Eight Cumberland

Developer: Great Gulf, Phantom Developments
Architect: architects—Alliance
  
Address: 8 Cumberland St, Toronto
Category: Residential (Condo), Commercial (Retail)
Status: CompleteCompletion: 2024
Height: 558 ft / 170.00 mStoreys: 51 storeys
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Toronto Eight Cumberland | 170m | 51s | Great Gulf | a—A

vatche said:
Why don’t they add angles, dimension, a mix of material to these buildings? They just go straight up. Very boring.
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One thing I've always admired about the classic Art Deco skyscraper is the three-tier massing, with the three sections getting narrower as you go up like a mountain. By contrast, seeing a big rectangle with the same cladding pattern repeated from top to bottom can be boring and uninspiring, unless it's an exceptional design like the TD Centre.
 
Amare said:
Great Gulf is not the same firm we all knew and love back ~10 years ago, and their recent projects reflect that change.
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BloorMan said:
That's for sure!!
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Development firms are businesses comprised of employees. When folks leave, priorities change and the results in this industry are more visually apparent than others.
 
ProjectEnd said:
Development firms are businesses comprised of employees. When folks leave, priorities change and the results in this industry are more visually apparent than others.
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More so the leadership which today seems far more concerned with penny-pinching with lesser materials and design work, compared to the previous leadership who actually gave a damn.
 
Amare said:
More so the leadership which today seems far more concerned with penny-pinching with lesser materials and design work, compared to the previous leadership who actually gave a damn.
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Most likely it's the same leadership, but cost of materials and labour have skyrocketed so they do what good leadership does to keep a project going.
 
Obsidian said:
Most likely it's the same leadership, but cost of materials and labour have skyrocketed so they do what good leadership does to keep a project going.
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While that maybe a reality, I'm not sure it should be used as a convenient excuse.
 
@Johnny Au
Nice shots... special thanks to the sky in your shots (and Benito's).

And a tiny bit of applause for the job this is doing to block the south elevation of 1 Yorkville.
 
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Just by looking at the building, it's very hard to tell if this is a condo in Yorkville or some cookie-cutter condo in Brampton.
 
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