Toronto CampusOne Student Residence (was University Place) | 79.85m | 25s | Knightstone | Diamond Schmitt

[PMT]

December 23:

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Would the 11.61% of UT readers who voted for this vertical prison as one of the best buildings completed in 2017 please report for a mandatory eye exam.

http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2018/01/urbantoronto-readers-select-best-buildings-2017

 

[interchange42]

It makes me wonder if the word went out at Knightstone to vote! vote! vote!

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[am29]

Does the property to the East of this have any developmental potential? I suppose if the East and West sides of this get blocked off by better developments this won't looks as bad because the front of this building is alright..

 

[Automation Gallery]

Does the property to the East of this have any developmental potential? I suppose if the East and West sides of this get blocked off by better developments this won't looks as bad because the front of this building is alright..

Not much to the east with the public library there, but to the west that corner is ripe for development

but then again that west facade is not as ugly as the other side..lol

 

[torontologist]

If only they could get some public art on that east facade...

 

[M.R.Victor]

A student residence which could hardly hope to break a Top 10 Most Attractive Urban Prisons list, Campus One is nevertheless a very necessary part of downtown TO's student housing infrastructure. Of note is the interaction between the otherwise clunky mass and it's smaller-scaled surroundings, particularly the nod to the brown brick building directly to the east.

Photo update from earlier today.

 

[ponyboy]

that blank wall on the east will probably get an advertisement. It is similar in size and proportion to that building at Bloor and Huron that gets lots of Ads.

 

[Miscreant]

Pictures are misleading...

Looks far worse in person.

 

[junctionist]

It's sterile yet imposing like a bad contemporary hospital design.

 

[ponyboy]

as bad as that west view looks now, it will be completely obscured by another building going up on the corner.

 

[interchange42]

as bad as that west view looks now, it will be completely obscured by another building going up on the corner.

Such is my earnest prayer.

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[Automation Gallery]

Such is my earnest prayer.
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Hey, they thought this was too big and didn't want @ Bloor and Dundas, bring it here...

 

[ADRM]

Hey, they thought this was too big and didn't want @ Bloor and Dundas, bring it here...
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Oy, but that's also too ugly for here (or anywhere).

When you've got a pimple, you're not looking to cover it with another pimple.

 

[Automation Gallery]

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Such is my earnest prayer.

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Oy, but that's also too ugly for here (or anywhere).

When you've got a pimple, you're not looking to cover it with another pimple.

Oh well look around, ..be careful for what you wish