Markham 68 Main Street Condominiums | 42.3m | 6s | Sierra | FBP Architects

You have to wonder what possessed the developer of that strip plaza to raise the storefronts a foot above street level, block them off with a fence, and hide them under the shadow of that heavy overhang. It's as if they just wanted to screw with their tenants.
 
Street wall forming

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They're now working on the sections that will be set back from Main Street, so you can see the massing of the street wall.

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The streetfront facades are too rhythmic, and feel like a pastiche. If one or two of them were unified into longer units, it would have been a little more natural.

Anyways, here's hoping that the street level will be well-finished.
 
jje1000 said:
The streetfront facades are too rhythmic, and feel like a pastiche. If one or two of them were unified into longer units, it would have been a little more natural.

Anyways, here's hoping that the street level will be well-finished.
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There's also the fact that each of the facades have floors of the same height, which is a giveaway that they're part of the same building, but it actually still seems to be turning out alright.
 
A very charming street façade and nice mix of window styles, but it would be much nicer if there was some variation of brick colours rather than have everything in the same two tone red and yellow brick.
It's great to see the two residential floors over street level retail, it will contribute well to the streetscape. I would love to see a development like this in parts of downtown Toronto, say Chinatown, Queen Street or Little Italy, though not so faux-period like.
 
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