Ramako
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It looks unfinished, from any distance.
Man, from a distance, it looks like a stunner.
Uptown by Taller, Better at SSC....
I agree, if by "stunned" you mean stunned that a developer could miss the mark by so far. Or stunned that they had the audacity to evoke the term Art Deco when advertising this monstrosity. Or stunned that a tall precast eyesore could be built at such an iconic urban intersection.
It would have taken so little money to elevate this to acceptable or even likeable, in my opinion.
i think it looks very agreeable.
Casa is beautiful. Uptown is a dump. What upsets me most though is that it had some (and I mean a very small some) potential, as from a distance they did a decent job with the profile. Everything else destroys it though; the precast, the windows, the horrendous "crown". Even Mississauga doesn't deserve this, despite the fact they've allowed monstrosities like Chicago and One Park to go up.
One Park is kind of cheesy but it turned out better than the Uptown, IMO. It has the verticality that Uptown lacks (think Traynor's suggestion) and its crown was actually completed. That said, they completely screwed up the most important part: street level. It's atrocious.
Okay the streel-level part I definitely agree with, but thats the way all towers in Mississauga look like at the street.