I have no sympathy for a builder who's putting up a premium building at a premium price and decides 'nightmarishly' expensive balcony railings are too expensive, which are arguably the make-or-break material for this building. Custom cladding elements are for sale around the world. It's not that difficult.
My 2 second google search shows $738/sq.ft. average price for this building. Maybe someone else has knowledge, but I thought it would be somewhere around $350-500/sq.ft. to build. Am I right? Shouldn't balcony railings be the least of anyone's concern, cost-wise?
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Originally Posted by Sauvanto
k so why does everyone hate this building lol? I just keep seeing some "gross, bad, poorly executed, etc." what are the actual things that are not liked though?
- I think the overall shape is really nice, upwards curves gives a nice flow to a quite narrow building
- Nice balconies giving multiple condos different balcony layouts
- Although the glass panes aren't curved, it would be nightmarishly expensive to have different custom panes for almost every floor because of all the curvature. Condos are already overly expensive, I'm okay with minimizing costs there
- I like the color scheme, light-blue/green-ish is always a color I liked for windows in North America as it blends well with the snow, clouds and next to the water
- I much prefer glass panes for the balconies over perforated metal, I've yet to see metal railings in Canada survive more than 5 years before showing long rust streaks dripping down the side and rust eating from the lower salt-covered edges inwards
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