900 King St W | 25 fl | U/C

[CuilTard]

I just wish the LRT traction power substation had been designed to be integrated into future development. There is no good reason why it has to permanently sterilize a significant plot of land.

Nothing that a couple of benches and/or trees couldn't hide.  A mural might be another option.

Yeah a couple trees make it completely disappear:

[westwardloo]

Nothing that a couple of benches and/or trees couldn't hide.  A mural might be another option.

Yeah a couple trees make it completely disappear:

Man srm Architects are complete trash. Everyone who works at that firm should be ashamed of what they have done to our city. They basically just copied DTK tower design. They need to send all of their architects/ designers to a class in podium design/ how to create a "crown" for the tower.

[ac3r]

I think a lot of the blame goes to the senior staff and the clients the firm gets. If you go to their website, visit the staff page then Google some of the names you can find some portfolios and past student work. They're not all bad at design and I've known one person who worked for them and she's a very good architect. But because they take on cheap projects from developers who only care about the bottom line, their designers are forced to create awful work. It's a shame they sink so low, but architecture is a very underpaid line of work so you can understand why a good architect will sigh and accept the job.

But yeah. The leaders at SRM as well as the developers who hire them should be ashamed of what they've done to this region.

[CuilTard]

Noticed yesterday that the back is also quite far along

[westwardloo]

Noticed yesterday that the back is also quite far along

They used all of the same materials as DTK. God I hate our Regions architects and developers. This could have looked somewhat presentable if they had just used the black curtain wall for the entire facade instead of doing strips of white curtain wall at the ends. The backside looks a little better than the front, but easily the 3rd ugliest tower built in the cores in the past 5 years. Number 1  is easily the Vertikal monstrosity, number 2 goes to DTK.

[ZEBuilder]

Melloul-Blamey (project manager) had a roof topping/name reveal for the project this past week, If I can count properly they still need another floor or two but this kind of event never happens when the project is actually topped out so it's not entirely suprising.

Regardless Cantiro (the developer) will be calling and marketing this project as "Giorgio".

[CuilTard]

Feb 1

[Vojnik_Vahaj]

They used all of the same materials as DTK. God I hate our Regions architects and developers. This could have looked somewhat presentable if they had just used the black curtain wall for the entire facade instead of doing strips of white curtain wall at the ends. The backside looks a little better than the front, but easily the 3rd ugliest tower built in the cores in the past 5 years. Number 1  is easily the Vertikal monstrosity, number 2 goes to DTK.

Idk if you mean the Drewlo development infront of Cameron Heights by Vertikal, but if so idk why people always dunk on it, I quite like that one

[tomh009]

They used all of the same materials as DTK. God I hate our Regions architects and developers. This could have looked somewhat presentable if they had just used the black curtain wall for the entire facade instead of doing strips of white curtain wall at the ends. The backside looks a little better than the front, but easily the 3rd ugliest tower built in the cores in the past 5 years. Number 1  is easily the Vertikal monstrosity, number 2 goes to DTK.

Idk if you mean the Drewlo development infront of Cameron Heights by Vertikal, but if so idk why people always dunk on it, I quite like that one

That spandrel looks the same as the spandrel on DTK Condos at Duke/Frederick.

[ac3r]

Idk if you mean the Drewlo development infront of Cameron Heights by Vertikal, but if so idk why people always dunk on it, I quite like that one

It's almost so bad it's good.

Unironically, if they actually took a little time on it they could have made the conscious choice to make it look as wacky as it does but in a "tasteful" way like many post-modern buildings from the 1980s which used a lot of colour and bold choices in their design language. But because they used super cheap materials, it just looks like a super cheap building. That thing is going to age as well as a moist cheese sandwich left out in the sun.

[Vojnik_Vahaj]

Idk if you mean the Drewlo development infront of Cameron Heights by Vertikal, but if so idk why people always dunk on it, I quite like that one

It's almost so bad it's good.

Unironically, if they actually took a little time on it they could have made the conscious choice to make it look as wacky as it does but in a "tasteful" way like many post-modern buildings from the 1980s which used a lot of colour and bold choices in their design language. But because they used super cheap materials, it just looks like a super cheap building. That thing is going to age as well as a moist cheese sandwich left out in the sun.

Fair enough actually, I can see the vision

[westwardloo]

It's almost so bad it's good.

Unironically, if they actually took a little time on it they could have made the conscious choice to make it look as wacky as it does but in a "tasteful" way like many post-modern buildings from the 1980s which used a lot of colour and bold choices in their design language. But because they used super cheap materials, it just looks like a super cheap building. That thing is going to age as well as a moist cheese sandwich left out in the sun.

Fair enough actually, I can see the vision

Was that vision to build as cheap as possible with little to no thought on material choices and building form? This building is hideous. It looks 25 years old and it's not even complete yet.

[ac3r]

Vertikal unironically looks like they just bought a bunch of random stuff that was on sale. Whatever was in the leftover bin, so they had to somehow combine a bunch of different things together and ended up with...that.

[CuilTard]

A few more grey and wood panels up

[tomh009]

Is it real wood or a nice imitation? Because real wood, as much as I love it, starts looking bad fairly quickly, and few property managers will make the effort to refinish it/