Toronto 2 St Thomas | 80.46m | 26s | KingSett Capital | Hariri Pontarini

[Edward Skira]

The north wall is quite the mistake.

 

[innsertnamehere]

and entirely a design choice as it is well above the 5.5m separation distance from the property line. Very odd.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

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[Student99]

I know the base was supposed to be required to match the McKinsey building next door... well it doesn't look like it. I wonder if they were contractually obligated to. The brick somewhat matches, but the balconies and windows make it look totally different.

 

[steveve]

The north wall is quite the mistake.

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You've captured my 2 biggest gripes about this: the north wall, and that it obstructs One St. Thomas. Aside from that, this is not a bad looking project at all. There's a great, albeit expensive, trio of residential buildings at this intersection (77 Charles being the other).

 

[ADRM]

You've captured my 2 biggest gripes about this: the north wall, and that it obstructs One St. Thomas.

I'd add the window wall and built form to that list, along with the fact that the shorter northern structure looks like the architects/developers forgot they had an extra piece of land and had already thrown out the designs for the tower and tried to hastily reproduce them from memory.

TBH I think its only redeeming quality is the stone -- I think it's slightly better than "garbage" overall, and certainly unbecoming to its close proximity neighbours, being not only the res buildings you pointed out, but also 7 St. Thomas, the Windsor Arms, and McKinsey.

 

[Roy G Biv]

Having just come back from Barcelona, not exactly a city synonymous with new and modern development, this project looks like garbage. Even Barcelona's insignificant new builds are far more interesting architecturally then the stuff we are building in "rich" areas. In Toronto, the prime motivation behind building form is capitalism, and therein lies the problem.

 

[Gphorce]

This building is like that annoying guy who photobombs your wedding photo, if 1 St Thomas and the McKinsey building are the beautiful couple and 2 St Thomas is the drunk cousin in law.

 

[Benito]

Hoarding coming down.

 

[greenleaf]

From Vic you can see blue tinted glass on top of the midrise portion. A huge aesthetic mistake that clashes with all the rest of the glass.

 

[Student99]

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OMG competely ruins what was once a stellar view of 1 St Thomas!!!

 

[maestro]

Having just come back from Barcelona, not exactly a city synonymous with new and modern development, this project looks like garbage. Even Barcelona's insignificant new builds are far more interesting architecturally then the stuff we are building in "rich" areas. In Toronto, the prime motivation behind building form is capitalism, and therein lies the problem.

The motivation should be similar in Barcelona for developers. The difference will be in the purchaser's expectations and the municipality's vision there. Toronto doesn't have a vision or at least one that isn't amendable on a day to day basis. You have many more investors in Toronto that will never step foot in their units.

 

[vatche]

Interesting... only rectangular grey boxes are going up with no architectural creativity whatsoever.
Why is that ?

 

[maestro]

Because it's not true?