1 St Thomas (Lee Development, 29s, Stern)

[andreapalladio]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

I always think that the BCE place towers look more like their contemporaries, Swatch pens, than anything from 5 years earlier.

Or maybe it was just because I had Swatch pens that looked like that.

 

[adma]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

Actually, the BCE tower is less neo-Deco than neo-Constructivist, a la Kharkov's Gosprom

 

[raptor]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

Today, 04.03.2007

 

[Canuck 36]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

This building bothers me for some reason I can't quite explain.

 

[buildup]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

It doesn't bother me at all, but I can't quite explain why either.

 

[yyzer]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

somehow this building looks too clean to me....maybe it will improve with a bit of grime...give it a couple of years...lol..

btw, thanks for these and the other pics, raptor, and welcome to the forum....

 

[Greg29Toronto]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

I've found when viewing it from within a few blocks it's pleasing but from a distance it looses it's punch.

 

[Ed007Toronto]

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In a couple of years it'll become hemmed in from all sides and will not be all that noticable.

 

[wyliepoon]

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Maybe what this building needs is some gargoyles.

 

[SD2]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

Maybe it just needs to age a little.

 

[AndrewJM3D]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

Maybe with some greenery on the balconies and terraces will help as well.

 

[adma]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

It's probably the too-whiteness that bugs. Sorta like a ghost, or a plaster-case, or Rome's Victor Emmanuel, etc...

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

...or a refugee from Joseph Conrad's 'sepulchural city'...

 

[tudararms]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

I think the balconies will help make it look a little less wedding-cakey.

 

[jgreebnerg76]

Re: 1 St. Thomas

Crane coming down

JG