Toronto Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning | ?m | 21s | Sick Kids | Diamond Schmitt

Yes, excellent shots. This building sure is making up for a lot of crap on Bay Street! I just love those curved windows - well, all of the glass. I can't remember the last project that used curved glass.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Imagine the possibilities if this kind of curved cladding is applied to the majority (if not the entire) building...
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But the purpose of the curved section is to express a different function within the building, surely? It's like the curved, metal-clad roof section at the Four Seasons Centre that expresses where the performance hall is.
 
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can't think of a better word than: EPIC ^

this building (aside from the super high ceilings and street level) can pass as a luxury hotel. with the slick coloured cladding and those curved glass atriums. I can see it now, logo at the top: Mandarin Oriental Toronto :cool:
 
On Sat, they were relocating the jib crane to take down the 2nd crane either this week or next week, now the first one is gone.

A number of cranes have come down this past week.
 
The word "terrifying" refers to what in that pic? Kensington at dusk? A really cool building app 1 kilometre away? The oddest post I've come across on this site in the 3 months since I've been a member...
 
Maybe he meant it's looks terrifying because in that picture it resembles a 3rd world town? Kensington doesn't seem like a very cozy place, to me.
 
urbandreamer said:
I am not a fan of this building. It's very dreary/muted Toronto where red brick needs to be used to create some classic streetwall.

I do wish it was taller than this ugly smokestack--why can't these be painted cheerful colours?
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Heres one of his posts from a few months back. Clearly he's not a fan.
 
Four Rivers said:
Maybe he meant it's looks terrifying because in that picture it resembles a 3rd world town? Kensington doesn't seem like a very cozy place, to me.
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Maybe so, but is Kensington an adjunct to some take on Urbandreamer's appraisal of this project? By posting a picture of this building in the least attractive way possible, what is he/she saying? What exactly is "terrible" about this image UD? Is "Sick Kids" a waste of time 'cause it photographs poorly behind a smokestack?
 
I don't know. Funny, that smokestack is one of the more pleasing objects in that picture. At least it isn't chipping away like everything else.
 
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