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Hey, don't take your anger out on SP!RE, he didn't design the thing. He's most certainly correct that this is the final product. And we're all pretty firmly in the what-a-shame camp.
 
I'm undecided on the siding. But, by the looks of it, it's probably going to retain dirt/soot from rainfall. Unless it's maintained well, my guess is that it looks ugly within 5 years.
 
I feel like the architect was trying to do something ironic... sort of a "look how institutional this building will look-- JK! We've added colour spots!" idea. Unfortunately, the effect isn't convincing :(.
 
CanadianNational said:
The arts centre is self-evidently mannerist modernism, flirting with the tropisms of a pendantic reverie (i.e. the siting and notional materials of the common toolshed), whilst rescuing them aloft through a illumined and redemptive (whislt unforgiving, yes, even exaggerated and mocking) framework of abstruse public and canonically pendantic structural efficiencies - which do not fail to overextend the common into the unheimlich.
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I have a feeling like this is a "parody" of Urban Shocker..
 
Xray_Crystal_Junkie said:
Hey, don't take your anger out on SP!RE, he didn't design the thing. He's most certainly correct that this is the final product. And we're all pretty firmly in the what-a-shame camp.
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Where do you see anger in my comment? I was just asking what building in downtown Toronto had aluminum siding with all the screws showing because I can't think of any. I was certainly not angry but I am disappointed with the siding.

I noticed that they have now begun to paint the white siding, on the back of the building, different colours. It looks kind of strange. Another thing I find strange is that there are small gaps in the siding and you can see the green insulation material between the gaps. That's another reason I felt another layer of siding was going up. It just looks unprofessional to see the insulation between the aluminum panels.
 
The RP Arts & Culture Centre
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I like the colour with the white paneling, but otherwise they have chosen a material palette that clashes with itself multiple times. Eek. There's a right way to do whimsical/colourful and a wrong way. I think here they did the wrong way : /
 
The panelled portion reminds me of those old school portables, but jazzed up with colour. I actually don't hate it for the nostalgia that it brings (I had quite a few classes in portables back in the elementary school days). Though it's certainly not my first choice, and ultimately does look cheap, there's a bit of no nonsense fun in the design.
 
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