12-22-2025, 02:44 PM
(12-22-2025, 10:49 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-22-2025, 10:02 AM)westwardloo Wrote: Wow what an incredible downgrade from what we were going to get pre-covid. This is hideous. It looks like a worse version of the old folks homes that are scattered around the region.
It's a similar style ... but, yes, I would call it a downgrade.
Original design:
New design:
It is similar, but worse in every aspect. This thing was value engineered to oblivion. Instead of brick they are using stucco, instead of "limestone" they are using that ugly stone that makes its way onto way to many buildings for how ugly it is. They are including an Mansard roof, but only at the front facade. Mansard roofs are incredible hard to make look good. The original design had incorporated it nicely, but with the new design it would look better without this detail. The Balconies locations are slightly different, which makes the building look odd. There is no longer an suttle inset detailing around the windows or a concrete ledger below the windows, which was a nice detail to breakup the wall of brick. Instead its just 4 straight floors of flat beige stucco.
At the end of the day, they could have copied the old design, switched out the limestone for concrete block like Bara on Queen, used a prefab concrete panel stamped with brick, painted red and completely removed the top floor mansard roof and it would have looked great. Instead we are getting another hideous rental property to go with the rest. I am so done with the architects and developers that work in this region. There is no pride in what they produce.