Canadian City Proposals

[GlassCity]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

749 King Street W, Kitchener

Who knew the LRT tracks were also meant to be a major pedestrian thoroughfare!?

[Innsertnamehere]

Young Condos (City Centre 2), Kitchener

[dleung]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Originally Posted by giallo

^ We'll see. Apparently, there was a very vocal minority at the meeting that got the city's attention, so it's important that people write to the council, and show their support for this tower.

The worst thing you can put across the street from a form like Vancouver House is a cheap gimmicky version of it that has similar curves wallpapered over an almost-vertical extrusion. Even the balconies don't follow the wavy pattern! Quite confident the UDP will reject it, even in its current low-standards/retarded state.

Also, the renders look pumped out of an offshore render farm that plopped the project on a tower-less version of the downtown peninsula from 80 years ago.

[MonkeyRonin]

400 Front St. West







1151 Queen St. East





1365 Yonge St.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

400 Front St. West

That's nice. Would look right at home in NYC.

[Biff]

^^^ I like the overall massing of the project but, maybe it is just the rendering that it reminds me of bent fins (damaged) on a radiator. I'm not sure that is a look you should be going for.....and very random placing at that.

[WhipperSnapper]

The details are where this adaptation of someone else's style falls flat.. This is just flashy rendering too. It could get even worse than that.

[GeneralLea]

The massing is strange.....not sure how this thing would look as an architectural piece. It really doesn't fit that well in the space it's trying to occupy IMO. I see this being redesigned later on.

[Black Star]

Yeah....Not sure what I think about this. More renderings needed me thinks.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Needs a new architect rather than more renderings

[Urban recluse]

Good starting point IMO.

[milomilo]

Originally Posted by GlassCity

Who knew the LRT tracks were also meant to be a major pedestrian thoroughfare!?

Well the train is unpowered, so poses no threat! Either that or Kitchener is getting battery powered trains.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by milomilo

Well the train is unpowered, so poses no threat! Either that or Kitchener is getting battery powered trains.

When you see how brutally ugly the catenary wires are through that part of town, it's not hard to see why they'd be omitted from a render.

[Ontario1]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

When you see how brutally ugly the catenary wires are through that part of town, it's not hard to see why they'd be omitted from a render.

I'm looking at them right now on that section of King Street and they are actually not that noticeable. The Hydro lines on the side streets are worse.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by Ontario1

I'm looking at them right now on that section of King Street and they are actually not that noticeable. The Hydro lines on the side streets are worse.

The first time I drove up King after the underpass had opened, I had to pull off at Union as my vision was starting to blur. I am serious - to me it was so ugly that it made me tear up. And I'm an LRT supporter. To be fair, it wasn't just the catenary system, it was the forest of catenary posts, hydro poles, traffic lights, street signs. I found it overwhelming, especially in the KCI to GRH stretch. We know that Kitchener doesn't do a lot of pretty, but man oh man!

[Ontario1]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

The first time I drove up King after the underpass had opened, I had to pull off at Union as my vision was starting to blur. I am serious - to me it was so ugly that it made me tear up. And I'm an LRT supporter. To be fair, it wasn't just the catenary system, it was the forest of catenary posts, hydro poles, traffic lights, street signs. I found it overwhelming, especially in the KCI to GRH stretch. We know that Kitchener doesn't do a lot of pretty, but man oh man!

I just watched an LRT that is testing go up that stretch. The hydro poles in front of CTV/GRH and that stretch of King Street are the real eyesore. They have been there for over 60 years. There are about 6 or 7 sets of wire strung on each pole. The catenary and poles for the LRT are fairly clean looking overall. https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4571817,-...dPkAYXUdTFYy83An_MAnQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

The first time I drove up King after the underpass had opened, I had to pull off at Union as my vision was starting to blur. I am serious - to me it was so ugly that it made me tear up. And I'm an LRT supporter. To be fair, it wasn't just the catenary system, it was the forest of catenary posts, hydro poles, traffic lights, street signs. I found it overwhelming, especially in the KCI to GRH stretch. We know that Kitchener doesn't do a lot of pretty, but man oh man!

Lol

Have any of you ever been to Toronto? It's fine.

[Ontario1]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Lol

Have any of you ever been to Toronto? It's fine.

It sure is.

[SteelTown]

New project unveiled today in Hamilton during a neighbourhood association meeting. It's in the Corktown neighbourhood, right next to St Joseph's hospital.

Originally Posted by davidcappi

Apologies for the quality! The church was quite dim.

Corey Helie-Masters
https://twitter.com/CoreyHMasters

Originally Posted by davidcappi

Quick facts re: this development

Architect is Core Architects
Landscape by Janet Rosenberg and Studio

[GeneralLea]

Holy crow! That complex is massive. Looks alright seeing as it's going to be quite unique in the area it's built in, glad to see this proposal