Toronto 159SW Condos | 118.87m | 36s | Alterra | Richmond Architects

[greenleaf]

Who picks those God awful colours? Ugh. This is grim. Spandrel mess.

 

[Adjei]

Absolutely garbage.

 

[WiddleBittyKitty]

This…

New rendering from Diamondcorp

looks far more sophisticated than this:

From the Alterra website:

Wow. Terrible. The previous Quadrangle iteration wasn't the most beautiful thing ever but it had this pile beat by miles.

100% agreement. The new version is cheap cheap cheap.

 

[Roy G Biv]

That is a hideous mess. Imagine how bad it will look in real life.

 

[dougtoronto]

This is quite unfortunate.

 

[Towered]

How often have we seen a revised proposal that is better than the original?

 

[ProjectEnd]

Trump comes immediately to mind. But that's more a hideous to slightly-less-hideous transformation...

To top it all off, it was the design-illiterate hacks at Kirkor that had the original commission.

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[stjames2queenwest]

Never seen that before. That's very.... Chicago

 

[LUVIT!]

I wish that was built actually

 

[ptbotrmpfn]

I wish that was built actually

what a great looking design. though i do like what was built. the scale reduction was a shame though.

 

[Amare]

Its funny that Toronto likes to compare itself to Chicago. At least Chicago has many inspiring designs for their new developments, Toronto on the other hand not so much.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Its funny that Toronto likes to compare itself to Chicago. At least Chicago has many inspiring designs for their new developments, Toronto on the other hand not so much.

Frankly speaking, Toronto has some really good towers currently going up (Tableau, Picasso, 1BE, Karma, LTower+Crane, all of River City, Casa III, BAC, Eau de Soleil, Massey Tower), and others planned (1BW, 1-7 Yonge, YC Condos, Bay Park, Mirvish+Gehry). And I am sure others I have forgotten.

Only Minto 30 Roe, the Dundas Square tower and Hotel X are really terrible.

 

[TheKingEast]

Frankly speaking, Toronto has some really good towers currently going up (Tableau, Picasso, 1BE, Karma, LTower+Crane, all of River City, Casa III, BAC, Eau de Soleil, Massey Tower), and others planned (1BW, 1-7 Yonge, YC Condos, Bay Park, Mirvish+Gehry). And I am sure others I have forgotten.

Only Minto 30 Roe, the Dundas Square tower and Hotel X are really terrible.

Many of those you named are just plain glass boxes though. So many condos get built here on the cheap hence the basic glass boxes, anything somewhat different gets applauded. But if you look at what's getting built around the world there is quite a bit more imagination in the design. Even the "cool" towers are mostly glass boxes with a bit of variation in the balcony shape or glass.

I do like Tableau, Piasso, 1 BE, LTower and River City, etc...but there aren't many more I'd say are all that special and even the ones I named are cool for Toronto but in the grand scheme of things aren't all that great.

We don't have a lot of BAD ones but we have a lot of plain, boring ones. Can't go wrong when you cover a box with glass.

 

[CanadianNational]

There's nothing quite like going to a store named 'Signage'.

 

[Amare]

Many of those you named are just plain glass boxes though. So many condos get built here on the cheap hence the basic glass boxes, anything somewhat different gets applauded. But if you look at what's getting built around the world there is quite a bit more imagination in the design. Even the "cool" towers are mostly glass boxes with a bit of variation in the balcony shape or glass.

Agreed, and for every one Picasso or Massey Towers, we get 10-15 159 Wellesleys or Westlakes.