Chronamut
Active Member
This could have been so much better.. sighs sadly
Hamilton 129-131 Wellington Street North | 15.19m | 4s | WQP | RAW Design
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TheHonestMaple
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these look great
Edit: I'm genuinely confused by the criticism of these. They look fine. Sure, they aren't quite the same quality as the Augusta building of a similar look. But they're still ok. Plus, they're in a slightly seedier area of the city - so they will never be able to generate as much revenue. So the fact that they came out looking as good as they do within their budget and future cash flows, is pretty great.
Edit: I'm genuinely confused by the criticism of these. They look fine. Sure, they aren't quite the same quality as the Augusta building of a similar look. But they're still ok. Plus, they're in a slightly seedier area of the city - so they will never be able to generate as much revenue. So the fact that they came out looking as good as they do within their budget and future cash flows, is pretty great.
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Chronamut
Active Member
It's pretty much the jughead eye windows filled in windows and the sloppy looking seams that I have an issue with. If they had kept to the render imo it would have been fine.. but.. for some bizarre reason,, they did not.
Chris R.
Senior Member
Yea the brick panels are fine, it's just the blocked in windows. It's like they got a architect to design it, then changed the interior layout but didn't want to pay the architect to redraw the building without the windows... Just an odd choice all around. Looks really weird. They could have literally just not done the cut out shape and it would have looked fine.
BrenWilson
Active Member
Precast conrete brick panels look bad and the bricked in windows make zero sense and make it look like an abandoned building - simple as that. This was a fine design ruined by value engineering and shoddy construction.
Branden Simon
Senior Member
Getting closer to completion - The planters and mailbox. Some windows are need to finish the work. (November 6, 2024)
Chris R.
Senior Member
It's not the worst thing Hamilton has seen, it's just the execution is so odd. In the end, hoping this is a learning opportunity for a developer of small missing Middle housing on how to do better next time. Ultimately this provides housing stock for the type of people that don't want to live in a large condo/apartment block, but also don't need or want ground oriented dwellings. Glad to see it near completion.
IamNotaRobot
New Member
Dare I say some cornices probably would have helped break up the brick a little bit lol
Hawrylyshyn
Active Member
Add cornices and get rid of the stupid full and 1/2 bricked windows and it's actually a decent little project.
berklon
New Member
I wonder if it would look better if they simply painted the bricks on the 1/2 bricked windows black.
Labranche
New Member
Chronamut
Active Member
Wow.. small/cramped, crappy looking on the outside, AND ridiculously expensive, the trifecta!
KingJames
Active Member
Strange bulkheads at the windows on the inside of that unit. I'm actually impressed someone actually invested in that area of the city. Some black back painted glass in those fake blocked in window wells would make this one better.
Branden Simon
Senior Member
December 10, 2024 and it’s now call The Bridge Apartments with signs saying now renting
