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Old Posted Feb 3, 2020, 2:05 AM
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Old Posted Feb 4, 2020, 6:20 PM
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I love how this thread has become 33 pages of looking at a hole lol..

sorry.. my post makes that 34 lol.
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I love how this thread has become 33 pages of looking at a hole lol..

sorry.. my post makes that 34 lol.
Well it has potential to be the best damn hole this city has seen in a long timer.
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I guess bc I work in advertising and the branding matters to me. But you're probably like most ppl.

If you say a building's name in Toronto, NYC or Chicago the cabbie would know where to go. It's just easier when a cab driver knows the city. Hamilton Cab driver's don't know Hamilton. Blue Line drivers are more fluent with building names. I think building names and brands are important. I find that you have to give the address (and probably postal code) so they can punch it into the GPS they don't know where to go. Yet I still use Hamilton Cab. Uber drivers forget about it. They are lost in one way streets. I wanted to go to Mac and they thought Bay and Main.
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Not exactly subtle...
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Old Posted Nov 19, 2019, 2:50 AM
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It's nice to see they updated it to reflect the revitalized arliss shoes building and the building design beside it

That red brick on the corner still looks very 80s though.. needs some stone lintels to make it look less stalinistic, ideally like the building across from the tivoli theatre they built recently..

..although maybe they did - it's hard to tell from the angle and the size of the picture with the trees in front... it also looks like with each render they keep redesigning the look of the commercial podium area..
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9/27/2020 by Joe, on Flickr


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9/27/2020 by Joe, on Flickr
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They should put a cornice on the red building.
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Old Posted Nov 19, 2019, 1:50 PM
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If you look closely it looks like there's a small white one on it
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Old Posted Nov 20, 2019, 7:09 AM
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If you look closely it looks like there's a small white one on it
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I think it's a trick of the lighting - I don't believe that qualifies as a cornice.

I do find it interesting how they are designing the street level podium to look worse and worse each time though.. shoulda taken a cue from the arliss shoe redevelopment. making something entirely brick is just gonna make it look soviet style or prison like - brick imo only looks nice on a commercial building when it's paired with stone.
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^Atnor did a brilliant job of trolling you, Chronamut.

I'm sure it was a test to see how long it would take you to respond to that cornice bait. You passed!
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2019, 12:41 AM
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2019, 8:17 PM
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^Atnor did a brilliant job of trolling you, Chronamut.

I'm sure it was a test to see how long it would take you to respond to that cornice bait. You passed!
What can I say, I'm a sucker for cornices lol..

also just for fun, I find its lack of cornices very underwhelming - I am not even whelmed.

Also I noticed this on their site:

"Illustration is artist's concept. Specifications subject to change without notice"

Why can't people just make a design and stick with it..
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Still another set of lovely dirt pit pictures...lol
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Still another set of lovely dirt pit pictures...lol
Yeah my office is on the back of it and progress seems pretty slow. I heard a rumour they were having problems with water (the infamous underground rivers in Hamilton) and that's slowed them down.
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To be completely fair, I think a few of us are a bit overly excited for this development!

But also there is the new hoarding which I have definitely not seen yet, so that's cool, plus many of us know where they are by dirt pictures. I'm curious if there have been slowdowns or if it's just slow because the foundations were expected to take 12 months to complete.
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These seem to be behind schedule. I saw and heard work being done Sunday evening at like 7pm I think. Saw night time working lights and noise coming from the worksite.
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