(12-09-2019, 04:43 PM)westwardloo Wrote: Drove by the site today. Lots of activity. Looks like there are starting to do a little digging. Saw a couple pile drivers working away. Wish we had an updated render.

(12-13-2019, 10:09 PM)ac3r Wrote: The rendering is so weird I can't tell if it will be good or bad. I think good. It sure beats the silly post-modern red and white thing they originally had. Most of the new buildings around the universities look like 30 year old post-modern disasters. The new rendering looks like it was done on 1990s software so it's hard to guess any kind of material use or anything so it's vague, but it at least the design looks a lot more modern in general.

(12-14-2019, 10:27 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:

(12-13-2019, 10:09 PM)ac3r Wrote: The rendering is so weird I can't tell if it will be good or bad. I think good. It sure beats the silly post-modern red and white thing they originally had. Most of the new buildings around the universities look like 30 year old post-modern disasters. The new rendering looks like it was done on 1990s software so it's hard to guess any kind of material use or anything so it's vague, but it at least the design looks a lot more modern in general.

I’m not sure which buildings you are calling disasters but just for the record I love the orange-and-white basketweave. I wouldn’t want all the buildings to look like that but having a few funky buildings with unusual aesthetic choices is fine by me.

(12-14-2019, 02:07 PM)westwardloo Wrote:

(12-14-2019, 10:27 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: I’m not sure which buildings you are calling disasters but just for the record I love the orange-and-white basketweave. I wouldn’t want all the buildings to look like that but having a few funky buildings with unusual aesthetic choices is fine by me.

I have a feeling they are referring to the buildings along king, especially the disaster at king and Columbia. I would also add all the awful 5 story builds scattered all over the university area before the high rises began
 https://www.google.ca/maps/place/63-53+Columbia+St+W,+Waterloo,+ON+N2L+3K4/@43.480024,-80.5315147,3a,75y,138.46h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPQD2M2Nc0_BdsJHGFw87Hg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x882bf3f0c8059067:0x6d46deff5048cd93?hl=en 
I actually really like the ones they built at Albert and university. Too bad they weren't all that quality.

(12-14-2019, 05:56 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:

(12-14-2019, 02:07 PM)westwardloo Wrote: I have a feeling they are referring to the buildings along king, especially the disaster at king and Columbia. I would also add all the awful 5 story builds scattered all over the university area before the high rises began
 https://www.google.ca/maps/place/63-53+Columbia+St+W,+Waterloo,+ON+N2L+3K4/@43.480024,-80.5315147,3a,75y,138.46h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPQD2M2Nc0_BdsJHGFw87Hg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x882bf3f0c8059067:0x6d46deff5048cd93?hl=en 
I actually really like the ones they built at Albert and university. Too bad they weren't all that quality.

OK, yeah, King St. isn’t looking so great. Quality varies a lot.

Personally, and I know I’m beating a bit of a dead horse here (see the Market Square thread), but I’m more annoyed by the practical fact that even with skyscrapers going up all over the place there isn’t even the beginning of an attempt at parts of a weather-protected route from UW to WLU. All it would take is a few large buildings along University Ave. to link to each other and this could exist, which would make travel so much more convenient for thousands of students every day.

If I were chief city planner, the rule would be medium density implies covered porticos linked all the way around each block; high density implies fully enclosed links between all buildings.