Toronto The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini

[ChesterCopperpot]

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Is that a sample piece of brick/precast on the column in the central spine there?

 

[ushahid]

Slightly different shade of green.

 

[Red Mars]

Is that a sample piece of brick/precast on the column in the central spine there?

It's part of the Stantec building.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

I was referring to this

 

[Red Mars]

I was referring to this

Yes, it looks very much like it. Great catch/eye.

 

[karledice]

Is that a sample piece of brick/precast on the column in the central spine there?

Wow great eye!
I'm very happy that the Wellington north facing buildings are all going to be bricked and goes so seamlessly with the street and the heritage of the neighbourhood, truly creating a Million dollar row downtown!

 

[Red Mars]

Thursday Mar 19, 2020

 

[DavidCapizzano]

It's a shame they killed the diagonal concrete columns shown in the earlier renders/plans for the office tower. It would have added some dimension to what is ultimately a super flat and kind of boring facade along the 2nd/3rd/4th? floors. Fingers crossed the rental and condo towers shake it up with their curtain wall glazing selection.

 

[Automation Gallery]

It's a shame they killed the diagonal concrete columns shown in the earlier renders/plans for the office tower. It would have added some dimension to what is ultimately a super flat and kind of boring facade along the 2nd/3rd/4th? floors...

They did, doesn't that come after?

 

[DavidCapizzano]

They did, doesn't that come after?

Not referring to the cross bracing on the upper sections of the tower, but the diagonal concrete columns shown in earlier renders. Not sure when the podium design was finalized, but it definitely lost some interesting details that have ended up as flat curtain wall.

From the database:

From the Globe, slightly different design but still with neat columns:

 

[ProjectEnd]

They certainly were cool but as they didn't really accomplish anything, I can see how they would be some of the first things to get VE'd out. I'm more annoyed at the loss of the terracotta fins along that same part.

 

[GabrielHurl]

They weren't structural (the diagonal bracing) - so were likely an easy deletion.

 

[condovo]

So, is there a colour/tonal shift in the glazing above the first levels after all? Sure looks like it.

 

[Red Mars]

Mar 21, 2020

 

[Yegger]

the more i see of the office tower, the more it feels watered down. Hopefully the cross-bracing keeps it interesting as well as the brick and stonework closer to the ground level.