Canadian City Proposals - Page 340

WhipperSnapper · #**6781** Posted **Oct 14, 2016, 11:23 PM**

Former RBC head office on King completed in 1964.

A little dirtier still but a consistent dirty look 110 Yonge completed in 1968

Consider the look of the TD Centre before the recent paint job, Commerce Court West's stainless steel, even Scotia's red granite.

TorontoDrew · #**6782** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 12:05 AM**

Here's kind of a ridiculous proposal for 254 King Street East. I hope it gets shot down.

posted on urbantoronto.ca

koops65 · #**6783** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 12:44 AM**

Not ridiculous at all... that's excellent.

WhipperSnapper · #**6784** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 12:58 AM**

Not a fan of the design and, neighbourhood context, it's even worse. It's just too big.

Ramako · #**6785** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 1:56 AM**

Contexts change. We would haven't our financial core if they didn't. Bring it on.

WhipperSnapper · #**6786** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 4:11 AM**

Context do change over time... lots of time; not every 5 to 10 years. The Kings are among the few boom intensification areas that has developed a cohesive, urban form and this inelegant pile does the last 15 years and a dozen or so developments later a disservice to what they have accomplished.

The core is admirable (although inhospitable). At the same time, it could have been so much better if the developers/planners of the time were more sensitive to the existing fabric.

MonkeyRonin · #**6787** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 6:37 AM**

That's almost laughably bad. Office park-worthy architecture, underwhelming site design, overbearing scale - and the place looks like it wouldn't be too livable either (just imagine being in one of those interior units beneath the bridges!). The only halfway redeeming quality are the tiered setbacks on the King St. frontage.

MonkeyRonin · #**6788** Posted **Oct 17, 2016, 6:51 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Context do change over time... lots of time; not every 5 to 10 years. The Kings are among the few boom intensification areas that has developed a cohesive, urban form and this inelegant pile does the last 15 years and a dozen or so developments later a disservice to what they have accomplished.

The core is admirable (although inhospitable). At the same time, it could have been so much better if the developers/planners of the time were more sensitive to the existing fabric.

Good point. The CBD is great, but it'd be even better if it still had the old Star and BMO towers instead of the block spanning 2-storey FCP podium, for example.

But in any case, King East isn't the CBD, and a building of this insensitive scale doesn't fit in with the fine-grained context of any other new development in the area. Not that as lazy a building as that belongs anywhere, mind you.

itom 987 · #**6789** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 1:30 AM**

We now have some images of the proposed Alldritt Tower for Edmonton!

This is the base of the tower, keep in mind that those buildings behind the tower do not exist.

Alldritttower2
by Thomas Huizinga, on Flickr

This is what the tower might look like in the skyline.

Alldritttower
by Thomas Huizinga, on Flickr

alldritttower5 by Thomas Huizinga, on Flickr

alldritttower4 by Thomas Huizinga, on Flickr

alldritttower3 by Thomas Huizinga, on Flickr

rapid_business · #**6790** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 2:25 PM**

Add this to the pie-in-the-sky pile. Used for fanning the ego of said 'developer' and attempting to gain a rezoning which over-values his land. Will never happen.

Daveography · #**6791** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 2:31 PM**

^ I give it the slight edge over The Edmontonian if only because they hired a better architect and are further in the process than it ever went (Alldritt is actually up at EDC today). Not much more than an edge, but an edge nonetheless.

Biff · #**6792** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 2:46 PM**

I like the height but, why so many layers. It really looks busy and not very refined. I do like the base 18 storeys though.

WhipperSnapper · #**6793** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 2:51 PM**

You mean an actual architect came up with this?!?

Coldrsx · #**6794** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 6:39 PM**

^the photoshop is comical, but there are some other images that have good elements.

Urbmtl · #**6795** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 7:15 PM**

I was looking for a project planned in Montreal and I found those.
Does anyone know their status? I'm curious.

Forgive me if they have already been discussed.

Quote:

http://hpaurban.com/

X TOWER
EDMONTON, ALBERTA

60 Stories
400 Residential Units
800 SF Unit Average
80 Hotel Keys

Quote:

http://humphreys.ca/projects/

FAIRMONT TOWER
EDMONTON, ALBERTA

308 apartment units
187 hotel units
72 penthouse units
5 town-home units

Quote:

EDMONTON OFFICE TOWER
EDMONTON, ALBERTA

34 Storey
160 units
1,2 Bedrooms
7,437 sf of retail space

[IMG]http://humphreys.ca/wp-content/uploads/b...itecture-Edmonton-Office-Tower-Rendering

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enrigue8 · #**6796** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 7:22 PM**

Wow these proposals are awesome .
I hope they will get built.

Kevin_foster · #**6797** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 7:27 PM**

That helicopter landing pad is just hilarious

Beedok · #**6798** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 9:23 PM**

I like the idea of that new Edmonton proposal, but think the renders are pretty terribly done.

Wooster · #**6799** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 9:31 PM**

Edmonton leads the nation per capita in harebrained, fantastical tall building "proposals"

ue · #**6800** Posted **Oct 18, 2016, 9:39 PM**

Can we just not on all of those... completely out of scale with surroundings. Density does not have to be a free for all to build the tallest. It seems like this city is getting a little trigger happy with the YXD closure of 2013.