12-11-2021, 01:20 AM
(12-10-2021, 10:47 PM)ac3r Wrote: I don't know what kind of standards you guys have if you think this looks good or on par with buildings you'd find in Toronto. Good architecture looks like the work by Hariri Pontarini, KPMB or BDP Quadrangle. This is just wack...SRM sucks hard. Even their employees hate their work. I mean, just look at the entire profile, it's trash. Now we've got a 39 floor skyscraper that'll be a blight on the skyline for probably the next century or so.To add to this, this isn't even on par with Toronto infill developments. Even some of the worst projects in toronto like Daniel's waterfront at least have decent podiums, and buildings that have horrible podiums like YC condos and Aura a still decent towers. There is next to nothing about this building that is good. Charlie West is passable at best, Garment St condo's are like Toronto suburbia towers. The only condos in the city right now that are about the quality of what you would expect in Toronto, is station park.
Even then station park would be inoffensive infill at best. A development that isnt hated but certainly would not garner much praise either. Not to mention toronto is hardly known for it's striking architecture. I get were a mid tier city in Ontario, we're not going to attract world renowned architects and developers, but we have a world class university and a massive google office, BlackBerry headquarters, and a huge tech startup industry. Demanding Toronto quality skyscrapers is the least we can do.