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Originally Posted by softee
There's a tall proposal for the Southeast corner of Church and Dundas. There are a couple of good restaurants in those crummy old buildings, I'll be kinda sad to see them go.
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Canada still hasn't figured out how to recreate an equivalent pedestrian/retail experience on the ground level of new high rises. I'm not convinced that it's impossible especially given the many fantastic first 4-5 floors one sees in many new developments elsewhere.
It requires developers hire people that specialize in retail facades and that adequate money is allocated into creating something beautiful. Texture, material choices, colour, etc? The current mentality seems to be to just throw up some big panes of glass and assume that they've done their job. It doesn't work but they still keep doing it. Not everything needs to look like a Louis Vuitton store to look good either.
There's absolutely no reason why we can't have something like this below at the bottom of a 50 floor condo building. It would take some tweaking (higher floor height, door at pavement level, etc) but it's doable and likely the same price as a big sheet of glass. The possibilities are endless. I could post 100 different images; none similar.
Courtesy of ak0
One can do alot with brick too
Courtesy of retaildesignblog
One could even break the grey colour up for visual interest: 2 stores grey, 2 stores navy, 2 stores hunter green
Courtesy of dezeen
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