MetroMan
Senior Member
Oh nice.... I think. I guess they're finished with the "shield" then. What treatment did the pillar connecting points get? I passed by on Nuit Blanche and I think I saw a metal cover but it was dark and I wasn't sure.
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urbandreamer
recession proof
9 October 2008 photo update:
Passing by the Grange/Dundas West today, I noticed workers feverishly working away: I highly doubt the AGO will be finished before opening day, don't y'all agree?
Passing by the Grange/Dundas West today, I noticed workers feverishly working away: I highly doubt the AGO will be finished before opening day, don't y'all agree?
CanadianNational
Senior Member
The usual angles, and a few more.
Oct 9, 2008
Moore's back!
Steps poured.
...and being poured.
Near the front doors.
Meanwhile, out back...well, a fence is going up on either side of The Grange.
Oct 9, 2008
Moore's back!
Steps poured.
...and being poured.
Near the front doors.
Meanwhile, out back...well, a fence is going up on either side of The Grange.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
GREAT updates CN, thanks for these and all the other pictures!
Tewder
Senior Member
I just love this project and can't wait to see it finished.
woodyb
New Member
The visor is kind of cool, on its own. But rarely have I seen an architectural element that seems so tacked on. If I were an aesthetically sensitive Godzilla tromping down Dundas, my first instinct would be to rip that thing off.
Pretty much every new exterior element here feels tacked on. I have to agree with Ganjavih's overall assessment of the project.
Pretty much every new exterior element here feels tacked on. I have to agree with Ganjavih's overall assessment of the project.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Well the Dundas visor was tacked on, so what's wrong with it looking like it was tacked on? The way it's bracketed to Parkin's 1974 building doesn't pretend it is anything other than a recent addition. The evolution of the building, through several additions, is obvious.
khris
Senior Member
Hopefully when all the little details are finished, it won't look tacked on anymore.
rdaner
Senior Member
I don't have an opinion on whether it looks tacked on or not, but the visor's reflection of the very local, polychromatic streetscape of a century ago on the other side of Dundas in its much cleaner, smooth surface gets a positive response from me. Very, very cool. In all of the traveling that I have done, I have never seen an effect quite like it.
4grand
Active Member
I wonder how the rain will swoop down off the roof. Is that why the visor is there?
whatever
Senior Member
That, and to catch the snow drifts. From inside the Galleria you'll be able to see a gutter in between the visor and the main wall that's been clad in stainless steel, and under which is an incredible number of heat tracing cables.
And the concrete columns aren't being clad, unless it's an extra. That's why they were protected with foam and plywood up until now, to protect the finished surface.
And the concrete columns aren't being clad, unless it's an extra. That's why they were protected with foam and plywood up until now, to protect the finished surface.
CanadianNational
Senior Member
For some reason, the front visor keeps reminding me of this hairdo from Edward Scissorhands:
woodyb
New Member
Honesty is just one of many aesthetic criteria. Imagine someone takes a dump on the Louvre and calls it "an addition". I say it looks like they took a dump on the Louvre. They reply: "Well, I did take a dump on the Louvre, what's wrong with it looking like I took a dump?"
Of course the disanalogy here is that a dump arguably isn't beautiful in and of itself, while Gehry's visor is. Perhaps a better analogy would be someone taking a sleek, stainless steel dump on the Louvre.
adma
Superstar
Although to be honest, there were people who thought Pei's pyramid and its mass-museumology accoutrements were akin to taking a dump on the Louvre...
mysteryman
Active Member
Fencing on the east side had been removed. You can now sit on the Henry Moore and watch workers working overhead...