GenerationLee
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Yea....give us something that looks like the Bay n Elm addition...good god no. These are beautiful buildings for the period and are well positioned/planned all throughout.
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AlvinofDiaspar
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And by all accounts these buildings are well-built and not done on the cheap - covering it up and fundamentally changing the outward appearance in the name of updating it would be a travesty.
(The landscaping is also of note - done by the Sasaki)
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Rascacielo
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To me the vertical stripes make it look like the pre-renovation Thomson building (or whatever it's called now), which is from the same era.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Yes, the updated building (401 Bay) turned out atrociously - and that's with expressed vertical elements integral to the original design.
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Rascacielo
Senior Member
Is that the MunichRe building?
Richard White
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401 Bay is the Simpson Tower I believe.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Ding ding ding! The renewal of which is handled by the same firm for this, BTW - be careful what one wishes for.
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Northern Light
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Is it wrong that I almost like the scaffolding on these?
I'm not saying its a desirable finished product, LOL............but it almost serves as an interim design.
officedweller
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Robert did a nice piece about the Sasaki landscape a few years back: https://robertmoffatt115.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/conserving-a-sasaki-landscape/
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Landscape Architecture Magazine had a lengthy article on it back in the early 2000s as well.
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AlbertC
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July 26, 2020
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Aug 29, 2020
ushahid
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No renders of renovation yet 
alexb
Active Member
No renders of renovation yet
No need for a render - it's going to look exactly the same.