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Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy
I've been wondering this for quite some time. What is it with the obsession that Toronto has with balconies? I feel they make a building seem temporary looking. not sure why. Just makes them seem almost cheap.
I don't see this going in in Chicago or New York...but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Just seems Toronto has more than its fair share.
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I agree. Balconies are the worse imo when they're wrapped around a box. It leads to an uninteresting and boring design that makes it worse when people dump they're garbage on them. They can look like slums imo.
Probably the worst wrap around condo built recently (
recently is what makes it terrible), i think it was built in 2008/07 is pulse condos @ Yonge/Finch. Cheap green glass, terrible podium, awkward positioning against YONGE street, short stubby height,
TWIN towers, etc... doesn't get quite worse than this.
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http://livehigh.com/uploads/condos/s...on-Group-1.JPG
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Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline
I've always thought Casa looks rather bland & fat(I know its not really a wide tower, it just appears as such).
I'm actually more hopefully for the 2nd & 3rd ones. At least they'll really soar with their thinner portions and greater height so as to distract me from the blandness of its windowall facade.
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It looks slim from a distance (like from the CN tower), but I know what you mean, from it's east/west sides (like Charles St), it can appear bulky up close.
Casa II/III look like improved versions of Casa I, almost like it evolved on the design board, it just so happens the first iteration ended up being built, and they're building 2 design progressions afterwards. Real-life scale model studies I guess lol.