JayBee
Senior Member
Last thing I'd call that kitchen is "cheap".
Last thing I'd call that kitchen is "cheap".
tomms
Active Member
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yyzer
Senior Member
Best shot of Crystal Blue, ever! 
Build Up
Active Member
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Tulse
Senior Member
It's a great shot, but any building would look fantastic from such a dramatic angle.
steveve
Senior Member
CrystalBlu is seeing finishing touches applied to its exterior at the moment, with the ceiling above the entrance being completed, and the columns being clad.
Meanwhile, there is trouble with some of the crystals. Many new buildings suffer some vandalism while under construction, and this happy face stick-figure seems about as benign as vandalism gets (and it will be easy to remove)...
but these two crystals will present a bit more trouble to fix, as both have been hit and cracked. Can the glass inserts be replaced from behind, or will the grout have to be chiselled out from the front?
While the crystals have not garnered universal acceptance on UrbanToronto, we only want the best for Balmuto Street, and that means a CrystalBlu free of deficiencies where it meets the sidewalk. We hope the building's unique namesake decorations will be repaired without marring the stone into which they have been inserted, and that they will no longer be targeted by vandals as the building occupies.
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Meanwhile, there is trouble with some of the crystals. Many new buildings suffer some vandalism while under construction, and this happy face stick-figure seems about as benign as vandalism gets (and it will be easy to remove)...
but these two crystals will present a bit more trouble to fix, as both have been hit and cracked. Can the glass inserts be replaced from behind, or will the grout have to be chiselled out from the front?
While the crystals have not garnered universal acceptance on UrbanToronto, we only want the best for Balmuto Street, and that means a CrystalBlu free of deficiencies where it meets the sidewalk. We hope the building's unique namesake decorations will be repaired without marring the stone into which they have been inserted, and that they will no longer be targeted by vandals as the building occupies.
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whatever
Senior Member
I saw those cracked pieces of glass awhile ago and was wondering how they're going to change them out. It looks like there's a fairly generous grout line running around the glass so they might be able to chip the glass out from the front, get a replacement in, and regrout it without it looking too bad
steveve
Senior Member
If you ask me, those cracked blue pieces ("crystals") actually make it look more realistic! I mean, crystals aren't perfect right?
yyzer
Senior Member
Crystal Blu from street level - still not quite finished, although there have been people living there for several months now....
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
One of the odder recent design conceits - that someone was in the act of liberating the vitreous blue building that apparently lurks beneath the skin of this one by chipping away at the surface, but gave up and moved on to other things - yet the general half-heartedness of said faux vandalism as artistic statement rather suits the building as a whole.
gristle
Senior Member
I really hate those crystals.
This could have been a reasonable building - nothing special, but nothing gawdawful either - just middling. But those stupid crystals just make the stone look like crap.
This could have been a reasonable building - nothing special, but nothing gawdawful either - just middling. But those stupid crystals just make the stone look like crap.
yyzer
Senior Member
agree...it certainly is odd looking...
denct
New Member
The crystals are utterly tacky. Looks like a rock climbing wall on acid.
steveve
Senior Member
the crystals are okay, it's just the positioning/arrangement that sucks. if you're gonna arrange them randomly, make it look good, but there's no balance here.