The Gaslight District | completed

[Bjays93]

The irony of Martin Simmons office next to that brick. Like a daily reminder of the perils of developer decision making.

They had almost nothing to do with the podium of the towers - they were mostly doing the work on the heritage buildings. Gaslight Condos was a joint effort with Martin Simmons and ABA Architects, the latter of which was primarily responsible for the towers. HIP Developments was the one who ultimately made the decision to go with this monstrosity though:

haaaaaa I was on the design team for the Gaslight podiums! The architect ended up going with with the vertical stripe idea because of how easy it was to prefab the concrete and *fake* bricks. I didn't support that design because the stripes emphasized the height of the parking podium and had nothing to do with the surrounding context of downtown Galt. But yeah the Gaslight condos are kind of embarrassing and primitive, however still a step forward for the development of Cambridge in my opinion. I gotta say though that the units on the bottom of the podium, once finished, are going to look kickass

I was working under the project architect for Gaslight at the time and he selected the idea from design team (aka the grunts) that we put forward to the developer (HIP) so ultimately the developer made the decision

This was posted by an architect over on Reddit and she was spot on about the vertical stripes.

This is the real issue. I honestly don't care how the towers look. They could look like shit they could look great. I'd prefer they look great but the problem is the podium. If you want more height in Galt, if you want the residents to support more height, the podium needs to match the surrounding context. There are multiple new projects in this area alone that do a reasonably good job. You dont need 1800's stonework but stone and brick go a long way in Galt particularly when your development is literally on a heritage site. If the podium matched with the southworks mall it wouldn't matter how bad the towers are because it would still look like it fits in with the fabric of the community. At the end of the day this does not