Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed

[ac3r]

Also not surprised the render to reality conversion is a massive let down. It makes you wonder why there isn't a process in place to force them to uphold a degree of the quality of architectural design in the final build. At least Circa 1877 didn't exactly hide what it was going to look like. This is not looking to be even close. The process in place is the building permit process.

I don't think we should EVER trust renders. The are purely for marketing and selling units/space.

The municipality has to approve all drawings but this is done behind closed doors so the public never sees that part of the process or knows what is asked to be changed by the city.

It really depends on who does the renders and in what. When I saw the renders for DTK, I was a bit underwhelmed because I can tell the renders were not done very well. The textures and lighting the architect used are of poor quality. Other architects can do pretty amazing stuff with rendering programs (like V-Ray, Rhino, Revit, Blender etc), but it depends on how good the textures they have are and how much patience they have.

I think the problem with DTK is that the podium seemed to include a metal mesh, but for some reason they put some painted concrete panels instead. Maybe they have plans on putting a mesh over top of these? Here's hoping...