Once the weather hits the overnight zeroes, that patch of concrete and steps is going to be an absolutely shitshow.
Quick, someone set up a webcam livestream from across the street to start counting up the hits and views.
You need to see the stairs in person to fully appreciate how bad of a job they've done with the stairs. They could have made the vertical height of each step uniform and then they wouldn't have as bad of a curved lip at the top step/sidewalk.
I could be wrong (I can't see if these stairs or for exiting the building) but I believe these step are at an exiting area from the building, the step risers should be at a standard height 7" or people would be tripping and falling trying to escape the burning building.
Before they installed the planters then it's sort of understandable why they had these weird heights. But if they ripped out the steps and started again then they would get rid of that horrible cross slope and it would probably end up more level with the sidewalk. Right now except for the bottom step I believe they are all probably on the low end 5-6 inches?
Westbank also said that the building will have an explicitly performative aspect.
"Every evening, the building will put on a 'performance'," it said.
"As a prelude to the performance, shortly before 9 pm, the building lights will dim and the blinds lower. At 9 pm, the building will slowly illuminate, taking on a lantern-like effect."
"The bulk of the building is held by a central elevator core and six 'mega-columns' that penetrate through all floors," said OSO.
"There are no other columns in the centre of the floorplate, only trusses along the facade that transfer perimeter loads from one cantilevering volume to another."
Inside, the floorplans were left largely open due to the lack of columns in the floorplates, allowing for flexible working spaces for the occupants. The ground floor lobby holds a wood-and-plant-filled cafe.
OSO was founded by Michael Sypkens and Esteban Ochogavia – two former employees of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma – in 2017.
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