Toronto Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

[Riseth]

The cladding is fine for what it is. Keep in mind the vast majority of people won't even notice the repeating panels and there's enough variance in the location of them. Not to mention the folded patterns immediately grab your attention making them even less noticeable.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

I am not sure why any repeating pattern would be an issue here. They are certainly making hard to tell if this is the case…

…I will always look at something like this with this degree of calibre as a method to the madness here, IMO.

 

[Contra]

One thing I can guarantee is my drawings will have repeated patterns

 

[skycandy]

Just did some rough math….had a bit of time on my hands.

So, I counted the number of individual panels installed on the south and west sides thus far (not the east since it’s partially hidden). The total is 105. If, in that previous observation of repeated patterns, we add them up…there are 4 orange, 3 purple, 2 red, 2 green, 2 blue, and 2 white. That’s 15. So, as an example, the orange type has 3 repeats, the purple 2 repeats, etc. So, of the 105 panels, there are 9 repeats (3+2+1+1+1+1). 9/105 suggests about 9% of the panels are repeated. And some of the repeats aren’t even on the same face currently (I’m looking at you white and purple) (although presumably that will change as more cladding rises). And maybe that 9% changes as it rises? Who knows. And I’m sure the starchitect himself had a ‘say’ in this: how to optimize a balance between less costly with best undulating pattern while minimizing repeating patterns.

Considering so many panels are unique, this registers as a non-issue, at least for me. Obviously as keen skyscraper enthusiasts here, some may notice. But I’m sure the average passerby wouldn’t even ponder this. And even if 5% of the passerby’s are skyscraper enthusiasts, what number of them would stop and start comparing panel shapes….probably a minute number.

For me the silver ribbons undulate seamlessly (no, I’m not talking about the tiny seam between panels), left and right, up and down. Like a ginormous Christmas gift wrapped in glossy silver ribbons. Loving every aspect of this.

 

[DarwinP]

I don’t know who in their sane realistic reasonable mind expected a skyscraper of this size to be cladded in fully unique/ non repeatable panels. That would not make sense financially and would be a waste to increase the cost when vast majority of people see the overall look of the building, the overall visual impact and design. It doesn’t not take away from the bold and unique design. People are not sitting there studying every panel and trying to find the repeated one. That’s something only architecture geeks would do.

 

[travis3000]

I don’t know who in their sane realistic reasonable mind expected a skyscraper of this size to be cladded in fully unique/ non repeatable panels. That would not make sense financially and would be a waste to increase the cost when vast majority of people see the overall look of the building, the overall visual impact and design. It doesn’t not take away from the bold and unique design. People are not sitting there studying every panel and trying to find the repeated one. That’s something only architecture geeks would do.

You could make a super tall tower of pure diamond and gold and I can guarantee there would be people on this site criticizing it. Everybody is going to have an opinion. And the people on here in no way represent the average person.

 

[C-mac]

You could make a super tall tower of pure diamond and gold and I can guarantee there would be people on this site criticizing it.

hahaha ! so true.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Unfortunately, the repetition is already apparent. You just don't see it easily yet, in the vertical panels, because the first floor has taller vertical panels than the floor above. Once they move to the 3rd and 4th floors that use these panels, it will become way more visible. I am guessing they have 12-16 vertical panels and horizontal panels.

Or maybe it's me. I'm cursed. I've done web design almost 27 years now and I have had to play this modular game on dozens of heavily textured webpages.

I almost feel bad to point it out because you (generally) won't be able to unsee it but it's there. Sadly, this is what I see when I look at anything like this, my mind instantly looks for the repetition and there is even more but these are the obvious ones I picked up right away...

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Honestly I didn't mind the repetition - the overall arrangement is random enough even if the cladding units (think of them as tiles) only comes in a limited number of flavours.

AoD

 

[Contra]

You could make a super tall tower of pure diamond and gold and I can guarantee there would be people on this site criticizing it. Everybody is going to have an opinion. And the people on here in no way represent the average person.

Diamond and gold in this economy?!

 

[Riseth]

Diamond and gold in this economy?!

Never mind in this city

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

You could make a super tall tower of pure diamond and gold and I can guarantee there would be people on this site criticizing it.

...I am pretty sure it would be streaks left by rain being one of those complaints. >.<

 

[3Dementia]

You could make a super tall tower of pure diamond and gold and I can guarantee there would be people on this site criticizing it. Everybody is going to have an opinion. And the people on here in no way represent the average person.

I think some here have become glass half empty .... it's a kind of slow burn PTSD from the plethora of crap condos that many developers have built like this:

Link

 

[kris]

Wait til you see how this thing reflects sunsets

 

[skycandy]

Night moves…

A few ‘before Minami restaurant’ pics followed by two afterwards.

The night crew is busy.

An ascending conjoined double section to be mounted around 6:30 PM.

They appeared to be starting the next row here…

But when we came out of the restaurant this was being mounted in the southeast corner. Perhaps a different piece (wasn’t expecting the backing to look like that)?…didn’t have time to check the front face of it.

 

[wmedia]

I'm pleased that we're getting a "Gehry-lite" here. I've personally never been much a fan of his more outlandish designs, but it seems like we're getting the best of both Gehry flair and "conventional" design here. Also, those reflecting city lights at night look fantastic!