02-11-2021, 12:26 PM
(02-11-2021, 12:23 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(02-11-2021, 12:16 PM)tomh009 Wrote: 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.
That's what 1 Victoria and 144 Park do -- they have units on the outside, facing the street. I think only on the street-facing sides, but it's still an improvement.
Even DTK has units on the Duke St side of the podium. Sadly they don't make the building look much better.