Toronto CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
A sign of good cladding is that not only does look great under any light, but changes to reflect it in interesting ways and sometimes breathtaking ways...
...actually, that's sign of really amazing cladding come to think of it!
...actually, that's sign of really amazing cladding come to think of it!
evandyk
Senior Member
I like watching the skyline, and post a lot of photos here, but my wife couldn't care less mostly. Yesterday, she told me there was a very nice looking building going up that looked like it was somewhere along lower Yonge St. She told me it was "the one with ovals".
Moments before I took the photo posted above I asked her which was the building she liked, and she told me it has to be the one with the diamonds. I wonder what kind of light put ovals in her mind.
3Dementia
Senior Member
^ not sure about the oval-ation, but diam
monds can only mean you got sum shopping to do (btw, is her name Lucy?).
monds can only mean you got sum shopping to do (btw, is her name Lucy?).daptive
Active Member
ushahid
Senior Member
thats a decent logo.
travis3000
Active Member
The pictures just keep getting nicer and nicer with this tower. Now this is just my opinion, but to me this is the nicest tower to go up in Canada in the last 25 years. It even beats out Telus Sky in Calgary, and anything built in Toronto since at least Scotia Plaza.
junctionist
Senior Member
In terms of architecture, these towers might always be held back by their strange and slabbish proportions. The Bow is arguably more elegant, even if it is derivative of Toronto's New City Hall to some extent.
travis3000
Active Member
That's your opinion. I think The Bow is nice but it just doesn't have the elegance to it. The white triangle lines are too prominent and make it look tacky and cheapen the look to me.
CIBC is more sleek, modern, and will photograph a million times better than The Bow due to the shimmering diamond facade mixed with the lighting features planned for them. The diamonds are more subtle and shine with the light. Instead of being painted white like The Bow.
But skyscrapers are subjective, we all see different things in them.
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3Dementia
Senior Member
Have never joined the love-in for The Bow. Besides the aforementioned new City Hall on steriods reference, imo it always looks waaay too monolithic in the cowtown skyline (a good design in renders, not so much in pics).
Otis_YVR
Active Member
I find my attention keeps getting drawn to this, which looks like some kind of mechanical building that will not be contained within either the short or long fins. It’s noticeable from a number of angles.
kali
Active Member
^there's no glazing planned to cover that bit?
Razz
Senior Member
Judging from the renderings, I suspect the gap in glazing is a deliberate design element and will remain that way, but I fully expect that the visible concrete pillbox on the roof will be appropriately camouflaged in due course.
3Dementia
Senior Member
Pretty sure "the pillbox" is a (lavishly-decorated) suite that Hines is giving to Wilkinson Eyre (a deserved thanx). Interestingly, the cost over-run of this was covertly funded/negotiated by a group of over-paid local photographers (including razz I think).
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
It's probably an outhouse for the poor sap who gets stuck working on the roof. Flush twice, it's long way down to the basement...