maestro
Senior Member
the victoria side works for me - can think of far worse that has been built recently or is in the process of being built
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The Tenor (10 Dundas St E, Ent Prop Trust, 10s, Baldwin & Franklin)
ganjavih
Senior Member
I also think the Victoria St side could have been much worse. At least it's clear they put some thought into it, and it doesn't look too bad.
mysteryman
Active Member
some thought yes, but the thought per square foot ratio is quite low.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
It managed to make Jorgenson Hall look positively welcoming.
The project is such a sad tale of wasted potential- imagine a series of projected "boxes" clad in different types of metals (zinc, aluminium, copper, etc) projecting out in varying degree, with glazing in between showing the activity inside. But no, we have to have PenEquity cheap...
AoD
The project is such a sad tale of wasted potential- imagine a series of projected "boxes" clad in different types of metals (zinc, aluminium, copper, etc) projecting out in varying degree, with glazing in between showing the activity inside. But no, we have to have PenEquity cheap...
AoD
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peopleperson
Guest
To those of you relatively happy with the Victoria St. side, how can I put this gently....
ARE YOU FREAKIN' NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????
Had to get that out of my system. Sorry for the shouting. But I feel I'm in Bizarro world ovah hee-yah.
ARE YOU FREAKIN' NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????
Had to get that out of my system. Sorry for the shouting. But I feel I'm in Bizarro world ovah hee-yah.
urbandreamer
recession proof
I wanna see Victoria cladding on a condo someday....
The Victoria side actually looks kinda cool....Dutch almost. The rest? Embarrassing.
The Victoria side actually looks kinda cool....Dutch almost. The rest? Embarrassing.
Tuscani01
Senior Member
Jorgenson isn't that bad... its the Library building thats the bad one.
Venti de Milo
Banned
First post 
Was walking on Yonge St. yesterday...gosh, the hoarding boards are off. Wow, it felt SO WEIRD when I was walking there... I walked there all the time, but first time...felt so strange....
Was walking on Yonge St. yesterday...gosh, the hoarding boards are off. Wow, it felt SO WEIRD when I was walking there... I walked there all the time, but first time...felt so strange....
cassius
Active Member
For me, since the renderings pretty much ignored the Victoria Street side of the building I assumed the worst - that it'd be a flat, blank wall. At least there's something going on there even if it isn't top-notch architecture.
Venti de Milo
Banned
I find the front is not very good, esp the corner at Yonge/Dundas. It's such a important corner, I wish they had designed it better...make something iconic, instead of just one very simple billboard on top. Maybe some moving neon lights or something that can catch people's eyes would have been cool. Oh well... The whole thing is very bad.
They should have knocked down the parking garage, now it looks very odd. If the parking garage's gone...they can have the whole street level section with front store shops from Tim Horton all the way to the bookstore. Second and third floors can be expanded, and become much bigger.
So what about the parking spot? Well, they have below 3 levels, use that as parking stead...connect it to the Dundas Sq parking...connect the 2 to make it one big undergound parking...
Honestly, not alot of people will go all the way down to below 3 level...unless it connects to Eatons...
They should have knocked down the parking garage, now it looks very odd. If the parking garage's gone...they can have the whole street level section with front store shops from Tim Horton all the way to the bookstore. Second and third floors can be expanded, and become much bigger.
So what about the parking spot? Well, they have below 3 levels, use that as parking stead...connect it to the Dundas Sq parking...connect the 2 to make it one big undergound parking...
Honestly, not alot of people will go all the way down to below 3 level...unless it connects to Eatons...
Venti de Milo
Banned
I think those 2 spots are prob for the movie theater...
BTW, re Sear's big ad plan...shouldn't we have a topic for that instead of here? Anyway...I'd not mind if Sear's big ad plan is similar to the one the Bay has, which I think is pretty cool...
VoiceofReality
Active Member
Tuscani01
Senior Member
mysteryman
Active Member
^Great, so Ryerson is going to have advertisements facing Devonian Square advertising what--itself to it's students?
VoiceofReality
Active Member
^Great, so Ryerson is going to have advertisements facing Devonian Square advertising what--itself to it's students?[/QUOTE]
I guess that will be up to their administrators... IMO if they used it to feature student work / projects / competitions from applicable faculties it could add value to the streetscape.
I guess that will be up to their administrators... IMO if they used it to feature student work / projects / competitions from applicable faculties it could add value to the streetscape.