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

Undead · Oct 20, 2021

@yin_yang curious, how do your job assignments work? Are you with an agency that places you on different sites as needed?

yin_yang · Oct 21, 2021

Undead said:
@yin_yang curious, how do your job assignments work? Are you with an agency that places you on different sites as needed?

Yes. Sometimes I'll stay at a site for a week or two, but it's all over the place. I'm with the biggest agency in Toronto.

mr24 · Oct 21, 2021

Red Mars · Oct 21, 2021

Here, like in many other similar situations/projects, it's unfortunate that the tree scaping could not be done around the few resilient mature trees.

Khaloody · Oct 22, 2021

Wish we had a system for transplanting trees instead of cutting them down

tammywhams · Oct 22, 2021

I have seen partial coverage of window spaces with spandrel before, but I think this is the first time I've seen full coverage. Seems strange to me to not have just designed the unit to incorporate that window space...

spaced · Oct 22, 2021

Making a visual impact from Trinity Bellwoods:

Red Mars · Oct 22, 2021

Oct 22, 2021

TossYourJacket · Oct 22, 2021

tammywhams said:
I have seen partial coverage of window spaces with spandrel before, but I think this is the first time I've seen full coverage. Seems strange to me to not have just designed the unit to incorporate that window space...

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There's nearly an entire stack of windows on 1 Yorkville that are full coverage spandrel. (Source) It's arguably somehow even worse than this, because they made the spandrel almost the same light grey as the columns on the building. But yeah, this ain't great.

officedweller · Oct 22, 2021

It's either poor unit / layout design or designed to reduce solar gain (for LEED) by reducing the percentage of vision glass on the facade. In Vancouver, I think they want to get down to about only 50% vision glass coverage.