(04-09-2021, 06:43 PM)Chris Wrote: Any sign of work starting on the Jack Burger when you were there?

(04-09-2021, 07:27 PM)ac3r Wrote: ... the best plots of land have thus far all been thrown away on the worst possible developers and architects you could ever get here.

(04-09-2021, 07:27 PM)ac3r Wrote: I wish this building wasn't so wide...it's going to look pretty awful from the street, similar to how Circa 1877 looks. It has the footprint of awful mid 20th century modernism. A single building should not take up 1/3rd of a city block in this era. They could have easily separated it into two towers with a nice courtyard in the middle with good landscape architecture creating a nice inviting atmosphere. I can only hope we build a taller tower at Duke/Ontario to at least somewhat obscure the sight of this. The fake Forsyth Building façade they're going to have facing Duke is especially tacky because it wasn't even where the original factory was.

Maybe I should give up expecting good architecture from Waterloo Region haha...especially when it comes to condos. With the exception of Momentum/Zehr projects and Station Park, the best plots of land have thus far all been thrown away on the worst possible developers and architects you could ever get here.

(04-09-2021, 09:18 PM)tomh009 Wrote: It's fairly wide, yes. I expect this is less expensive than building two separate towers. But will it look as bad as DTK -- or Circa? I hope not, but can't really tell yet. The original City Centre looks OK to me, if a bit generic.

(04-10-2021, 09:14 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Yeah, I agree with you, very generic. But even a boring generic condo tower should look better than the disaster that is Duke Tower.

And, yes, I am pleased by the plans for the King St-facing section (although I thought it was five floors); hopefully it will look reasonably close to what the renders show.

(04-11-2021, 08:20 PM)mastermind Wrote: I think it is five floors facing King Street, this rendering is the view from the Duke St side, which is up quite a lot

(04-11-2021, 09:13 PM)taylortbb Wrote:

(04-11-2021, 08:20 PM)mastermind Wrote: I think it is five floors facing King Street, this rendering is the view from the Duke St side, which is up quite a lot

It's 6 floors on King St. This is the render that was posted earlier in the thread, and it matches what's been built. It's retail + parking + 4 floors residential. The top floor of residential is set back though, so it looks like 5 floors from King St.

(04-09-2021, 07:27 PM)ac3r Wrote: I wish this building wasn't so wide...it's going to look pretty awful from the street, similar to how Circa 1877 looks. It has the footprint of awful mid 20th century modernism. A single building should not take up 1/3rd of a city block in this era. They could have easily separated it into two towers with a nice courtyard in the middle with good landscape architecture creating a nice inviting atmosphere. I can only hope we build a taller tower at Duke/Ontario to at least somewhat obscure the sight of this. The fake Forsyth Building façade they're going to have facing Duke is especially tacky because it wasn't even where the original factory was.

Maybe I should give up expecting good architecture from Waterloo Region haha...especially when it comes to condos. With the exception of Momentum/Zehr projects and Station Park, the best plots of land have thus far all been thrown away on the worst possible developers and architects you could ever get here.

(04-09-2021, 07:27 PM)ac3r Wrote: I wish this building wasn't so wide...it's going to look pretty awful from the street, similar to how Circa 1877 looks.

(04-14-2021, 08:27 AM)ac3r Wrote: I disagree. I've seen a lot of the architectural plans and impact (shadow, visibility) studies for this building. It's going to look very bold. There's no way you won't see this thing towering over King or Duke Streets unless you're standing behind a wall.