This is
embarrassingly bad in concept and I bet will be
agonizingly bad in execution. A site with great potential, completely squandered by utterly dreadful architecture — absolutely shameful, no way around it.
I measured some of the balconies. Not only are the triangle balconies useless, a lot of the others are hardly any better:
I will, for posterity's sake if for no other reason, bring forward these elevation and two more renders of the "heritage retention" component:
North Elevation
South Elevation
East Elevation
West Elevation
Heritage Retention Elevation
Heritage Retention Rendering
Finally, bringing forward a table from the planning response document. A proposal that has been with the City for exactly two years and one day (during a housing crisis) that has seen the density cut and cut and cut, the overall units cut, and the unit breakdown skew increasingly towards smaller units:
I do believe in credit where credit is due, though, and on this project it's due in two places:
- the number of parking stalls decreased from 234 to 139 (excellent!); and
- the commercial space proposed is a bright spot with five separate spaces that are sized well.