Toronto Waterfront Innovation Centre | 53.03m | 11s | Waterfront Toronto | Sweeny &Co

[syn]

Is it just me, or is there an extra corner pillar on the southwest where the upper section was supposed to cantilever? Pretty disappointing if true. That corner would look so much cleaner without the pole in the way.

Disappointment is the new innovation.

 

[evandyk]

Is it just me, or is there an extra corner pillar on the southwest where the upper section was supposed to cantilever? Pretty disappointing if true. That corner would look so much cleaner without the pole in the way.

You mean in front of the stairs leading down to the grassy knoll? I think that has always been there, or at least for the last few years.

https://waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/wcm/connect/waterfront/78e7c65e-af13-4e29-b853-f42d5f909b14/WIC_MayDRP.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=78e7c65e-af13-4e29-b853-f42d5f909b14

 

[condovo]

Is it just me, or is there an extra corner pillar on the southwest where the upper section was supposed to cantilever? Pretty disappointing if true. That corner would look so much cleaner without the pole in the way.

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Source: ProjectEnd

I think you're right. There's no way that pillar is going behind the glazing. Very unfortunate.


And very unfortunate from this angle too. The visible column is going ruin the visual effect of the cantilever. Sucks.

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[ChesterCopperpot]

https://images.unoapp.com/boxdata/asset47515/images/RetailFlyer.pdf

 

[ProjectEnd]

I believe @Gphorce meant here:

So yes, looks like the *small* cantilever was VE'd out. Thanks Menkes...

 

[condovo]

Well, then at least two cantilevers are kaput. The columns are no longer behind the glass. Seriously, Menkes?

 

[ProjectEnd]

I mean this thing was DOA sooooo....

 

[MoObserves]

It's becoming very ironic this is called the Waterfront "Innovation" Center.

 

[christiesplits]

I mean this thing was DOA sooooo....

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Remember how the Design panel criticized this for being "too much" like the Ryerson student centre? So they went back to the drawing board, and made it look like every building in a suburban office park.

 

[condovo]

It's becoming very ironic this is called the Waterfront "Innovation" Center.

Watered-down Innovation Centre

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Remember how the Design panel criticized this for being "too much" like the Ryerson student centre? So they went back to the drawing board, and made it look like every building in a suburban office park.

False choice - besides does one really believe that a proponent that produced this final product with all the corner-cutting had it in them to build what was proposed originally?

AoD

 

[condovo]

False choice - besides does one really believe that a proponent that produced this final product with all the corner-cutting had it in them to build what was proposed originally?

AoD

And as the images above prove, not just figurative but literal corner-cutting.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

And as the images above prove, not just figurative but literal corner-cutting.

Used that phrase for a reason

AoD

 

[adHominem]

It's becoming very ironic this is called the Waterfront "Innovation" Center.

Wait, this little slice of Vaughan Corporate Centre on the water isn't what Jane Jacobs meant with the whole "new ideas need old buildings" thing?

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

A building admittedly to which Menkes didn't need to be so cheap-assed about it.