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Originally Posted by officedweller
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It's not the same, though.
Although the language with the undulating curved balconies is similar the towers are different.
And the J +S Tower has two breaks in the middle of the tower with diagonal bracing (probably for amenity levels) that don't appear on the Midori tower..
Additionally the curved balconies happen on 3 sides of that tower while the it only happens on one face (the north side) of the Midori tower.
Jollyburger is probably right on this, in that someone probably worked on a similar design at both firms and ended up influencing look of the final built tower at Dunblane (Midori)
Context cues from the J +S Tower image (like that skytrain station location) seem to suggest that that proposal sits in the lot of what eventually became Central Park House in the Patterson area (which was worked on by Dikeakos in collaboration with Gensler).
That undulating curved balcony motif is common and prevalent enough in architecture tower design language, that it even wouldn't surprise me if the two designs (and their designers) had almost nothing to do with each other beyond just looking similar.
Although I don't think this is a particularly bad design, and it works great with Midori, I think the Central Park House was the best possible outcome for that site and that area.
It's a striking tower that's turned out really great with the offset mid-tower 3 storey amenity box.
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