Perchance
New Member
This is quite an improvement over what the building used to look like.
Toronto 180 Wellington West | ?m | 12s | Stantec
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Northern Magus
Active Member
If the mayor were a building, he might be this.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Not a chance.
Red Mars
Senior Member
Pics taken July 12, 2013
jje1000
Senior Member
So they managed to make an existing building even worse. Even some colour/tonal differences would have prevented this from happening.
I like that the cladding turns the corner in that top pic, giving the illusion of some serious depth to the material.
Otherwise… we certainly have cornered the market on gray in this city.
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Otherwise… we certainly have cornered the market on gray in this city.
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TOareaFan
Superstar
There is a lot to dislike about this building (as there was, really, before).....one real positive (IMO), though, is how the building now meets the street on Wellington.
Previously it was a very forbidding looking vault-like structure that was not at all street friendly. At least, now, there is a semblance of a welcoming lobby and a ground floor which looks like it will have some activity in it that will be evident from the street.
Previously it was a very forbidding looking vault-like structure that was not at all street friendly. At least, now, there is a semblance of a welcoming lobby and a ground floor which looks like it will have some activity in it that will be evident from the street.
Torontovibe
Senior Member
And PLEASE let that be a trend, that comes to an end soon.
TOareaFan
Superstar
Looks like the lobby eatery is a Tim Horton's nothing animates a street in Canada better than a timmies
innsertnamehere
Superstar
simcoe frontage is still crap, though all the crappy sidewalks on simcoe got replaced in the last couple of days, so even simcoe has a bit of an improvement.
officedweller
Senior Member
AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
If I may use the words of a great man, it's "something close 2 nothing, but different than the day before".
Stratford1
New Member
What a waste! What were they thinking: Ok we have an all-brown drab outdated building, so let's rip it all off and start fresh! Yeah! Let's do it.
I know, let's recover it in dull drab gray tiles, with a hint other gray - for more grayness. Adding some black along the entranceway. Surely, in 20 years time, they will look back at our work and say My, those Torontonians and their forward-thinking all-gray buildings! Ahead of their time.
Their children will sing songs of praise.
Even a 1st year design student would have had better ideas! This building disgusts me.
I know, let's recover it in dull drab gray tiles, with a hint other gray - for more grayness. Adding some black along the entranceway. Surely, in 20 years time, they will look back at our work and say My, those Torontonians and their forward-thinking all-gray buildings! Ahead of their time.
Their children will sing songs of praise.
Even a 1st year design student would have had better ideas! This building disgusts me.
One Nut Kruk
Banned
This building is best enjoyed, in person, with a cup of Earl Grey Tea.
000
Senior UT Member
The signage went up recently:
