Benito
Senior Member
That's really nice.
You may be right that it didn't make sense, but "obvious", really? Care to describe what was obviously wrong with the design?That was obvious. No, nothing to do with it being too good for Toronto. Just didn't make a whole lot of sense as a functional structure.
What seems more likely to me than a bait-and-switch is that Tridel asked a number of architects for proposals for the site, that ODA was one of the respondents, and that they published their proposal. I doubt that Tridel wanted them to publish their proposal; developers tend to normally only want to broadcast the winners of any competition, with the Absolute World one several years ago now having been the notable exception to that rule.
ODA may have won, they may not have.
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There was also RAW who leaked the renders of their competition-losing design for Cityplace's Signature Towers. Turns out we were the losers though.