(11-22-2019, 01:07 PM)westwardloo Wrote:(11-22-2019, 10:57 AM)Spokes Wrote: Thanks for posting those. While disappointing compared to what it was, I still think this will be a show stopper.Has it changed much compared to what was supposed to be there? it looks like all that was lost was 1 story and the parking garage? The building form looks pretty similar. I don't know how I feel about the lose of the parking garage structure. I kind of hope it just opens up the possibility of the another future office expansion haha. Although I would prefer that to happen at the old McDonald site.
If you compare to https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/...p?aid=4949 you'll see that the floorplate for the glass box above used to be two partially-overlapping rectangles with slightly different cladding for each, now it's just a simple rectangle. The old design broke up the facade more, with varying depths and styles creating more corners and less of a monolithic glass wall. It also added some height variation using the mechanical on the roof.
(11-22-2019, 02:10 PM)kps Wrote: If the renders posted here are correct, the footprint is larger to make up for the lost height — the parkette at Wellington & Moore is gone.
Yes, this too. The old render was 13 windows along the length of the lower building, now it's 15.
I hadn't even noticed the park change originally. So now I can say that to have a 11fl building, rather than 12fl building, we gave up a parkette and architectural quality. Seems like the neighbourhood NIMBYs really scored a huge victory there. /s
I don't by any stretch hate the new building, I think it's a great addition to the city. But the older one was clearly better, and I can't imagine that a 1fl reduction in building height actually changed anyone's view.