Toronto 700 Bay Street | 94.79m | 32s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle

I know it's a monster, but for some reason I don't mind it. It doesn't pretend to be something it's not, and it is a truly mixed-use tower designed to be as profitable as possible. The added-on chunks and mix of uses remind me of when I used to play Sim Tower.
 
Ottawan said:
I know it's a monster, but for some reason I don't mind it. It doesn't pretend to be something it's not, and it is a truly mixed-use tower designed to be as profitable as possible. The added-on chunks and mix of uses remind me of when I used to play Sim Tower.
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There's a spiritual successor to SimTower: it's Project Highrise.
 
CanadianNational said:
I've been out of the city for a bit, and I used to live near this building:

OMG- what a grotesque shock. I always thought LuCliff place was damn ugly, but against all odds, this is much, much worse. Even if they had simply taken their cue from the rote '70's 'oatmeal panel' facade of the original it would be a better result.
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Or to have continued the new white cladding on the rest of it. Either way a better blending would definitely have looked better.however what is, Is!
 
July 26, 2020

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I'm sure I'm in a minority, but I kind of like how jauntily awkward the whole thing is. By no objective measure is it attractive, but I appreciate how the volumes are so (jarringly) incoherent. I wouldn't want a city full of this, but I prefer it to another monotone reclad.
 
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