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Summer is almost here. 20C and Biidaasige Park and is very busy already... And they finally placed stone paths between...

Looks pretty close to the render:

Very true. I love this proposal but they'll definitely have to address the base. Too bad they don't build more towers like this.

Pretty blatant van der Rohe imitation by a-A... Love it or hate it, minimalist design like this can be difficult to get through...

You're right - and it's not fair of me to judge it before it's all finished. My admittedly knee-jerk reaction was based on Toronto's...

Yes.

Are the Cinesphere and pods supposed to be come part of the new Science Centre?

My guess is the precast is to anchor the bottom half of the tower back to the heritage facades. Having glass shoot up from a 3 storey...

Yeah exactly. I feel like a lot of our architecture firms are obsessed with "breaking up the massing" but like, the massing is what it...

Also interesting to see how the final towers turned out. At one point no other project led to more speculation than the final Cityplace...

Why did they decide on beige panels? Hard to see them aging well. I'm curious why they went with this particular design choice. The...

^Agree. It should look fine from the north/south, and not-so-fine from the east/west. I do like the white accents though, and wish...

A bit hyperbolic, if you ask me. I’ve been to 57 countries and I can tell you that there are many cities with architecture worse than...

Honestly, for a billion dollars, we should be able to build our own Sydney Opera House. I'm fine with this, I trust HP and Snohetta to...

I don't mind the design, but can't help but feel I should be more impressed for a $1 billion project. Hard to justify it being smaller...