Cobalt Luxury Residences On King | 97.5 & 97.5m | 2 x 30 fl | Complete - Page 57

Wigs · #1 Posted **Feb 19, 2023, 10:30 PM**

Cobalt, you're looking good

good job LiUNA and everyone else involved on the project

StEC · #2 Posted **Feb 19, 2023, 1:06 AM**

Damn this is a beautiful surprise!!!

matt602 · #3 Posted **Feb 19, 2023, 1:14 AM**

Yeah that almost perfectly matches the streetwall on the opposite side of King William since they're simulating the look of several different buildings in a row. Real out of the box design for Hamilton.

Crapht · #4 Posted **Feb 19, 2023, 1:24 AM**

It’s super nice only maybe it’s just me but the middle part looks a little odd as it has no posts. I’m liking that dental work on the red brick one and the dark brick is actually a deep brown when you see it in person. This is really something to be happy with.

Beedok · #5 Posted **Feb 20, 2023, 1:08 AM**

Oh, wow. High end podium. Nice.

TheRitsman · #6 Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 2:24 AM**

I went to take look tonight, and while it definitely looks great from a distance, up close it's just an absolute mess. The "stone" is different sizes for some reason with no rhyme or pattern. The KiWi style water spouts are back wetting the brick and "stone". The stone work isn't even level in places. Odd placement of stress lines through the brick. It's fine, but honestly seems like they paid the cheapest brick contractors.

Chronamut · #7 Posted **Feb 25, 2023, 3:56 PM**

Yup the water marks on the stone are a sign of bad things to come - this building is going to erode very badly over the years. Never give another builder a job that core urban can do with better justice.

And I get it - it's why people don't do traditional styled podiums - all that stone and brick is expensive. Still, smarten up a bit, make it look presentable at least.. and.. logical. Don't put joints under stress areas or spout in area that wil ldamage the facade over time.. smh..

the spouts thing just floors me - they all just seemed to come out of nowhere one day.. isn't that what weep holes in brick are supposed to be for, so the water pours down and empties out the bottom, not disfiguring the outside? Water is never clean, it leaves stains.

TheHonestMaple · #8 Posted **Feb 25, 2023, 4:13 PM**

I want to believe a gutter will run along the top of that cornice and its just not done yet. I hope....

Chronamut · #9 Posted **Feb 25, 2023, 4:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

I want to believe a gutter will run along the top of that cornice and its just not done yet. I hope....

A gutter WOULD be logical - not the most attractive, but logical. Then again one only has to look at the kiwi building to see it lost likely is just gonna be kept like that.. a spout.. smart design seems to have left. Wherever you see wetness on the brick right now 20 years from now will be sharp eroded indentations in the stone. Or precast concrete whatever it is.. and they seem to have lined them all up with stone edges, making it even worse.. At least if you center the stone you'll mostly just erode the top edge and stain it, but it's not like their sizing has any rhyme or reason - they have parts where there are tiny fill pieces.. it's all just so.. haphazard..

Like this tiny piece.. what the hell.. did they size it wrong and be like "oops we need a tiny piece to fit in here"? Haiyaa...

TheHonestMaple · #10 Posted **Feb 25, 2023, 4:22 PM**

It's just so bizarre and blatantly poor design, surely someone somewhere in the design team would have noticed. And surely anyone inspecting the work would also see that its going to lead to a mess. I just can't imagine it being left like this.

Chronamut · #11 Posted **Feb 25, 2023, 4:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

It's just so bizarre and blatantly poor design, surely someone somewhere in the design team would have noticed. And surely anyone inspecting the work would also see that its going to lead to a mess. I just can't imagine it being left like this.

Same - at least we are equally aghast - but.. we sorta knew this was coming.. It's like someone tried to design it with no concept of traditional design based purely off visual aesthetic - there is a reason a lot was done the way it was originally - like someone said stone lintels are supposed to represent supporting a window - so why put a break in the middle - stone erodes - so why put a spout directly on top - and there is a thing called harmonious design - so why not properly size the stone and space it out appropriately? I just don't get it - they had one job, ONE JOB. Don't fuck it up! They failed.

I am not too TOO concerned about the uneven stone, at least that is a bit more reflective of how things might have ACTUALLY been built back in the day without precision cutting.

I mean it's still better than spandrel glass but god.. its just so cheap..

I think the problem is we have gotten used to the excellence of core urban, so our standards are higher - and while I sometimes feel core urban tries to play the safe side in visual aesthetic by sticking to simple stone carved shapes (probably cheaper to do, but it ain't no royal connaught cornices for example) I still feel when it comes to designing visually pleasing stuff, they know their shit.

Also for those who say craftsmanship is dead - you can LITERALLY feed a design into a 3d program and have a robotic arm carve the element into stone - or just 3d print it - that kinda stuff has never been easier technology wise. They replicated entire parts of destroyed architecture in europe doing this.

Sigh.. we need more specialists.

SteelTown · #12 Posted **Mar 2, 2023, 1:37 AM**

Joseph Mancinelli @joemancinelli

Great to be on-site today for the roof topping event at our LiUNA King William Project in Hamilton. It is the skill and perseverance of all of our workers and contractor partners that continue to build up the communities we call home. Congratulations Brothers and Sisters!

SteelTown · #13 Posted **Mar 14, 2023, 4:17 PM**

Source: https://twitter.com/urbanicityHAM

TheRitsman · #14 Posted **Mar 14, 2023, 6:07 PM**

Meant to post the picture I took the other day. The upper floors look much better with the balconies installed.

TheRitsman · #15 Posted **Mar 16, 2023, 2:11 AM**

Installing these vertical pieces and interestingly coloured balconies. Looks to be those black rectangles. They look like spandrel panels rather than brick which is what we all thought they'd be.

urban_planner · #16 Posted **Mar 18, 2023, 11:23 PM**

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ScreamingViking · #17 Posted **Mar 19, 2023, 1:40 AM**

I love seeing these when I can catch a glimpse from Cannon.

The other view I'm loving more and more is the one from the Skyway. At night the skyline looks way more impressive with the additional lights... daytime too, but especially night when it doesn't blend into the escarpment. It helps having some of Stelco's big buildings out of the way, with fewer clouds of steam coming from the industrial complex, but still.

SteelTown · #18 Posted **Mar 23, 2023, 2:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

The other view I'm loving more and more is the one from the Skyway. At night the skyline looks way more impressive with the additional lights... daytime too, but especially night when it doesn't blend into the escarpment. It helps having some of Stelco's big buildings out of the way, with fewer clouds of steam coming from the industrial complex, but still.

Whoa, is this you?

https://twitter.com/OPP_HSD/status/1638611422568390687