02-11-2021, 12:23 PM
(02-11-2021, 12:16 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(02-11-2021, 10:05 AM)westwardloo Wrote: Looks like a nice quality infill project. Underground parking is my preferred option, but I think surface parking fits this site perfectly fine. The building is built along the street and hides the parking completely. I prefer that over having the parking take up the first floor and have some horrendous façade like DTK or one28.
Podiums don't need to be ugly. 144 Park/Caroline facades look fine, no worse than the rest of the building. 1 Victoria is fine as well, I think, as is the Garment/100 Victoria cluster. Not architectural masterpieces but the podiums are not atrocious.
They may look better, but it's still apparent you are facing a garage. You'd have to have a pretty big development to completely encircle the inner garage with active uses on the outside (if such a thing is even possible within building codes), which is the only way I see a garage facade not being a net negative.
But certainly you are right that they can be better or worse.