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Dustin William
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A Torontonian Now
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GenerationLee
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flonicky
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rdaner
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Oretta is going to announce a new restaurant/café soon and they have an image of the west side of this building where there is a large retail space.
rdaner
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Taken 28 August. It looks like Oretta is taking the entire space on Simcoe and as the ceilings are~25’ high this will be quite something!
karledice
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Oh wow. Surprised a F&B tenant is taking this. Interesting. Good for Oretta
Rascacielo
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grammin
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evandyk
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Between this, Marbl, Joey King St, and a few others from last year, that's a lot of expense account dining capacity added to the financial district recently.
ProjectEnd
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Black+Blue!
evandyk
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And Blue Bovine! I'm in the financial district five days a week, and while it's really busy on three of those days, I don't know how it can sustain all of these.
Northern Light
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The Globe has just published a new take on this complex by @AlexBozikovic
www.theglobeandmail.com
I think it would be fair to say his view is 'mixed' at best.
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While he clearly has time for some of the elements of the Tower............
He has a few sharp criticisms as well:
"The building’s main façade, on Front Street, is similarly expressionless until you encounter the retained facade of a 1905 warehouse at its east end. That structure’s red-brick corbels and arches are more interesting than anything on this far more expensive, far more elaborate tower."
and
"The tower has the unfortunate quality of much recent corporate architecture: It’s interesting from a distance and boring up close. To make things worse, TD has installed gaudy decorative lighting, flashing the bank’s logo and blaring stripes of LED tinsel down the edges of the building."
I find those critiques fair. I think the grade-level expression of the building is poor, it lacks porosity and feels like its insular rather than interacting w/the surrounding streetscape. I would also agree that the lighting program is just too much.
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At the time of writing he notes a future restaurant space as vacant; though we have since come to learn this will be occupied by Oretta. (Italian Restaurant)
Toronto’s skyline gets a shiny new fortress
TD Terrace strikes a distinctive form among the towers rising in the heart of Toronto’s core
www.theglobeandmail.com
I think it would be fair to say his view is 'mixed' at best.
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While he clearly has time for some of the elements of the Tower............
He has a few sharp criticisms as well:
"The building’s main façade, on Front Street, is similarly expressionless until you encounter the retained facade of a 1905 warehouse at its east end. That structure’s red-brick corbels and arches are more interesting than anything on this far more expensive, far more elaborate tower."
and
"The tower has the unfortunate quality of much recent corporate architecture: It’s interesting from a distance and boring up close. To make things worse, TD has installed gaudy decorative lighting, flashing the bank’s logo and blaring stripes of LED tinsel down the edges of the building."
I find those critiques fair. I think the grade-level expression of the building is poor, it lacks porosity and feels like its insular rather than interacting w/the surrounding streetscape. I would also agree that the lighting program is just too much.
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At the time of writing he notes a future restaurant space as vacant; though we have since come to learn this will be occupied by Oretta. (Italian Restaurant)
innsertnamehere
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the grade experience of this tower is possibly the worst in the financial core. It's incredibly rejective of the human scale and has absolutely nothing to offer.