Urban Shocker
Doyenne
The St. Lawrence Centre is a girl building, and she's jolie laide.
I think 77 Elm's a girl too.
I think 77 Elm's a girl too.
I find Commerce Court very elegant. In fact, I love all of Toronto's bank towers, as well as buildings like Manulife and Sheraton. I'm a box junkie as it relates to architecture, but I recognize many, if not most, folks are not.Translating to buildings, everything on the internet is black or white, and since one shade below perfect must, therefore, be ugly, you end up with people calling Pei's Commerce Court ugly which is, of course, ridiculous, unless you think all boxes are automatically ugly, in which case your opinion doesn't matter.
I don't understand the hatred of ROCP. The design, at least, is one of the nicest ones this city has seen in recent years, I think. ROCP 1 looks much taller than 500 ft. I haven't actually viewed it up close in person, though. Is it cheap materials and finishing that have been raising everyone's hackles?Saying RoCP or Sheraton or NY Towers or even the Holiday Inn is ugly is saying it's the ugliest celebrity building
Dundas and Bloor surely is filled with some beasts--Crossways, and especially, that tower across the street. Lansdowne and Dupont have yet more eyesores.
I don't understand the hatred of ROCP. The design, at least, is one of the nicest ones this city has seen in recent years, I think. ROCP 1 looks much taller than 500 ft. I haven't actually viewed it up close in person, though. Is it cheap materials and finishing that have been raising everyone's hackles?
I don't understand the hatred of ROCP. The design, at least, is one of the nicest ones this city has seen in recent years, I think. ROCP 1 looks much taller than 500 ft. I haven't actually viewed it up close in person, though. Is it cheap materials and finishing that have been raising everyone's hackles?
...those who find it cringe worthy must do an awful lot of cringeing in this city, and indeed in all cities, at just about everything. I always find myself amused at the delicateness of the sensitivities so expressed. One pictures someone fanning themselves as they pass by, "well mah goodness sakes land o' livin', look at that horrid, simply horrid 60 Niagara, whah, the-uy should not be allowed to put such a powsitive mownstrositee raight wheh ladies might wawk bah".
My vote is for the Sears building on Jarvis...
Upside down brown pyramid...nasty...
And since we're on Jarvis, the courthouse is horrid as well...