Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed

[tomh009]

Tower looks decent. At least has some 'curvy illusion'. I agree though @ remarks re: podium. Do something decent, perhaps keep it brick or a homage to our industrial past (or maybe we are over that now LOL)

The rational for the reflective glass podium is that it will show the century homes on the opposite side of the street. There might be more detail in the heritage committee minutes if some knows where to find it.

[ZEBuilder]

Tower looks decent. At least has some 'curvy illusion'. I agree though @ remarks re: podium. Do something decent, perhaps keep it brick or a homage to our industrial past (or maybe we are over that now LOL)

The rational for the reflective glass podium is that it will show the century homes on the opposite side of the street. There might be more detail in the heritage committee minutes if some knows where to find it.

Here's the link to the HIA, it'll be somewhere in it.

https://pub-kitchener.escribemeetings.co...ntId=19914

Here's the link to the staff report 

https://pub-kitchener.escribemeetings.co...ntId=19913

[dtkvictim]

Tower looks decent. At least has some 'curvy illusion'. I agree though @ remarks re: podium. Do something decent, perhaps keep it brick or a homage to our industrial past (or maybe we are over that now LOL)

The rational for the reflective glass podium is that it will show the century homes on the opposite side of the street. There might be more detail in the heritage committee minutes if some knows where to find it.

"Sorry, we can't build nice things anymore. Best we can do is a mirror to reflect the nice things of the past".

But more seriously, I must be misunderstanding the site here, because I don't see any century homes (or any SFHs) across the streets from this site. Just one adjacent at 79 Benton.

[tomh009]

The rational for the reflective glass podium is that it will show the century homes on the opposite side of the street. There might be more detail in the heritage committee minutes if some knows where to find it.

"Sorry, we can't build nice things anymore. Best we can do is a mirror to reflect the nice things of the past".

But more seriously, I must be misunderstanding the site here, because I don't see any century homes (or any SFHs) across the streets from this site. Just one adjacent at 79 Benton.

I was hoping that someone could find the minutes of the meeting somewhere online but no luck so far ...