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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 1:07 AM
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That and a complete gut and re-build of the interior. I'm a little disappointed with the result.
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Not really sure where to post this, I was driving dish King Edward and on the other side of the road was a plow pushing snow into the middle of the street. About 30 cars behind it, there was another plow pushing the snow back to where it was originally. Can I say WTF?
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Not really sure where to post this, I was driving dish King Edward and on the other side of the road was a plow pushing snow into the middle of the street. About 30 cars behind it, there was another plow pushing the snow back to where it was originally. Can I say WTF?
Preparing for snow removal.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 3:16 AM
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That and a complete gut and re-build of the interior. I'm a little disappointed with the result.
It looks completely wrong. The juxtaposition does not work at all.
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It looks completely wrong. The juxtaposition does not work at all.
Agreed, they glass cladding ruined the quite decent modernist façade, in my opinion. What was their reason for that change?
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 3:25 PM
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Not really sure where to post this, I was driving dish King Edward and on the other side of the road was a plow pushing snow into the middle of the street. About 30 cars behind it, there was another plow pushing the snow back to where it was originally. Can I say WTF?
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Preparing for snow removal.
Ya, they did a mass snowbank removal in Sandy Hill yesterday, it went on all night I think, woke me up at 3 in the morning.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 3:37 PM
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Agreed, they glass cladding ruined the quite decent modernist façade, in my opinion. What was their reason for that change?
Cheap modernization effort as opposed to complete redevelopment as previously planned.
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Cheap modernization effort as opposed to complete redevelopment as previously planned.
Yup...definitely seems that way Based on the Rendering, it looks like they are almost done with the exterior:


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Incredibly weird hodge-podge of architectural styles...Looks awful! It gives the impression that they didn't have enough money to finish the rest of the renos.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 1:14 AM
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Ya, pretty bad. They should have redone the first 2 floors and left the rest of the exterior as is.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 4:32 AM
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Looks like garbage. They are doing a similar reclamation the building where I work (267 O'connor) and it looks like 90's crap. The brick may have been a little worn but I prefer the look compared to that silver crap.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 4:36 AM
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Looks like they ran out of building materials, then went back and changed the renderings to match the dog's breakfast that they ended up with.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 4:49 AM
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Looks like garbage. They are doing a similar reclamation the building where I work (267 O'connor) and it looks like 90's crap. The brick may have been a little worn but I prefer the look compared to that silver crap.
Isn't that the Doctors Building that's planned to be demolished for the Landmark SOHO Buildings?
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 5:07 AM
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Yup...definitely seems that way Based on the Rendering, it looks like they are almost done with the exterior:

Incredibly weird hodge-podge of architectural styles...Looks awful! It gives the impression that they didn't have enough money to finish the rest of the renos.
If it looked like the rendering, it might be passable. But it doesn't; the original parts aren't as nice as the rendering would have it.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 5:11 AM
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Isn't that the Doctors Building that's planned to be demolished for the Landmark SOHO Buildings?
Yes, it sure is. My dentist is in that building and he just notified his patients that he'll be moving to Lansdowne Park at the end of the year.
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wow...just wow... this semi-reclad is going straight into the 'ugly ottawa' thread when it's done.
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Wow, I was actually pleased when I saw the renovations on this building, only because I thought they were doing the whole building! Now that I see they did 1/5th of it (little bit here, little bit there), it looks like complete garbage.

I dind't like the old building but I would have rather kept it as is.. at least it would've been uniform.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 3:52 PM
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Building looks horible, worse than the picture, what a waste of money.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 4:12 PM
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The building looks like a sample board of cladding. Reminds me of when Volkswagen actually produced this version of the Golf:

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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 4:21 PM
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The building looks like a sample board of cladding. Reminds me of when Volkswagen actually produced this version of the Golf:

Oooooh! I loved this! There was someone with an older car with a similar colour pattern that used to drive around West Wellington over 10 years ago.

But yeah... if they had only redone the first floor as per what's in the rendering that might have been fine, but what they did is ruin a decent building.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2015, 4:32 PM
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Never speak ill of the Duplo Golf!
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