Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/C

[ac3r]

It's an eyesore you can see from across the entire region.

[mastermind]

This tower crane is coming down today.

[Acitta]

2026-06-03

   
   
   
   
   

[westwardloo]

What were they thinking with this building. Balconies just stop randomly half way up the building. The wall facing DTK is basically just a blank grey precast wall for 32 storey up. The sprinkle of white panels 20 stories up somehow make this building even worse. The Architects should be ashamed of what they produced.

[neonjoe]

What were they thinking with this building. Balconies just stop randomly half way up the building. The wall facing DTK is basically just a blank  grey precast wall  for 32 storey up. The sprinkle of white panels 20 stories up somehow make this building even worse. The Architects should be ashamed of what they produced.

I think there is supposed to be another tower attached on the downtown side.

[ZEBuilder]

What were they thinking with this building. Balconies just stop randomly half way up the building. The wall facing DTK is basically just a blank  grey precast wall  for 32 storey up. The sprinkle of white panels 20 stories up somehow make this building even worse. The Architects should be ashamed of what they produced.

The blank wall will blocked by the phase 2 portion of this building, right now they have only built about half of the building, the entire wing going towards King hasn't been built, as such the blank wall is only temporary.

[Rainrider22]

I guess that explains why it looks nothing like the rendering...

[ac3r]

The wall facing DTK is basically just a blank  grey precast wall  for 32 storey up. The sprinkle of white panels 20 stories up somehow make this building even worse. The Architects should be ashamed of what they produced.

So true. Whoever the hell is responsible for this is the absolute worst. This isn't the only Vive montrosity that has that random sprinkling of different colours of precast. It's like they bought the wrong colour and just said to use it. I know that really ugly Vive apartment over by Freeport hospital does the same. One wall is just this MASSIVE blank thing with a sprinkling of different shades of precast. It makes absolutely no design sense. But this one takes the cake...it looks like an urban prison or some commieblock you'd find in North Korea.

[Bjays93]

The wall facing DTK is basically just a blank  grey precast wall  for 32 storey up. The sprinkle of white panels 20 stories up somehow make this building even worse. The Architects should be ashamed of what they produced.

So true. Whoever the hell is responsible for this is the absolute worst. This isn't the only Vive montrosity that has that random sprinkling of different colours of precast. It's like they bought the wrong colour and just said to use it. I know that really ugly Vive apartment over by Freeport hospital does the same. One wall is just this MASSIVE blank thing with a sprinkling of different shades of precast. It makes absolutely no design sense. But this one takes the cake...it looks like an urban prison or some commieblock you'd find in North Korea.

You don’t understand. We need housing and you’re just being an architecture snob. 

Or so I’m told every time I complain about how this region has squandered a once in a lifetime opportunity to totally reinvent itself and has managed to somehow go significantly backwards with new construction that looks worse than cheap construction from 20+ years ago. 

Buildings like TEK should be the absolute floor for what we accept. It’s not good, but it’s fine, passable and can fade into the background. Unfortunately it’s one of the best new builds.

[bravado]

Do any municipalities have meaningful legal power to force developers to build "nice" things? This really seems like a complaint that we expect the market to deal with, but since the market is so insanely skewed by restrictive land policies, developers can build whatever they want.

Nice buildings come from a culture that induces them, not from strict rules that can't be enforced anyways - nor would I trust anyone who says they are a design and taste expert. We built beautiful thingsin the past because we valued beauty. We legislated beauty away some time ago when they invented zoning and turned the city into a cold transaction between "taxpayers".

Architects only exist today to go live in old buildings with beauty and charm and build new monstrosities that they thankfully don't need to live in. Why would we listen to them? I have no time to be lectured to by people who can't build beautiful things for real people even if they legally could, meanwhile real people are just looking a roof over their head in a system that tries to block that as much as possible.

Every policitical and social sphere in this city and province and country treats higher density housing as pollution and now we have to be lectured to about how the scraps we eventually get are ugly and cheap?