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Old Posted Dec 3, 2025, 2:56 AM
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333 Queen: decent looking tower, AA is clearly drawing inspiration from David Chipperfield here; and a poor man's Chipperfield is still a step up from the usual AA glass box architecture. I'm enjoying the ongoing trend towards warmer, more tactile material palettes and rationalist forms.

That said, it's completely inappropriate for its context - a 50-storey tower mid-block on a low-rise stretch of Queen is bizarre. The buildings it's replacing are nothing special, but any redevelopment there should maintain the low-rise, fine-grained character of the street. Keep the towers to Richmond or Parliament; or at the very least to major corners on Queen. This is what the block looks like now - it'll stick out like a sore thumb: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vkMNNFhyHet1EU4b8
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