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Originally Posted by TheRitsman
I will continue to argue that the city doesn't matter much from far away. If phone backgrounds matter that much to you guys, you can learn to draw.
There is a certain level of demand, and if we allowed 60 storey towers, there would be half the development which would mean less parking filled in, and many more people over a single point in the city. These towers and others do after job of getting density without completely blocking all light from the surface of the earth, and get more people downtown without overriding roads and transit more than they already will.
What we need is to fill in more of the city with a mix of this density and medium density, and to infill older neighbourhoods with middling density and gentle density such as duplexes and triplexes, with parking lot plazas having density to create a meeting place, the "third place".
I will pull better quality renders from the PDF presentation I receive from clerks tomorrow.
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Well said
that being said as always I wish they would go for a bit more inspiring designs with these, but this is tucked away so whatever.
Also as for height - its my belief that a cities middle should be the highest and kinda peter away at the sides - so I'd be up for slightly taller in the core, esp say the eatons center redevelopment, but not everywhere - then it just looks like you stuck a buncha pencils in a glass and you get the views like in hong kong..
does light even PENETRATE into the street level at this point?
Personally I don't really care about how tall they are. I only care about how interesting they LOOK.
cool
awesome
amazing
inspiring
I mean seriously, our architecture is boring compared to almost everywhere else. We're stuck with precast crap with random windows and box like jutouts and picture frame elements - THAT is OUR "innovation". Pathetic.
We are also obsessed with box design - george st's one was suddenly beautiful compared to everything else because a) it's bright b) it's a BOX THAT BULGES - OMG and c) it has enough subtle elements to the tower
(not the podium - yawn) to actually make it look visually interesting from a distance - like that balcony white curve design..
Let's stop bitching about height and get back to commenting on whether the design is crappy or not lol. At least that's something we can ALL find common ground on.
This design for this proposal is very ho-hum. But as I said, it's nowhere noteworthy so whatever.
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