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If you look at the renderings that are more zoomed in, there is a dichromatic pattern all along the cream exterior, which may suggest brickwork.

Hey, you're right, I should stop saying stucco, that is my mistake. I just have trouble differentiating stucco and precast concrete, although I know they are completely different, their whitewash effects makes me cringe. They're stuccoing a nice, old, red brick house just at Davisville and...

Amazing. Thanks. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thought it was an eyesore...

Hey, really! That's terrific. It must be my mistake. I could have sworn I saw a rendering yesterday on site, but perhaps it was my negative bias playing with me. Thanks for the clarification.

I like most of these X condos, but where I start to feel vomit being induced is when my eyes reach the top of the towers and see those giant, black, mechanical boxes. Nothing says "I don't care" like giant mechanical boxes jutting out from the top of a tower. The X towers honestly remind me...

Man! That is hideous! A giant box with protruding balconies, some of which are glass while others are stucco? Christ! Someone please tell me that the giant cream exterior is brick and not stucco/precast... please. I live 10 minutes from here. I was at the farmer's market yesterday across...

I was against these towers for a long while, but I must say they have turned out very nicely and are a great addition to the skyline, especially driving along the Gardiner Parking Lot. Thankfully, they were built after the Green Glass craze and act as a temper to the ubiquity of emerald in...

Wow, I almost spat out my tea! You nailed it with this comment. I couldn't agree with you more. EDIT: Although, I must say, those white lines cheapen the look of the building immensely, in my opinion at least...

Ok then, well regardless of how often it chips or doesn't chip off, it looks absolutely awful. Is it really that much more money to do a brick exterior for the podium instead of pre-cast concrete, formed and shaped to look like plaster/stone? I honestly wonder what percentage amount of...

Is it really? Well, stucco or precast, it looks horrid and cheap and about to chip off any moment.

I honestly don't know about this podium. I drove by it today and noticed that they are using stucco as the exterior. What a disaster! Is it just me, or does stucco cheapen anything it touches? The stucco that is widely used today chips easily, stains terribly from water and weather...

Ha, that's not bad actually. Look, I realize that this design is harking back hundreds of years to a style that is no longer contemporary, but so what? I am not against current architecture, I just find that most current architecture lacks character and style, simply because glass boxes are...

Ha, wow, It's been 6 years since you made that comment and I'm only reading it now! I'm sure everyone on these boards who values cheap-modern-aesthetics such as steel siding, plastic tiling and green glass will nearly vomit at this development, but I drive by it everyday and I think it's...

It looks to me like a nice, futuristic looking attempt which just looks too clinical and sterile in person. The wavy windows do not in any way, help ameliorate the rudimentary look of the rest of the building. These square, glass chunks are becoming too ubiquitous, regardless of whether it's...

I believe that you are in a small minority of people who like Brutalism.

First of all Deepend, thanks for attempting to say that I don't know anything about architecture. In fact, you just didn't see a quite obvious connection I was making. I'll try and clear it up. And with your "sophistry" comment, please, give me a break. You're right, I did make up the...

Good for you.

Is it just me, or is it still NOT a flattering term. Brut (en francais): (of wine, esp. champagne) very dry. [1890–95; < French: (more generally) raw, unprocessed, brutish; And just like many other nomenclatures, words and names don't become universal until a good amount of time after they...

There's a reason the style has been called "Brutalism" and not "Beautifulism". There will always be people who like Soviet-esque architecture, but they, and you, I believe, are in quite a small minority. As I drove up St. George yesterday, the discordance of Robarts among everything else...

Hey, you're right, there are philistines like you out there. People who admire depressing, drab, concrete slabs. Thankfully, there aren't many like you anymore, and we don't have more "Brutalist" disasters being built today. By the way, I'm sure you know this, but "brutalism" is a...