Claridge Icon [505 Preston St] | 143m | 45 fl | Completed

[McKellarDweller]

Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

There's another wavey building in Miami Beach, and they used square balcony guards.

Having the underside of the balcony slabs finished in white looks way way better/more fresh and polished for these wavy towers than the exposed concrete Icon has.

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by McKellarDweller

Having the underside of the balcony slabs finished in white looks way way better/more fresh and polished for these wavy towers than the exposed concrete Icon has.

What, you don't see beauty here?! Just not Iconic enough for you?

[OTownandDown]

Digging that natural, earthy kind of texture of the variegated concrete colours and wild mis-matched plywood formwork, and wet/leaking form ties. Very derelique.

I'm pretty sure that building in Miami is just formed and poured in white concrete with quality forming/concrete finishing/grinding of all the crap leftover after stripping the forms.

Also, those panel gaps and railing stub ends at the perimeters (especially down the right hand side balconies) is VERY chaotic.

[ponyboycurtis]

Integrating that round drip edge on the underside of the slab must have taken some work. Give 'em a break!

The patchy plywood imprints are pretty funny. As an interior finisher, a part of me would have died removing those forms and seeing that.

I do love this building coming down Carling from Bronson though, particularly from the top of the hill. I like it heading south on Preston minus that weird aqua/teal colored vertical stripe.

The south and west faces are just disappointing in what it could have been. Like bright student who never took notes or studied and passed an A level course with a D.

[OTownandDown]

Pretty sure all would have been forgiven with a face-mounted balcony railing. Which might be why these are finished in this condition (i.e. finishers/spec writer expected the slab edges to be covered, distracting from the undersides.) OR perhaps a lick of paint will go a long way.

Also, aren't leaking holes thru a new balcony probably a suspect kind of uh-oh thing?

[ponyboycurtis]

Originally Posted by OTownandDown

Pretty sure all would have been forgiven with a face-mounted balcony railing. Which might be why these are finished in this condition (i.e. finishers/spec writer expected the slab edges to be covered, distracting from the undersides.) OR perhaps a lick of paint will go a long way.

Also, aren't leaking holes thru a new balcony probably a suspect kind of uh-oh thing?

That concrete is definitely lapping up any moisture/rainfall. I wonder if some type of epoxy coating on the topside would mitigate this. Seems like there is an abundance of moisture in those slabs compared to other buildings? If so that would introduce premature spalling and balcony remediation.

Can you imagine the balcony redo on this building?

I recall the super tall/wide brown brick building at Bathgate and Montreal took like 2 or 3 years to redo their balconies. Even the low rises on Carling across from Lincoln Fields are taking an entire construction season and that's as basic as it gets.

I can see it now... in 25 years... "due to cost considerations, the balconies will be redone in a undulating rectangular shape"

[Marshsparrow]

Icon is a vertical trailer park - there I said it. Such a disappointment - it will not age well.

[YOWflier]

I said it before and I’ll say it again; the main problem here is that the individual railing glass pieces are too wide, which disrupts the curvature. Just got back from downtown T.O. and the curvy buildings there use much narrower glass railing pieces (visibly half as wide). If they had only used more, narrower pieces of glass this would look a million times better.

[Harley613]

Should have been curved glass like it's big brother from the same architect in Toronto, One Bloor.

[ponyboycurtis]

The glass fully covers the slab and then some. The railings too! one can dream.

Amazing how little development there is in the east end. I know the Danforth isn't much different.

[YOWflier]

Even in almighty TO not all curvy buildings use curved glass. A bunch I saw used straight pieces, but much narrower ones. They looked fantastic.

[905er]

Claridge Icon is simply hiddeous.. This one is a massive disappointment for me.

[J.OT13]

I wonder if Claridge knows they botched the design.

At least if you see it from Dow's Lake, or if you squint really hard, it looks decent.

[11a2b3]

Penthouse listed on MLS for 2 mill...https://a1-ws-realtor-pr.realtor.ca/real...e-unit4303-ottawa-dows-lake-little-italy









Nice views, but I wouldn't lean against those balcony railings...

[Harley613]

That concrete...jeez.... I see better finishing on the average commie block....

[rocketphish]

And there's a balcony railing post there that clearly isn't vertical. It looks bad, but is it even installed securely? Would you trust that with your weight if you leaned on it?

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by rocketphish

And there's a balcony railing post there that clearly isn't vertical. It looks bad, but is it even installed securely? Would you trust that with your weight if you leaned on it?

Icon not imagine leaning on that...

[J.OT13]

And that is so narrow. Not usable at all.

And is that Malhotra's penthouse? He can even handle living in that building?

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

And that is so narrow. Not usable at all.

And is that Malhotra's penthouse? He can even handle living in that building?

I really doubt it. He's a triple billionaire, and his penthouse is two floors if memory serves.

[OTownandDown]

Are those single Hilti Quickbolts holding each post down? Yikes.