Toronto 310 Front West | 225.4m | 70s | H&R REIT | Hariri Pontarini

[ProjectEnd]

Is it a poor reflection on me that I read your post as "ball buster"?

edit to add: H&R are struggling lately so their finances are likely not in a place to pull this off. Along with the precon condo market being 80% down.

Nah, I really think they can take on this as well as the two unbuildable jokes at 55 Yonge and 145 Wellington. I bet they do it all at once!

 

[ProjectEnd]

Love of this Art Deco revival aesthetic. We need more of this. Less plain glass facades and 50 shades of grey. Bring in some warmth to the skyline.

I can't fault the sentiment, but this is dreck.

 

[ADRM]

(forget the emptiness of the exercise, this thing is hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrifying)

Yes:

 

[cd concept]

Brown? Really??

This is way better than what they were proposing before! And we definitely need some buildings in this area. From the sea of green, blue, black and white towers that exist. The brown tone colours and thick detailed cladding around the windows etc adds characters. And it's not just a plain rectangular box. But an art deco vibe look from of the early 20th century. Which in my opinion I don't mind them tearing down these two towers this time compared to before.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

(forget the emptiness of the exercise, this thing is hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrifying)

And ProjectEnd-san is a Sailor Moon fan...which is impressive in its own right. <3

 

[UrbanAffair]

(You know what I'm going to say here re: this will not be constructed...)

You didn't even need to say it tbh. We knew. I want to see something built here, but I'd rather not this, so I am ok with this as a 'value creation' exercise. With 50bps looming and another 50pbs in December looming, I have the feels the market will be picking up. Slower than it used to be, but that's my predication.

 

[The Preservationist]

This iteration isn't as sinister looking as the previous rendition. I'm not sure that's a good thing...

 

[Doppleganger]

My initial thoughts are that these have an almost AI-esque quality to them. It's as if someone with a little too much time on their hands prompted an AI image generator to "create a pair of towers that combine elements of Art-Deco, the impossible lines of a Penrose structure and the colour palette of a 1971 kitchen" and this is the monstrosity it spat out at them.

 

[officedweller]

Oh wow. Design inspiration from the Cybertruck.

 

[Sunnyside]

Well, there’s a semblance of a cool design here. But it’s so deeply unserious as presented I don’t want to waste time going over what I like and don’t like. They just want the density approved.

It honestly looks like someone took a proposal from the 905, touched the dimensions, and moved it downtown once the market got sour. All of it with an Art_Deco_Siding.pkg bucket fill.

 

[kris]

It will be made from popsicle sticks

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Oh wow. Design inspiration from the Cybertruck.

...the fact that there is one of those in the renders puts this into a more disturbing perspective here. >.<

 

[Koops65]