass hallway to nowhere. Coffee shops do not make it de facto an addition tourban fabric, leasing out the space to retailers, however might.
Your bias is showing, Ryerson could build a giant concrete spaceship with three windows, but as long as there's a cafe in the base it's ok. Not everything deals with how it meets the street, it has to also meet the eyes.
The arts building, same thing, according to forumers who saw the preliminary design, it was severly dumbed down, and now ressembles a tacked on glass box with the gimmicky glass hallway to nowhere. Coffee shops do not make it de facto an addition tourban fabric, leasing out the space to retailers, however might.
Your bias is showing, Ryerson could build a giant concrete spaceship with three windows, but as long as there's a cafe in the base it's ok. Not everything deals with how it meets the street, it has to also meet the eyes.