Toronto Jade Waterfront | 138.37m | 41s | Phantom | BDP Quadrangle

[Lenser]

Pretty trippy. The thing looks like it's having a slow meltdown.

 

[interchange42]

From the north this afternoon, in relation to the buildings around it, and really showing off those curves.

Oops, no, unless you're up close, you just can't see them.

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[interchange42]

From yesterday:

Still assuming this crane is only for building a parking garage under the parkette which will be out front of this, and nothing more:

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[NBGtect]

That first shot is a wicked angle. This is how it should be viewed. I need to check it out in person, but I still think that balcony glass should be a jade colour.

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

^^ +1 Nice photos!

 

[Torontovibe]

The balcony glass was a poor choice. If they would have put fritted glass, even if it only went half way up the glass, it would have been a much better looking building. Right now, it just looks so basic to me. All these glass boxes clumped together is not attractive.

 

[WiddleBittyKitty]

Either frit or a tinting of the balcony glass. Something to give the wavey balconies more impact.

 

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From earlier today:

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From yesterday:

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[WislaHD]

From earlier today:

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Maybe this one is not so bad after all!

 

[interchange42]

Viewed from certain angles—mostly acute ones on the short ends—the wave pattern on Jade Waterfront looks fantastic. Overall, though, this building is an aesthetic failure, one that might have been avoided by a more complementary or exciting choice of spandrel panelling, and/or by fritted balconies, which tend to mitigate the visual jumble behind them.

It makes me think of another building (which I think is already more successful architecturally) where I mentioned to the architect that I wish it had had fritted balconies to make its architectural statement more pronounced, and the response was that they had designed it that way, but the frit was deleted to bring the cost of the building down. I wonder if that might have been the case here too… but I would not expect an answer on that.

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[Filip]

Luckily the wide sides of this building will be blocked soon.

 

[old boy]

Luckily the wide sides of this building will be blocked soon.

A thread could be started up with this heading, Filip.

 

[Michael Ianni]

Lake Shore Blvd view. Little difficult to notice the waves unless your close which is disappointing

 

[Keyz]

May 28th, 2016