dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
Terrific lobby photographs casaguy, it's beautiful. Is it a lighting effect or do a couple of the wood panels toward the left seem water damaged?
JayBee
Senior Member
Beautiful lobby....such a difference between Casa and BSN.
casaguy
Senior Member
Good eye. I didn't notice in person... i'm thinking though it must just be a light reflection.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
The colour balance between the pale wood panels and the elevated blue room is effective. Nothing screams, and the slightly warm blue is muted and subtle. And with such an extensively glazed lobby - the residents get their very own City Room - the minimal pot and spot lighting makes sense. I suppose it makes sense for the whole tower, really - all that natural light, especially in the short winter days, will help keep the hydro bills down.
simply Dan
Active Member
...to offset the hot and sticky summer days when A/C will be running at full tilt to battle the sun, as with almost every glass condo in the city.
cdr108
Senior Member
might not be so bad for Casa as its' glass lobby faces north
simply Dan
Active Member
SP!RE
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The mullions take away a lot from the lobby for me. Sigh. Nice inside though, and better at night.
dventura
Active Member
I feel ignorant asking, but what are "mullions"?
SP!RE
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Well I use the term loosely, but it often refers to those metal caps that run along the gaps where windows meet up... in a sense, window frames, if you will.
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I like how they define the lobby as a vertical grid, and how that grid plays off of the horizontal grid defined by the wood panels:
http://s770.photobucket.com/albums/xx341/scullydog259/Casa3_Jan31-10.jpg
SP!RE
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I just see a whole lot of lines at different distances that don't line up, and messy reflections of everything outside. I guess my expectations were too high-- I was expecting a City Room (referring to Four Seasons Centre) perhaps 
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Well, I think it's their version of the City Room. Or maybe their version of an auto showroom - I could see a car set up there in the blue room. Or their version of the Galleria Italia - sculptures in the blue room, maybe. Whatever it is, it has antecedents in the glazed lobbies of numerous Modernist apartment buildings around town, dating back to the '50s.
casaguy
Senior Member
Some views from the upper floors of Casa. Will do some better quality shots soon.
steveve
Senior Member
Among the best views in the city ^^^^ seriously.