Winnipeg | 109 Mayfair | 15F | Completed

[asher__jo]

Tuxedo prices for pretty mediocre, all these builders love carpet.

[Wpg_Guy]

I hate this building so much, especially for such a prominent location.

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

I hate this building so much, especially for such a prominent location.

Yeah, it's sad that in Winnipeg we get "technically an apartment building" and that's about as good as we can do these days for larger projects. No ambition, no regard for making even the insides of the units visually pleasing, no pride.

300 Assiniboine across the river looks like mega-luxe by comparison. Blah blah blah economics etc. I get it, but it's an indictment of our economy and building code...

[neutroniks]

Yeah, totally wish we had several more buildings of similar height like 300 & 390 assiniboine line the river right up to the legislative. They're really nice to look at when skating down the river in the winter.

[bon_vivant]

Originally Posted by optimusREIM

Yeah, it's sad that in Winnipeg we get "technically an apartment building" and that's about as good as we can do these days for larger projects. No ambition, no regard for making even the insides of the units visually pleasing, no pride.

300 Assiniboine across the river looks like mega-luxe by comparison. Blah blah blah economics etc. I get it, but it's an indictment of our economy and building code...

Sadly, if the city enforced design standards nobody would build anything. We have no leverage at all.

[Brule-le]

Wasn't everyone mad this beauty of building wasn't being build next to Upper Fort Garry? ������

[neutroniks]

Originally Posted by Brule-le

Wasn't everyone mad this beauty of building wasn't being build next to Upper Fort Garry? ������

It wasn't everyone, it was the Manitoba Club Board of Directors that opposed it because they said they had " Development Plans" and that small park they made up beside it is what they came up with.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by optimusREIM

Yeah, it's sad that in Winnipeg we get "technically an apartment building" and that's about as good as we can do these days for larger projects. No ambition, no regard for making even the insides of the units visually pleasing, no pride.

300 Assiniboine across the river looks like mega-luxe by comparison. Blah blah blah economics etc. I get it, but it's an indictment of our economy and building code...

No. It's just greed. Seems it's okay to do that now with no shame at all.

[bomberjet]

Just to pile on this shit heap. The front street has 4 or 5 electrical transformer type boxes in the front yard. Thats it. And theyre crooked and ugly.

[ColdRain&Snow]

I just wish they painted the concrete walls. The bare concrete looks so bad, the building honestly looks unfinished.

[Mr Tall Forehead]

Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

I just wish they painted the concrete walls. The bare concrete looks so bad, the building honestly looks unfinished.

This is my biggest beef. Something…anything…over the bare concrete would make it look passable.

[Wpg_Guy]

The original plans showed white metal panel cladding where the concrete is now exposed. I suppose it’s possible they could finish it one day, but i agree the building looks unfinished, stuck in a perpetual state of under construction. There’s a proper way to do exposed concrete, and this isn’t it. It’s obvious the exposed concrete was an afterthought due to cost cutting measures, as the original design clearly intended metal cladding.

[bomberjet]

To my question in the DSM thread. There is exposed concrete that I believe will be left exposed. And it doesn't looks decent since it was done pre fab.

[Kris22]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

The original plans showed white metal panel cladding where the concrete is now exposed. I suppose it’s possible they could finish it one day, but i agree the building looks unfinished, stuck in a perpetual state of under construction. There’s a proper way to do exposed concrete, and this isn’t it. It’s obvious the exposed concrete was an afterthought due to cost cutting measures, as the original design clearly intended metal cladding.

Can the city not force the developer to finish it? I thought they had an obligation to stick to approved finishing materials.

[neutroniks]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

The original plans showed white metal panel cladding where the concrete is now exposed. I suppose it’s possible they could finish it one day, but i agree the building looks unfinished, stuck in a perpetual state of under construction. There’s a proper way to do exposed concrete, and this isn’t it. It’s obvious the exposed concrete was an afterthought due to cost cutting measures, as the original design clearly intended metal cladding.

You would think that with them cutting it down a few floors for the mere reason that the developer didn't have a crane that went that high, that they would be able to use the left over budget on at least beautifying the building with some kind of siding and better sleeker LED lighting.

[Sheepish]

To the exposed concrete...rather than a poor attempt at Brutalist, it is just brutal.

There was some dialogue in the threads that putting design regulations would be too onerous and discourage development. But couldn't there at least be a requirement that a building at completion must conform to the original design that was approved?

The ugly outside is matched, if not surpassed by the ugly inside.

[cllew]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Just to pile on this shit heap. The front street has 4 or 5 electrical transformer type boxes in the front yard. Thats it. And theyre crooked and ugly.

That's on Hydro and the Communications companies hiring subcontractors that don't have pride in the quality of the installations.

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by Sheepish

To the exposed concrete...rather than a poor attempt at Brutalist, it is just brutal.

There was some dialogue in the threads that putting design regulations would be too onerous and discourage development. But couldn't there at least be a requirement that a building at completion must conform to the original design that was approved?

The ugly outside is matched, if not surpassed by the ugly inside.

Any entrepreneurs in the audience? How about a business that would "decorate" bare concrete walls with long-lasting transfers of some kind? Or how about an organization that arranges a concrete wall "canvas" on which to apply murals, frescoes, etc.? No charge to the developer, but benefit for the surrounding area.

After that we could strip all the crappy corten steel off of buildings and replace it with anything?

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by cllew

That's on Hydro and the Communications companies hiring subcontractors that don't have pride in the quality of the installations.

Ya, but like the front yard is 5' wide, a mostly blank wall, filled with transformers.