CapitalSeven
Senior Member
Filmport! Shedport! Sorethumbport! Whateverport! I mean that in a good way. Sensibilities awoken and astirr. If the only consensus is that argument is better than simple acceptance, so much the better.
Isn't that what the "Searchlight" Sculpture outside of the ACC and the super enlarged Picasso sculpture in Chicago are made of? In which case, I don't think this building will really stand out as much as the rendering seems. I'd rather they just painted it a bright red (which I think the Sharp Centre has for the colour splothces) since it would make it more eye catching. This Cor-Ten steel is nice and all but it will never make this building live up the the reputation that the rendering gives it.The Cor-Ten steel used in its construction will give it a rusty red colour.
I've been there (actually I got caught in the rain there yesterday) and while it is a great park, the idea for it wasn't "meant" for Toronto, it was a Boston idea from the get-go. If the plans fall through for the current Spire Tower in Chicago and they decided to relocate it to TO, I wouldn't really see it as a "Toronto" project. It was meant for Chi-town and if the city doesn't want it, it shoudn't be put somewhere else. I see it that projects should be built for a city , not a city built for a project (like I find Dubai is doing). It's like if the giant Maple Leaf island that West 8 proposed suddenly gets built in Vancouver, it would be a great addition for them, but really, we all would know it wasn't "Vancouver", it was Toronto project that ended up there.Have you ever been there? Boston's loss was very much our gain, as was Alsop's setting up an office here.
Isn't that what the "Searchlight" Sculpture outside of the ACC and the super enlarged Picasso sculpture in Chicago are made of? In which case, I don't think this building will really stand out as much as the rendering seems. I'd rather they just painted it a bright red (which I think the Sharp Centre has for the colour splothces) since it would make it more eye catching. This Cor-Ten steel is nice and all but it will never make this building live up the the reputation that the rendering gives it.