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vegeta_skyline said:
Also, does the glass really look green to you in that image or did you just mean that figuratively?
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haha yes you are right. I used the word green, as it's a difficult colour to really describe. It's that murky blue-green colour that a lot of condos look like from a distance. I have no word for it.
 
scrapergeek said:
Maybe "murky condo" can be a new Benjamin Moore paint color name! :)
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It should be part of a whole line of colours, along with "Green Whine," "Dull Grey," "Precast," "Cheap Mullion," and "Exposed Concrete."

Would be a perfect contrast to my "Roadkill" palette.
 
scrapergeek said:
For me, 1 St Thomas is the winner in that photo. I also love 4S, but not in that particular pic. Direct sunlight can kill even the best looking glass buildings. I personally love the appearance of glass buildings just after sunset on a clear day.
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For me, the winner is Manulife Centre, with the Ferguson Block as the runnerup. A plain slab of concrete is all you need, not all the gewgaws on 1 St Thomas.
 
scrapergeek said:
I can appreciate the occasional slab, but "all" you need? Would you really want every building to look like that, with no variety? Just curious.
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Well, no. But I have an impression there is maybe a new wave of postmodern buildings going up? That's bad if so, most of them will be failures.

If we had a hundred postmodern monkeys designing buildings for a hundred years, the chances they'd come up with a "new" Empire State Building is pretty small. :) One ST is definitely not the Empire State Building.
 
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Anonymous: thanks for all of the photographic contributions!

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That BMO building is one of Toronto's best !
 
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