The Gaslight District | completed

[ac3r]

This is such a sad project. Right beside what could have been a really unique area of our region with beautiful stone warehouses. Basically set up for high end shops, breweries and restaurants. A mini distillery district. But no such thought was put into the Precast monstrosity that are these towers. The random white strips are do not make it more visually appealing. Based on the placement of caulking joints it looks like they fucked up on the panel sizes in places. A simple idea they should have done is just to make it all a consistent colour and panel size, then build a metal or mesh frame around the exterior to accommodate the vines or other creeping greenery. https://greenscreen.com/shared/2020/06/g...pdf?x70762

Yeah. This could have been so good, becoming as you said something like a distillery district in terms of having a character of old and new. There was so much potential here and it was all thrown away due to a greedy, money hungry developer that cut back on costs - outright stating to both architectural teams to redesign things to save money. Now this area is ruined forever. It's not the fault of the architects, fortunately. The developers should feel absolutely ashamed of themselves. I'd love to see them forced to live here lol, with their windows all facing the worst view of the podium imaginable.

What an absolute pity and I won't blame the citizens of Cambridge from speaking out against future proposals if they're just going to get bait and switched like this. It's the same sort of offense the people of Kitchener got with Duke Tower but 100 times worse due to how it has destroyed the neighbouring historical buildings.

If I had a billion dollars I'd have this torn down and properly rebuilt.