Toronto Social at Church + Dundas | 164.89m | 52s | Pemberton | RAW Design

[CanadianNational]

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The oddest thing about this pic is that from this angle, the basic form of the building looks really interesting. It looks vivacious and pert - someone, somewhere along the way really tried. But - ye gawds - everything applied onto this frame seems both horribly discordant and unrelievedly, aggressively banal. Distance brings no relief and a close-up search for worth only increases aggregated discomfort. "Look upon my cladding ye mighty and despair" should be set in a plexi lightbox sign over the front door.

 

[WeirdFishes]

The oddest thing about this pic is that from this angle, the basic form of the building looks really interesting. It looks vivacious and pert - someone, somewhere along the way really tried. But - ye gawds - everything applied onto this frame seems both horribly discordant and unrelievedly, aggressively banal. Distance brings no relief and a close-up search for worth only increases aggregated discomfort. "Look upon my cladding ye mighty and despair" should be set in a plexi lightbox sign over the front door.

For me it's less interesting because this balcony "trick" has been done dozens of times before in the city.

 

[AlbertC]

 

[Rascacielo]

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Looks innocuous from a distance

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

They have many other projects in the 'walk of shame'. Not sure this is the worst of them

Though RAW isn't exactly guiltless - a more talented firm will surely make it less of a pile - and RAW had a rather unenviable record.

Looks innocuous from a distance

Everything looks innocuous from a distance when surrounded by their better.

AoD

 

[Benito]

Two days ago. Kind of interesting at this angle where you don’t see the horrible quality of the cladding on the tower

 

[changerang]

Two days ago. Kind of interesting at this angle where you don’t see the horrible quality of the cladding on the tower View attachment 431302

I agree the tower actually looks pretty nice when looking straight up at it from that angle. If only it could look that nice from a distance.

 

[Rascacielo]

The tower has good bones - it just needs an extreme makeover.

 

[khris]

Simply changing the material for the balconies would have changed this entire project. There would still be other issues, but this is the biggest one that would have the largest impact.

 

[Rascacielo]

Today. This tower reminds me of the Jays' recent post-season collapse. It was greeted with a lot of excitement (scroll back to the earlier pages of this thread), but did everything it could to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[Yegger]

It's a shame about the balcony glass. I hope the ones in place start cracking and have to be replaced like at 1 Yonge (Phase 1) so that at least there's a chance for salvation.

 

[condovo]

Derided as "balcony architecture" and the balconies are messed up too.

 

[interchange42]

Today, from the deep south:

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[mr.giver]