rpeters
Active Member
i challenge someone to name a single building in Toronto that has benefited architecturally from adding significant balconies. Let's see...Shangri-la? It looks good but would look better without balconies. L-tower? amazing, and it doesn't have balconies. MLS? absolute trash. Four seasons? looks great, and guess what? almost no balconies! The only ones I can possibly think of are the marilyn monroe towers and even those balconies will eventually get dirty and ugly. the balconies on aura are looking pretty bad so far as well, and it's only the top of the building that will allow it to redeem itself. Look at 33 Bay(Pinnacle) for christ's sake!
Instead of allowing a building to proclaim itself as a monument of human ingenuity and artistic beauty, balconies make a building messy, cheap, and blatantly commercial. They remind the observer of how tiny a condo actually is and how the building is essentially a filing cabinet jampacked with people. The balcony spaces are so tiny that they're likely only used for smoking and raining butts down on passers by below.
Instead of allowing a building to proclaim itself as a monument of human ingenuity and artistic beauty, balconies make a building messy, cheap, and blatantly commercial. They remind the observer of how tiny a condo actually is and how the building is essentially a filing cabinet jampacked with people. The balcony spaces are so tiny that they're likely only used for smoking and raining butts down on passers by below.
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