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I'll take a competently designed, handsomely proportioned, well constructed - if a little unimaginative - box over the sloppy 'hey-look-at-me' nonsense next door any day.

Think of it as a Dieter Rams 'as-little-design-as-possible' tower.
 
Torontovibe said:
How about the fact that it looks like every other grey, glass box in the city? The materials may be better than average but the design isn't.
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I don't share this concern, every period has a dominant look. So while a huge number of building currently under construction might be similar, in terms of Toronto's accumulated inventory it isn't excessive. In 50 years people will point to about 50-75 such building as examples of this period.

Soon we'll be seeing another style emerge: M+G, Oxford, 1 yonge Street, Monde, and Donlands as examples.
 
Those five projects strike as being of four or five different styles, not an example of one.

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It's not so much the grey materials, but how they are used. The fact that this turned out so much better than its western neighbour speaks to that, in my opinion. I think this building is well-executed and a nice addition to the area.
 
ProjectEnd said:
I'll take a competently designed, handsomely proportioned, well constructed - if a little unimaginative - box over the sloppy 'hey-look-at-me' nonsense next door any day.

Think of it as a Dieter Rams 'as-little-design-as-possible' tower.
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I think of it as vanilla, a very good vanilla.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Actually, banal tend to be a phrase best applied to poorly designed, tedious works - e.g. what goes on at Liberty Village. This project is hardly it.

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I'm not say poorly designed or tedious - however that may apply - I just think it's a boring tall yawn. It's not an address people would boast about, it's just... there -just another inconsequential apartment building that most people won't look twice at.
 
Big Daddy said:
I'm not say poorly designed or tedious - however that may apply - I just think it's a boring tall yawn. It's not an address people would boast about, it's just... there -just another inconsequential apartment building that most people won't look twice at.
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Nothing wrong with that - better than telling everyone you live at Flintstone Tower. This is good in the way Hudson, Charlie is good.

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AlvinofDiaspar said:
Nothing wrong with that - better than telling everyone you live at Flintstone Tower. This is good in the way Hudson, Charlie is good.

AoD
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That's not saying much, though. Yes. It isn't a complete disaster, but it is a giant snooze. The bar should be set a little higher.
 
TheKingEast said:
That's not saying much, though. Yes. It isn't a complete disaster, but it is a giant snooze. The bar should be set a little higher.
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Actually nope - it wasn't a building that stands out, these are filler buildings and I think competence is sufficient. Better that than overreach and crash/burn.

AoD
 
I tend to agree. There's nothing particularly bad about this building but there's nothing particularly great about it either - but that's okay. That's what filler is. Every skyline needs fillers otherwise, you end up with something like Dubai which is a tacky, Disney like city on steroids where every building wants to be the beauty queen but ends up looking like Honey Boo Boo.
 
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