Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed

[westwardloo]

I would stop trying to like it if I were you, it won't work

The projects that get built in this region are extremely subpar in terms of architectural design. I always imagine what would happen if they were proposed in DT Toronto, Vancouver, or any other city. Of course they would never approve them.

The project budgets in downtown Toronto are of a different order of magnitude than here. But, in any case, none of those cities have, as a rule, architectural approval requirements for new buildings.

Personally, I don't consider this city subpar, but of course we all have a right to our own opinions.

Its hard to say, obviously we are not at the scale of a city like, Vancouver, Calgary, toronto or Montreal. But what we are building in the region reminds me a lot of the Yaletown building in Vancouver from the 90's. Definitely not lookers. It might be that we as a city need to grow through the phase of cheap developments and architecture first, then we can graduate into something aesthetical pleasing. If you pay attention to what is going on in Vancouver its like the developers are trying to one up each other to produce the most unique tower in the city. I think what the region needs is something like this to happen on a smaller scale. We need the developers like Perimeter, Momentuem, Vive or Zhers to challenge each other to produce projects with a little more quality.  It amazes me that the region seems to be decades behind other cities when it comes to developments. look at what is being proposed/ constructed at Vaughan metro center or Square one. I think KW should be able to produce similar quality proposals to the suburbs of toronto. 

I hope the Francis street is a show stopper or at least a cohesive design. DTK is an embarrassment to the region in my opinion. Landmark place in Hamilton might be a bit uglier, but it wasn't built in the 21 century