Toronto Concord Canada House | 231.97m | 74s | Concord Adex | Arcadis

[someMidTowner]

Should I lower my expectations and expect the typical glass box?

I don't think that Concord would hold a design competition and end up with a simple glass box, unless the objective was to find the cheapest design...which I doubt they would need to hold a competition for.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Can he exceed RAW's design? That was outstanding.

It wasn't, really. This is excellent news.

 

[jje1000]

Should I lower my expectations and expect the typical glass box?

Yes, prepare for the box.

 

[vegeta_skyline]

Pretty sure Flux was just doing the ol' throwing a name out there routine.
And by golly, everyone's bought it like it was the gospel truth!

 

[Red October]

Ugh.. so instead of RAW's good design we'll get an oversized Jenga block. Yaaayyy!

It's almost like they're trying to make this city boring.

 

[UrbanAffair]

Aw well, I would have prefered someone who would build something more out of the box, or at least something where a tower evolves in some sense as it rises instead of being uniform the entire time, but I will bite my tongue and hope for great things even if it is a false hope.

 

[Torontovibe]

Cityplace needs some curves and colour. (oh yeah, and some RETAIL)

 

[cruzin4u]

I'm sure urbandreamer will be happy

 

[someMidTowner]

So do we get any more info or are we just speculating based on this post:

Peter Clews of AA will design the new Signature tower.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Can he exceed RAW's design? That was outstanding.

Ugh.. so instead of RAW's good design we'll get an oversized Jenga block. Yaaayyy!

It's almost like they're trying to make this city boring.

What was so good about the RAW proposal in the first place?

 

[Automation Gallery]

What was so good about the RAW proposal in the first place?

It wasnt a typical Toronto box.

 

[buildup]

What was so good about the RAW proposal in the first place?

What wasn't good about it?

 

[flonicky]

Cityplace needs some curves and colour. (oh yeah, and some RETAIL)

No kidding. Cityplace at street level is a pretty weak experience.

 

[buildup]

What was so good about the RAW proposal in the first place?

If this isn't up to your standard - what were you envisioning?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roxxstarr/7158611273/

 

[interchange42]

I love that those for whom aA is not exactly their favourite architect, and who go on ad nauseum about the Toronto Box, ignore the fact that aA's Ãce with its disciplined curves and fantastic cladding is arguably the most exciting complex going skyward right now, that aA's Market Wharf, forced into being a slab by the height-haunted St. Lawrence neighbourhood types, is despite that looking more and more amazing with every floor of its alternating wave pattern balcony glass getting installed, that aA's Theatre Park with its diagonal banding promises to be one of the most eye-catching designs on the Downtown skyline, that aA's Sixty Colbourne plan features unique, deep orange textural framing on its podium and a richly detailed laneway arch at street level… and on and on, project after project. We are far richer for having aA making a major contribution to our city.

Those who accuse aA of doing nothing more than "boring" boxes are either being willfully disingenuous, and are therefore trolling, or are simply so prejudiced that they are blind to what is really going on.

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