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Old Posted Sep 20, 2016, 5:07 PM
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That is laughable for a supposedly important office building to have a sign outside calling it the "TD Igloo"... good grief.
     
     
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Maybe it's actually twin missile silos disguised inside the building?
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 20, 2016, 6:34 PM
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That is laughable for a supposedly important office building to have a sign outside calling it the "TD Igloo"... good grief.
It's not what you think. TD Bank and Igloo Software are the main tenants.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 20, 2016, 6:40 PM
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It's not what you think. TD Bank and Igloo Software are the main tenants.
Igloo Software? OK, now it makes more sense. The green on their sign looks like it's supposed to match the TD logo... that's why I was thinking "TD Igloo".

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To quell this controversy, TD has recently moved out and the building has NetSuite and Igloo as anchor tenants, with signs on either side.
     
     
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That would be in Montreal, not Kitchener.
     
     
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I was waiting for Nippleodeon to make an appearance on this thread. She needs to do battle with Clockzilla.
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Our tackiest apartment building - not especially ugly, but very out-of-place here.

It's one of those weird holdovers from when urban development was conducted here by a Crown corporation (they also built Churchill Park just before Confederation). The Province only sold it a few decades ago when they realized they owned it and no one could explain why.







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Our tackiest apartment building - not especially ugly, but very out-of-place here.

It's one of those weird holdovers from when urban development was conducted here by a Crown corporation (they also built Churchill Park just before Confederation). The Province only sold it a few decades ago when they realized they owned it and no one could explain why.







I really wish it was somehow connected to Danny so we could have our own mini-Trump.
That mid-century style zig-zaggy awning and the porte cochere are actually kind of fun, imho. I looks like it was meant to be quite posh, back in the day.
     
     
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That mid-century style zig-zaggy awning and the porte cochere are actually kind of fun, imho. I looks like it was meant to be quite posh, back in the day.
You would need to see it in its original form to truly appreciate it; built in the late 60s, the exterior was cleaner looking white precast concrete, which was still not amazing, but better. The dark brick reclad made it look rather dowdy.
     
     
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Thanks. The dark brown brick wasn't making any sense. What's the name of the hotel?
     
     
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It's an apartment building. Or I assume condos by now, surely? Elizabeth Towers.

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Sorry. I was speculating that it was originally built as a hotel and conference centre. Was it always residential/commercial?
     
     
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I don't know - but it appears that for most of its history it was a seniors apartment complex.
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I don't know - but it appears that for most of its history it was a seniors apartment complex.
A commonality among many of the fugliest edifices seen here.
     
     
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That mid-century style zig-zaggy awning and the porte cochere are actually kind of fun, imho. I looks like it was meant to be quite posh, back in the day.
I was gonna say the same thing. That lobby though.... Woof!
     
     
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