innsertnamehere
Superstar
take a visit to platform 24, where it has been fixed up. it isn't that bad.
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GO Transit: Union Station Shed Replacement & Track Upgrades (Zeidler)
whatever
Senior Member
Once it's all done is that steel platform toward the SW corner of the roof going to be removed? I get that they need an access point for servicing, but it would look so much better if they could hide some of that equipment inside the roof below the glass.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Article by John Lorinc in Spacing Wire - plus photos of the inside of the glass shed.
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2013/08/19/lorinc-union-station-re-visited/
AoD
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2013/08/19/lorinc-union-station-re-visited/
AoD
Platform 27
Active Member
Hank
Active Member
Apologies if this has been asked/answered before, but is there a reason that we cant "upgrade" the existing bush shed to install the glass roof that the design originally called for? Respect the heritage element while also allowing light in?
TOareaFan
Superstar
Isn't that exactly what is happening?
nfitz
Superstar
Is it? I thought they were going to simply restore it to how it was constructed, not how it was originally designed. Would the latter preclude a green roof?
TOareaFan
Superstar
I was going at the specific point of letting in light (which the new glass bit clearly does) while respecting the heritage...what better way of respecting heritage than, you know, keeping it around and functioning.
christiesplits
Senior Member
I think once the glass shed is complete and they paint and cover the heritage shed with white paint and grass I think it will work well as a whole with a nice balance between old and new.
Hank
Active Member
Yes, the current reno lets some light in and respects the heritage element. I was suggesting that they could let MORE light in (and continue to respect the heritage element) by adding the glass portions to the existing roof, as it was originally designed.
nfitz
Superstar
I 100% agree. I think if they restore it to the original condition after construction (which I believe is the plan), then it's a wasted opportunity.
tayser
Active Member
To quote/paraphrase the great man, Hadid's proposal is bird shit architecture - like all starchitects - at its best:
The Flinders St design comp was an incoming Liberal Government's brainfart - no commitment to funding, but they wanted a competition.
Hadid's saving grace was the eastern entrance - they in effect wanted to move the tram stop (world's busiest) south onto Princes Bridge and effectively bring Federation Square directly into the station - genius. But the rest of the building would just be another brand name and it was basically a shopping centre inside: yawn.
The winner, Hassell (minor partner Herzog de Meuron) had far better interaction with the river, the roof was a throw back to the original train shed design and focused on more cultural than commercial uses outside its primary purpose of being a train station. Doubt anything will start for a decade or more.
I'm actually liking this new Union revitalisation project - why? because it's sensible. More sensible than any of the FSS proposals - HASSELL, like many, saw the need to extend the concourse over the tracks and re-use that space, and looking at the Union proposal there's a lot of scope for future projects to do the same.
CapitalSeven
Senior Member
Stick to your knitting architecture is better than bird shit architecture, or How I Learned to Stop Envying and Love the Shed.
CanadianNational
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