Toronto The Selby | 165.5m | 50s | Tricon | bKL Architecture

[junctionist]

The brick is quite reflective. I'm sure it will be much brighter in the sun not that I don't care either way. You can have too much colour.

You can't have too much colour. You can only have bad design that doesn't use colour effectively to create an attractive building.

 

[maestro]

That' what I meant when I said you can have too much colour. I find many on UT just want more colour regardless of quality.

 

[GenerationLee]

This tower is getting tall enough to see its crane from Castle Frank, this'll be a nice tower to look at from a ways away.

 

[Froggy]

This week:

 

[Bogtrotter]

It is looking quite brownish in that photo.

 

[GenerationLee]

It looks great in that angle IMO, the lighting gives it a look somewhat reminiscent of the Scotia Plaza tower.

 

[Bogtrotter]

I wouldn't consider it great but a more tempered red still works. It's not grey which is an automatic plus.

 

[cd concept]

Wow! An all red brick skyscraper. Haven't seen that in a while, Look great from a distance !

 

[Benito]

From Yonge and Carlton today.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

All from this morning. The brick really changes colour depending on directional light.

 

[Bogtrotter]

I wouldn't call this a stunner but the fact that the tower has no balconies help immensely, and the red brick looks fine so far. No window wall and cluttered panels with chintzy looking mullion- a much welcome change for a point tower here. That terrific brick mansion still stands out proudly against the ghastly grey extrusion next door.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

The bit of opaque window wall is unfortunate.

AoD

 

[stjames2queenwest]

^Agreed on the grey panels. Thankfully they are only really noticeable early in the day. The rest of the time they blend in pretty well

 

[bmiller]

Regardless of the fact it's not as bright as the renders, it's still a nice change from the old green glass boredom of the last 10 years.

 

[modernizt]

I absolutely would call this a stunner. I also think the chosen cladding colour is 10x better than what was depicted in renderings- I've been surprised that some forumers are complaining about the change.