City urban designers should worry less about how chunky a building is, and more about how it works at eye level
www.theglobeandmail.com
By Alex Bozikovic.
Apparently the project is being held up because of the...width? I think my head is going to spin right off.
I agree that this is, taken in isolation, an odd thing to hold up this project over.
But I have some sympathy for the City..........
Due to an argument made in the article, I take it, by Allied's CEO.......
"...........To think of how we as a society get to net zero, there needs to be 10,000 projects like this.”
For the record, that would be be a 9km long uninterrupted wall; and yes, I would oppose that.
I do sympathize with bureaucrats concerned with precedent.
Should there be room to say 'yes' here? .....Of course there should.
But I don't consider the matter as outrageous as some would have it.
A 30,000ft2 floor plate for an office tower is huge.
It's huge if it's a square, never mind if it's 90M in one dimension.
It's quite right to point that it's an alley, that there is no block being eliminated by the huge floor plate.........
But it's also something I wouldn't want to see commonly replicated either.
The next version won't be from Allied or Big............