Toronto King + Condos | 53.03m | 17s | King Plus | TACT Architecture

[ProjectEnd]

Good heavens, what an utter embarrassment The Berczy is.

 

[slicecom]

Good heavens, what an utter embarrassment The Berczy is.

The Berczy is beautiful! I choose to pretend the top part doesn't exist.

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[Miscreant]

You know, that shot of Yonge and Front--honestly, from that perspective and at this time of the year, things just look like hell. That's Edmonton after a modest boom. Yikes.

 

[urbandreamer]

crane op would be a cool career

But then you'd have to stare at ugly things like

So crane op for 1 day maybe?

 

[Razz]

Sunday, March 8, 2015:
Road closure for tower crane removal:


The east wall of King+ Condos is a travesty..


The folks on the upper floors of The East Condos must be beside themselves, having to stare a blank concrete wall.

 

[slicecom]

Th.. they're going to leave it like that???

 

[Edward Skira]

Crane coming down

 

[grey]

Th.. they're going to leave it like that???

It's a big middle finger to everyone living east of Sherbourne.

 

[slicecom]

It's a big middle finger to everyone living east of Sherbourne.

I just assumed it hadn't been clad yet. Are there any other examples of a giant unfinished concrete wall like this in the city?

 

[Edward Skira]

I seriously doubt it will not be clad.

 

[DSC]

I just assumed it hadn't been clad yet. Are there any other examples of a giant unfinished concrete wall like this in the city?

In several cases the equivalent bare concrete walls have been "finished" with metal siding. Example are at King just WEST (edit) of Parliament (west wall) and at Queen @ Jarvis (east facing wall). Certainly in the latter case the siding might better have been foregone and the concrete poured better as it looks really quite poor already. At King + this east-facing wall will be there for decades as it is over a fairly new condo building that isn't going anywhere, the other two are over sites that are feasible for new developments in the next few years.

 

[grey]

Cladding will not distract from this being a huge blank wall, I'm afraid.

 

[Edward Skira]

The only place you'll see it is from basically the corner of King and Ontario. Hardly a big deal.

 

[Solaris]

And that blank wall will be no more when 261 King East redevelops ... though that is not a rundown building screaming for redevelopment

In the interim, I fully expect east face of King+ to be stucco/paint finished in some fashion