adHominem
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Someone's looking a little husky from that angle.
Toronto 160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG
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Yegger
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I like the rounded, curved shape this buidling adds to the skyline dominated mostly by sharp boxes
maestro
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Looking a little husky? Sorry, Homer Simpson. You're fat.
What happens when you take a design and smoosh it by 20 (?) metres
What happens when you take a design and smoosh it by 20 (?) metres
torontologist
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I’m no height fetishist (at least when it comes to buildings) but.... I really wish this was 25% taller.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Agree - that preference has little to do with absolute height - and all to do with proportionality.
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maestro
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Well, this design was intended to be 25ish% taller. It was revised shorter. Instead of having AS+GG design a new sleek version for the shorter height, CF probably had some local design firm hire a photographer to compress the original renderings.
Southcore
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But will the building really be that visible from the lake? That surroundings in the pic seems so dated (is that 1 King West I see under construction with the crane peaking out?)
Marcanadian
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Looks like Bay Adelaide West. So that view is about a decade old.
denfromoakvillemilton
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I love the fact people are getting more creative in their architectural design. This building brings another positive change to the skyline.
marcus_a_j
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From the Ten York thread, a similar viewpoint but very recent.
ProjectEnd
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I dunno if 'sleek' is the adjective I'd use when describing something that's just as dense but only 75% of the height.
Contra
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raptor
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https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...lac-fairview-as-gg.17751/page-62#post-1355352I found the angled cladding to be quite interesting. Hopefully this makes it to the final project...
From AS-GG website.
It's been in the renderings ever since we first saw this design in February 2014, and as it's still there in the Site Plan Application documents, I'm not worried! AS-GG have talked about how every aspect of the design has been weighed for efficiency in terms of thermal performance, in particular the design of the windows!I found the angled cladding to be quite interesting. Hopefully this makes it to the final project...
From AS-GG website.
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Contra
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Knowing it's AS-GG gives me good hope in this one. Especially when there is a concrete goal in mind (in this case efficiency and sustainability). They are one of the firms that simply loves to rise to any challenge (tallest tower many times over being one of them).