LowPolygon
Senior Member
By comparison, this is joy. If only a bunch of kids could do likewise with Boston City Hall, or whatever...
wow--totally fantastic!
By comparison, this is joy. If only a bunch of kids could do likewise with Boston City Hall, or whatever...
Interesting you should further prostrate yourself before Kuwabara's name when that SOM building looks quite similar to one which he would produce - the point I was trying to make when originally posting ('spamming') it. Also interesting that you would mention the articles and quotes which you have posted ad nauseam as being appropriate to the discussion, blithely unaware that you, yourself, are 'spammmmmming.' Lastly, why claim that this isn't a 'one-solution-fits-all town' when you seem to be the key proponent of a pigeon-hole 'style' which which is just that?
The grass is greener elsewhere (The Netherlands), and I do wear said 'disconnect' as a badge of pride.
Your committment to the inauthentic means you'll only be content when Toronto becomes somewhere it isn't, and has nothing to do with local design culture. Your timid and conservative denial of local excellence in favour of subservience to the Dutch, the pretentious historical dreck purveyed by the dull Mr. Stern, and Renzo the Roofer shows the depth of your wallow.
"quite similar" and "would produce" - here we go again, assuming that you know what a given local architect would do based on some foreign model.
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To paraphrase alkay, "I hate to break it some, but there are plenty of cities with this sort of faux-chateau style, or suburban-mediterranean, or any other non-contextual ersatz style for that matter. We did not invent it, we are not the only ones doing it. And its not the only thing thats going on in this city."
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To make one waggish suggestion, if these circular definitions are to be accepted, then the chipboard chateaus of North York, far more numerous than any neo-modernist affair downtown, should also show evidence of a Toronto style (of chipboard chateau), since they, too, are the result of a shared community of practice and a shared context. (And perhaps they do?). I am left with nothing, if our Toronto Style is inevitable, arising from our particular context and arising from a shared practice.
That's another collective dialogue that's taking place - in his RAIC interview Kuwabara talks of how "Our work suggests a composite assemblage of urbanism. For example, in the case of the National Ballet School - the presence of the point towers by Peter Clewes from architects Alliance that are part of the overall development are fundamental to the success of our built component to the project. Our composition is both figure and ground relative to the heritage buildings as well as to the base of the towers. There is also a whole scaling thing in relation to the other buildings along Jarvis Street. It is interesting to see how the whole project which included new dance studios, heritage buildings and two point towers came together. I consider the project to be a remarkable mix of residential and institutional architecture that speaks to what the city is as we live in it today."