It's like the corner space at Vancouver Centre.
Which did it "better"?
It was never busy as an exclusive Birks, nor as an intellectual bookstore (neither Bollums, nor Duthie's),
but it's always busy as a London Drugs.
The library roof is open again but unfortunately not the north level where work continues. It's been a long time since I got some good pics of the Post from there.
Seeing the photo of the model again reminds me how much more I preferred the earlier version of the glazing on the tower with the aluminum trim. The grid pattern on the tower reflected the grids of small windows on the podium in a way that I thought really brought the old and new together. While there’s no question the glass is great quality, this final version looks more like a modern tower plopped on top of an older podium, with little effort to integrate them.
It's interesting that there's a gap in the shades, apparently intentional, running vertically in front of of one of the columns on the tower addition. McMinsen's updated render (that shows the white bands) doesn't illustrate anything there, but I wonder if the intent is to have a vertical feature there; sign? art?
So it looks like they've used the glass buttresses and spider mounts for the retail entrance (greater visbility?) and used aluminum mullions everywhere else.
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