Hamilton 11 Robert Street | 19m | 6s | Yoke Group | Lintack Architects

innsertnamehere said:
City land or not, the design of these spaces is done by the landowner and secured through their Site Plan application. It's the landowners responsibility to design and finish the spaces, with the City simply signing off on it.
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I'm well aware, I just think Hamilton planning staff aren't terribly concerned with landscaping and interaction with the public realm, so applicants just propose the bare minimum. One blank green lawn in front of a new building in a central part of the city in a walkable neighbourhood could be an aberration, but two is a pattern.

I do think the building turned out well. It's a great precedent for moderately dense infill and I would be thrilled to see these pop up all over the city like mushrooms after the rain.
 
Milaisacat said:
I'm well aware, I just think Hamilton planning staff aren't terribly concerned with landscaping and interaction with the public realm, so applicants just propose the bare minimum. One blank green lawn in front of a new building in a central part of the city in a walkable neighbourhood could be an aberration, but two is a pattern.

I do think the building turned out well. It's a great precedent for moderately dense infill and I would be thrilled to see these pop up all over the city like mushrooms after the rain.
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You are right, they are not concerned, at all. And they most likely never will be.

It's also entirely possible the developer wanted his tenants to have a view of the armory and not just of.. a tree that would eventually grow and entirely block their view. There is not even a tree in the proposed render, which alludes that they never intended to put one in to begin with.

Heck, the original render just had straight up STONE flagstones for the front, so at least you got SOME landscaping..
 
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