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I've complained about the orientation of the larger tower before -- it's arranged to face Yonge Street, which is not actually perpendicular to Eglinton, whereas all the other buildings on Eglinton orient to that street. This makes the E Condos tower the odd one out in the street wall. But I hadn't realized until seeing them that the smaller tower is oriented to Roehampton, parallel to Eglinton, and thus the two towers are not oriented to each other, either:

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Maybe I'm too hung up on symmetry, but the angle just feels weird to me -- not enough to feel intentional or have a pleasing effect, but just enough to notice it's "off".
 

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I've complained about the orientation of the larger tower before -- it's arranged to face Yonge Street, which is not actually perpendicular to Eglinton, whereas all the other buildings on Eglinton orient to that street. This makes the E Condos tower the odd one out in the street wall. But I hadn't realized until seeing them that the smaller tower is oriented to Roehampton, parallel to Eglinton, and thus the two towers are not oriented to each other, either:

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Maybe I'm too hung up on symmetry, but the angle just feels weird to me -- not enough to feel intentional or have a pleasing effect, but just enough to notice it's "off".

I adore the lack of symmetry and think we need much more of it in the city. It's those sorts of details (among many others, of course), that differentiate Toronto -- with its crop of generally bland North American Anywheresville contemporary towers -- from the downtown cores of most American cities.

Give me lots of weird angles and offsets, please.
 
Some angles provide thoughtful artistry -- this just looks sloppy. (Again, the specific angle wasn't really chosen, it was dictated by the angle of Yonge at Eglinton.)
 
Some angles provide thoughtful artistry -- this just looks sloppy. (Again, the specific angle wasn't really chosen, it was dictated by the angle of Yonge at Eglinton.)

Those are some of the best types, to my eye -- one of the things I love about so much of the architecture (tall and otherwise) in Tokyo are the crazily shaped sites, which are often dictated by the winding and angled roads.
 

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