Who? In January fiendishlibrarian and CanadianNational both predicted that both buildings would be under construction this year, EnviroTO predicted the office tower would, and I predicted the Ritz would.
The new rendering of the 41s RBC is a strange one given the tower is on the identical background (same POV) as the "soaring" 48s version first released.... in fact this version is made to appear nearly 1/3rd shorter not 7 floors shorter.
The real impact @ 610' plus whatever... will be huge on Wellington Street.
Here's a quicky impression of the Olsen twins at sunrise... Wellington never looked so good/
wow that is the first render I have seen of both towers together. AND it is the first time I have actually liked the Ritz Building..it looks far less boxy in this rendering.
Wellington desperately needs something like this here... and it desperately needs some trees between john and peter - that stretch in front of icon i and ii feels like a desert!
I don't know..something about the blandness of the RBC, the slant of the Ritz, the mismatched podiums (heights and setbacks)...they just don't look right side-by-side. Considering it's the same developer, little effort seems to have been made to try and have the two buildings complement each other.
yeah...maybe if a better rendering of the two comes out it might be an improvement but the Ritz is definitely set back farther from the street than RBC; and a 9 storey podium of office space is not going to be the same height as the Ritz' 4 or 5 banquet hall podium. Anyway, as always, I guess we will have to wait for the finished product before judging too harshly.