General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[westwardloo]

Question for you architects and arm chair quarter back architects...

Would you prefer a building like this to anything that has popped up in DTK (or Waterloo as well for that matter)?

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toron...d-toronto/

100%! they don't all have to look like this, but having a couple uniquely designed buildings sprinkled in to break up the precast/ EIFS mess that is DTK and waterloo would be nice. Honestly they don't even need to look like this, we need developers to spend maybe 5-10% more on design and we can have nice look buildings using the same materials. Unfortunately, our region has a race to the bottom for developers in terms of costs and they already started pretty low. Most nice proposals end up stalled or cancelled in our region, but if it involves black, white and grey precast you know it will be built. 

On a side note, as lovely as this building is, the location beside the highway is going to age that white concrete pretty quick. Love that they have rails instead of glass for the guardrails, would love to see that utilized in the region.