Toronto Cumberland Square | 253.92m | 75s | KingSett Capital | Giannone Petricone

[Midtown Urbanist]

Was the Safdie proposal designed on Minecraft?

 

[smably]

Truly bizarre, totally impractical, probably terrible urbanism, and yet somehow I'm into it.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Well here is Safdie's effort

https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/sky-habitat-toronto

Holy Moly, let me sit back and cast that to my TV,
maybe have a sharp beverage or two or something else and listen to some Floyd

 

[Yegger]

Wow I haven’t seen something this dystopian since Bladerunner 2049. I think i see the rather dark appeal to this monster (especially now that we know it is a stale proposal) but the whole concept is terrible from a city building perspective. Did Safdi architects not learn from the failures of the past?

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Well that certainly would have given the CN tower a run for its money in the iconic department.

 

[jje1000]

Wow I haven’t seen something this dystopian since Bladerunner 2049. I think i see the rather dark appeal to this monster (especially now that we know it is a stale proposal) but the whole concept is terrible from a city building perspective. Did Safdi architects not learn from the failures of the past?

It's really just a blown-up version of his Singapore Sky Habitat project. Safdie seems to be into sculptural arcology-ziggurat-type architecture these days. It wouldn't necessarily fit into the fine-grained village architecture of Yorkville, but it would be iconic from day one. I would imagine that urbanistically, the worst it could turn out is like the Manulife Centre.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.de...chitects-singapore-housing/amp/?source=images

 

[The Rover]

That sort of thing is a dime a dozen in Toronto.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Well here is Safdie's effort

https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/sky-habitat-toronto

I am not sure when we renamed Yorkville Babylon.

Truly bizarre, totally impractical, probably terrible urbanism, and yet somehow I'm into it.

All these proposals are audacious and have a metropolitan swagger that none of the piecemeal developments exhibited.

AoD

 

[The Rover]

Safdie's proposal was definitely imaginative, but not as cool as this:

Source

 

[Lachlan Holmes]

I liked both of the design competition entries posted, one would've been elegant, the other would be an icon.

I also like the actual proposal, sans sun beamer, and a better podium for the twin towers please.

 

[ericmacm]

I honestly think you could plop the Safdie proposal in Mississauga somewhere and it wouldn't look too bad. You could put it right next to Square One and it would sell out no problem haha.

 

[interchange42]

Well here is Safdie's effort

https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/sky-habitat-toronto

The Safdie one is a ridiculous behemoth that would never get approved looking anything like that… but yes, I know that these were meant to beat out other firms for a commission, not be the final submission. Anyway, it's so far over the top, I'd love to see the shadow studies that it would have produced, just for a laugh.

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[jje1000]

The Safdie one is a ridiculous behemoth that would never get approved looking anything like that… but yes, I know that these were meant to beat out other firms for a commission, not be the final submission. Anyway, it's so far over the top, I'd love to see the shadow studies that it would have produced, just for a laugh.

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100% bet it would have shaded everything except for Jesse Ketchum.

 

[Lenser]

The Safdie proposal reminds me of floating brutalism.

 

[The Rover]

The Safdie proposal reminds me of floating brutalism.

That’s a clever way of describing a bowel movement.