Automation Gallery
Superstar
The Toronto Star building Has to be at the top of the list.
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Toronto ugliest highrise building
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grey
Senior Member
ProjectEnd
Superstar
^ We have a winner. Thread closed.
That thing ruins any photograph it manages to sneak in to. G+C should be birched for it.
That thing ruins any photograph it manages to sneak in to. G+C should be birched for it.
junctionist
Senior Member
How is that ugly, or the ugliest? The facade is a basic grid and glass. The cladding is neutral concrete. It's unremarkable at worst.
It doesn't appear to be in an ugly state of disrepair either. If this is the ugliest, then we have nothing to worry about. I'd put it very low on the list.
confusion
Active Member
I don't understand why some people on these forums hate ROCP.
At least they aren't a flat out box and tried something different. Up close maybe they aren't the most attractive thing, but they aren't unattractive.
Also, from a distance I think they look good, especially in skyline photos.
At least they aren't a flat out box and tried something different. Up close maybe they aren't the most attractive thing, but they aren't unattractive.
Also, from a distance I think they look good, especially in skyline photos.
Pinkie
Active Member
I agree with Grey. I hate the new College Park towers. They look so out of place. It's too bad there's nothing we can do about them, being new and all.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
We then enlighten us musters, why should we like these terrible, terrible buildings? Clumsy, akward massing? Cheapo materials? Effete historicism? Why?
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
junctionist: 1 Yonge is clad in peanut brittle, not concrete.
Conrad Black
Senior Member
The problem with the Toronto Star building is that's out in the open. If it was surrounded by other buildings it wouldn't stand out like a sore thumb. Street level sucks though.
Archivist
Senior Member
I'm going to hijack this thread and make it for low-rise buildings. We've had the disastrous highrise discussion dozens of times, why let low-rises off the hook. Here are three of the most loathesome buildings in the city, in my opinion:
1302 King Street West - Truly Brutal, and calling attention to itself with that brick pattern is highly unfortunate.
1550 Queen Street West - Could a building be more without interest than this scabrous affair? This really stands in for any number of like structures, deadening to the street and hideous to behold.
751 Woodbine Avenue - Here's one with pretensions, and some small attempt at decoration with the cheapest of all possible materials on its upper floors. Walking past this you seem mostly a dank, covered parking lot. Please let it collapse.
1302 King Street West - Truly Brutal, and calling attention to itself with that brick pattern is highly unfortunate.
1550 Queen Street West - Could a building be more without interest than this scabrous affair? This really stands in for any number of like structures, deadening to the street and hideous to behold.
751 Woodbine Avenue - Here's one with pretensions, and some small attempt at decoration with the cheapest of all possible materials on its upper floors. Walking past this you seem mostly a dank, covered parking lot. Please let it collapse.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I actually find the zany brickwork on 1302 King West rather interesting - I keep scrunching my eyes together to make some sort of Rorschach test thing happen. It's also got a TV interference pattern thing going for it. And it invites the viewer to guess at what points the bricklayer(s) downed trowels for the day and went home to their unfortunate families. There's a band near the bottom that suggests that at one point someone tried to introduce a different aesthetic but was overruled. Or maybe, like the ROM, they were victims of different die lots.
The rust at the top, and the wall at the front, both let it down.
The rust at the top, and the wall at the front, both let it down.
Ramako
Moderator
The only problem I have the ROCP is the curved roof element. Otherwise I don't find it particularly offensive. In fact, at some angles I think it looks good.
What I hate is all those green glass condos on the waterfront: 18 Yonge, the one accross from it, Malibu, Neptune, and even Success Tower. They all look so identically cheap.
What I hate is all those green glass condos on the waterfront: 18 Yonge, the one accross from it, Malibu, Neptune, and even Success Tower. They all look so identically cheap.
MBS
Active Member
Sheraton, Manulife, Hilton, Toronto Star (plus the buildings to the west), Jorgenson Hall, those 2 concrete residences south of the Rogers Centre, Infinity.
RoCP is not good, but it certainly isn't as bad as any of the above.
RoCP is not good, but it certainly isn't as bad as any of the above.
Ramako
Moderator
I could see why people wouldn't like the Sheraton or Manulife, but I love their slender profiles.
