This is another round of "would the marginal cost of having made it less horrific sunk the project?". I'm inclined to think the answer is no. Surely it wouldn't be that expensive to put an ivy trellis on giant blank side of the parkade levels, or round up some Fine Arts students from U of M and hire them to paint a mural.
That big bleak wall will be the first thing anyone getting off at Osborne Station will see; the very cohort who might be considering living in those apartments.
what the actual fuck???? ... this literally pisses me right off.. what child drew this shit?
More like which architecture intern was told to visualize the design of "Plain, bland, light grey tower with no visual features of note, plus 5 randomly scattered parkade windows on an empty white wall, on the most prominent TOD corner of the city"
They must have spiraled into a depression and rushed that job as fast as possible to remove it from their memory.
Might be ok if this were another Remand centre? BTW..
Even the Remand centre downtown is brighter and cheerier looking than this.
What a horrendous look for us to be punished by not to mention when tourists come and laugh.
I think this is worse than The Radisson.
Well, Winnipeg artists, time to get thinking. Ya'll about to have a monster canvas to work with in a short period of time.
I could imagine worse (thought it would take some mental acuity). At least it's got some heft to hit. Might as well get it done, especially so if as optimusREIM said, the alternative is a hole.
the white parts will be IMPs, and the grey parts are going to be precast concrete.
this thing looks like a piece of shit on paper and will look worse when built
(also, it's great to see that the renderings on the initial building show some sort of screen on the balcony spaces, which they still half a decade later haven't installed...)
That just shouldn’t be allowed on a prominent area or intersection period , I don’t know how some of this stuff gets approved with no concern for architectural design at all . I am sure Russia has nicer commie block designs than this !
Absolutely horrendous. And at one of the most prominent intersections in the city. Who would've thought the white building would end up being the better part of this development.
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Who would've thought the white building would end up being the better part of this development.
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