06-19-2023, 02:32 PM
It's just the design that worked in The Scott building's favour. It's precast like everything else they do. I don't think it's a particularly great design or anything, but it isn't offensive and it just works. Probably because it isn't monochromatic.
SRM is bad but they do have some people working there who have some skills. If you pull up the People page under Our Firm and just Google search the names of people who have B.Arch or M.Arch degrees, you can sometimes find the public portfolios of some of their team. I honestly put a lot of the fault and a lot of the bad work - on of course some architects who are just bad - but also on the developers they're hired by as well as the team leads and project managers at SRM itself.
Expect SRM to get even worse as time goes on, by the way...hah. You may notice that they've recently put up some blue signs on active sites they did the design for? One that is easy to spot is on the fence of the construction site across from Grand River Hospital. It says SRM Architects and Ubran Planning now. They recently merged with MSAi out of the GTA and are attempting to use the talent from MSAi to help SRM move into the urban design field. But just click the link on the link above...they're awful and unfortunately many of the staff from there are now in leadership positions at SRM.
Anyway, fortunately this project isn't by SRM. I think it's an ugly design nonetheless. Too many right angles, too much precast, tiny windows, very little use of colour, flat facades. Vive has no desire to design anything that looks actually nice. These sort of buildings honestly remind me of the sort of tower blocks found in eastern Berlin that the German Democratic Republic built all over the place. It's purely functional architecture.
SRM is bad but they do have some people working there who have some skills. If you pull up the People page under Our Firm and just Google search the names of people who have B.Arch or M.Arch degrees, you can sometimes find the public portfolios of some of their team. I honestly put a lot of the fault and a lot of the bad work - on of course some architects who are just bad - but also on the developers they're hired by as well as the team leads and project managers at SRM itself.
Expect SRM to get even worse as time goes on, by the way...hah. You may notice that they've recently put up some blue signs on active sites they did the design for? One that is easy to spot is on the fence of the construction site across from Grand River Hospital. It says SRM Architects and Ubran Planning now. They recently merged with MSAi out of the GTA and are attempting to use the talent from MSAi to help SRM move into the urban design field. But just click the link on the link above...they're awful and unfortunately many of the staff from there are now in leadership positions at SRM.
Anyway, fortunately this project isn't by SRM. I think it's an ugly design nonetheless. Too many right angles, too much precast, tiny windows, very little use of colour, flat facades. Vive has no desire to design anything that looks actually nice. These sort of buildings honestly remind me of the sort of tower blocks found in eastern Berlin that the German Democratic Republic built all over the place. It's purely functional architecture.