Urban Shocker
Doyenne
PE - way to kick us when we are down! this city is so lacking in flare.
... and accurate spelling and punctuation.
PE - way to kick us when we are down! this city is so lacking in flare.
Behnisch Architekten has come calling 'round these here parts: they were a key part of the team that created CCBR at UofT. So yeah, we do lack some flare, agreed, totally, but we're not off the map completely. Don't forget about the good things we've got!
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Here's a building with flare, just like the best in 70s trouser fashion
It wasn't an anti-Grace comment per se, so much as a yok on it being a bell-bottomed building from the age of the bell-bottom.
That said, Grace *was* one of the more notoriously loathed 70s SOM buildings, if only because of the arbitrary streetline violation alongside Bryant Park, i.e. one of those "towers as narcissistic objects" which sparked the Postmodern counterrevolution...
that is quite a cantilever!
more angles on the bottom glazing too.
a bit of contrast to the box.