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Originally Posted by s211
"Architect and manager won't miss the distinctive gold."
So what did the Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto do right that Scotia Place did wrong?
So lazy to convert to silvery glass. Scotia might as well wear an invisibility cloak because it could end up being so non-descript afterward that nobody will notice it's still there. The gold glass was the only thing that set Scotia apart.
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it's not quite as simple as "what did they do right in toronto that wasn't done here".
firstly, toronto doesn't have the temperature swings that edmonton does nor does it have the same extremes from one side to the other that is very hard on curtainwall components and particularly on sealed glazing units.
secondly, the typical amount of "attic stock" taken in to inventory as part of the initial construction in order to replace failed or broken units will last a lot longer in toronto than in edmonton. once that stock has been depleted, replacement units need to be reordered and the subsequent lots are pretty much guaranteed not to be an identical match as the glass, the tints and the gases will never be exactly the same as the originals, never mind matching how the originals will have aged. gold glazing is one of the most susceptible to those variations being discernable.
lastly, gold tinted glass actually uses gold and while chosen primarily for how expensive it looks, it is expensive in fact and how expensive can vary a lot depending on the price of gold at the time. there are some manufacturers that no longer produce gold tinted glass because of the size of the investment it requires in their own inventory combined with the added security costs of managing that inventory.
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