Transformation AGO (5s, Gehry) COMPLETE

[CanadianNational]

June 22, 20080

New glass added to the east end of the north facade:

The length of it:

The west end of it:

 

[marcus_a_j]

Thanks CN!

 

[khris]

This look so awesome. I love it!!

 

[Redroom Studios]

great pictures - its really looking good! I am just a bit weary of walking by there on a windy day... that piece on the east end looks sort of like a ship's sail, wonder what sort of safety factor is built in?

 

[khris]

great pictures - its really looking good! I am just a bit weary of walking by there on a windy day... that piece on the east end looks sort of like a ship's sail, wonder what sort of safety factor is built in?

I think I'd be more concerned about marble slabs falling off of Brookfield Place.

 

[smuncky]

you mean FCP?

 

[khris]

Oops yes FCP.

 

[Dan416]

Awesome pictures. Can't wait to see the final product!

 

[Towered]

That building in the background of the third pic might be the ugliest thing in Toronto. MY EYES!!!!!

 

[adma]

You're talking about that PoMo-schlock condo btw/McCaul and Simcoe?

Incidentally, that Village By The Grange sign also caught my eye--I presume it's original, and taken pretty much for granted perhaps even by the property owners. (As signage goes, I prefer the LuCliff lettering.)

 

[Towered]

You're talking about that PoMo-schlock condo btw/McCaul and Simcoe?

Yes, the one with the erection.

 

[Redroom Studios]

I actually like that faux chateau looking building... not just on its own, but how it contrasts with the University Ave office blocks behind it. I guess they could have done without the flesh coloured section though.

 

[drum118]

A view from the Streecar June 14 It wasn't a good day to shoot anything.

 

[alklay]

I actually like that faux chateau looking building... not just on its own, but how it contrasts with the University Ave office blocks behind it. I guess they could have done without the flesh coloured section though.

I too have always liked that building. On an intellectual/artistic level, yes, it is awful. But the splash of colour and form is welcomed in an area of town that has way too much bland and dreary architecture.

 

[Urban Shocker]

I think it was designed at a time when the ironic and whimsical early appeal of PoMo was still vaguely attainable to architects who were true believers - before the deadeningly dull historicist fauxmongers took over and extinguished all such possibilities.

Almost fauxPoMo, maybe?