Toronto 88 Scott Street | 203.9m | 58s | Concert | P + S / IBI

[Jacob Laponointe]

April 8, 2016

25 floors up. Prepping the 26th floor.

Mind If i use this as my wallpaper? It's beautiful. You should water mark your pictures.

 

[someMidTowner]

This afternoon:

 

[Razz]

Mind If i use this as my wallpaper? It's beautiful. You should water mark your pictures.

Thanks Jacob. By all means, feel free to use the picture for your own purposes. Cheers.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

The first sign of balcony glass?

 

[G.L.17]

Making an impact looking south:

 

[skycandy]

 

[interchange42]

The sections with precast between every floor look 256% better than the bits where the precast only runs vertically.

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[greenleaf]

Suddenly imagining that ribbed motif from the panels on the heritage building on the new precast tower panels and thinking that could have been a nice detail.

 

[wolfewood]

Suddenly imagining that ribbed motif from the panels on the heritage building on the new precast tower panels and thinking that could have been a nice detail.

And that's my issue in general with historicist buildings. They're perpetually disappointing, even when they aren't bad. It seems like that ribbed motif would have been a simple detail that could've been done without breaking the bank but it wasn't even considered. Modernist buildings might be dull but firms like aA very obviously pay attention to the little things whereas a building like 88 Scott (which isn't bad, might I note) just throws these things together. When this is considered good, it says a lot about the lack of attention to detail in my opinion.

 

[TheKingEast]

And that's my issue in general with historicist buildings. They're perpetually disappointing, even when they aren't bad. It seems like that ribbed motif would have been a simple detail that could've been done without breaking the bank but it wasn't even considered. Modernist buildings might be dull but firms like aA very obviously pay attention to the little things whereas a building like 88 Scott (which isn't bad, might I note) just throws these things together. When this is considered good, it says a lot about the lack of attention to detail in my opinion.

Care to provide some examples?

 

[maestro]

Again? If you haven't gotten it yet, you never will. Design is not your thing. It's all good.

 

[wolfewood]

Care to provide some examples?

Architecture isn't my really my thing (I'm here for the urban issues first, building design second) but look at the U Condos development and @Benito's recent posts showing the continuation of the black band motif from the balconies to the ground. There's no need for that and I imagine continuing the black bands below the balconies was probably an extra expense but it completes the design nicely. Or Karma and the slight indent/bump out at the midpoint. That one is less attention to detail as much as it is an interesting design choice but again, aA makes the effort whereas firms like P&S just throw stuff together. I get that aA can be bland and simple but I'd rather simple but well-designed and considered towers than a pile of dreck and the occasionally acceptable tower (since let's be frank, the Delta and, to a lesser extent, 88 Scott are rarities with P&S, not the norm).

 

[TheKingEast]

Again? If you haven't gotten it yet, you never will. Design is not your thing. It's all good.

Who is this directed to?

 

[Youranthony1]

From today.

 

[someMidTowner]

Today: