I mean, I'm not gonna defend G+C or anything, but it does look cleaner with the balconies installed. They do obscure and distract from some of the spandrel and mullions.
Considering some of the truly awful crap out there, how someone could find a plain glass box ugly blows my mind. Boring? Plain? Sure. Ugly? Ugliest ever? That just doesn't compute to me.
No offense intended, but I'm genuinely curious... what projects in this city do you actually like? You seem to be very critical of almost every project. (Full disclosure I'm a big Teeple fan)
Wow I had no idea this one was already above ground level. I guess this is what happens when you don't pay attention to a project because it's painfully bland.
You can't really say that what's on this site now is a winner either. I don't love block-size podiums but it's hard to say that this will make this stretch of Yonge worse.