TheHonestMaple
Active Member
A different perspective of this development that I don't think i've seen on here before. Love the urban vibe Hamilton has.
![1Hk0g81.png](https://i.imgur.com/1Hk0g81.png)
This angle highlights in a way I haven't appreciated before the unusual design decisions that shaped this into what it is. Why build basically a sideways skyscraper that a vertical skyscraper emerges from? Why not build two tall buildings, one facing James and one facing Hughson, with a reasonable podium connecting them? On the one hand, this creates the weird 10+ storey wall that runs the whole length of the block along Jackson. On the other hand, I guess this design also does a great favour to the owner of the parking lot at Main and Hughson, offering a far superior environment for that parcel to be developed into a high-rise in the future. But the developer of this site wouldn't care much about that (right? LIUNA doesn't own the parking lot as far as I know... who does?)... I would love to be a fly on the years-ago wall to hear how these counter-intuitive design decisions got made.
Edit: Quick math tells me that if any one of the 4th-8th floors of this building were turned sideways, it would be one of the top 10 tallest buildings in Hamilton. Incredibly weird design!