Claridge Icon [505 Preston St] | 143m | 45 fl | Completed - Page 97

TransitZilla · #**1921** Posted **Sep 18, 2020, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

You mean how it looked in the renders before the Claridge Classic Bait & Switch?

Yep, exactly.

OTownandDown · #**1922** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 2:26 PM**

Now seems like a good time to point out this image again:

Think they're ever going to figure out how to finish off those flat balcony panels and connect the rail to the building? Doesn't seem like any balconies are finished.

AuxTown · #**1923** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 2:47 PM**

This is poor planning. Someone somewhere must have had a plan! Or am I giving them too much credit?

OTownandDown · #**1924** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by AuxTown

This is poor planning. Someone somewhere must have had a plan! Or am I giving them too much credit?

One doesn't simply 'plan' to switch custom curving, face-mounted balcony railings with bulk-order Ali-Baba, top-mounted, quick-bolt balcony railings...

My prediction: The railing ends can't be installed because of clearance issues, plus the custom-length panels don't come with the shipping container from China, so the rails will terminate with a plus/minus 90 degree corner and go straight back to the building face, leaving the very pointiest bits of the balconies without a rail.

Tesladom · #**1925** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 4:24 PM**

Damn that's ugly!

Harley613 · #**1926** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 11:54 PM**

Does anyone know what this Icon-ish looking building is from RLA's website? It plays on their background slideshow but there is no other information. It looks a hell of a lot like the Hariri Pontarini design for Icon.

Icon by harley613, on Flickr

Urbanarchit · #**1927** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 1:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Does anyone know what this Icon-ish looking building is from RLA's website? It plays on their background slideshow but there is no other information. It looks a hell of a lot like the Hariri Pontarini design for Icon.

Icon by harley613, on Flickr

Was that not an earlier plan for Soho Italia? I recall they wanted to do the wavy balconies first and wanted an extra 5 floors for it, but the City turned them down so they went with the box design. Claridge then picked up the wavy balconies for Claridge and hired Hariri Pontarini.

All the wavy balconies allude to Studio Gang's famous Aqua Tower in Chicago that made this design popular.

Why couldn't RLA be trying this with their other buildings like by Somerset Square, 1960 Scott, Westgate? It seems they tried to do better stuff in the past but now they do bad work.

Kitchissippi · #**1928** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 3:52 AM**

Irregular wavy balconies are so 2010s

I hope we move on to something else in this decade.

Harley613 · #**1929** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 4:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

Irregular wavy balconies are so 2010s

I hope we move on to something else in this decade.

I'd be ok with irregular wavy forms if they were done properly like Aqua in Chicago and One Bloor in Toronto but it just looks pathetic when a cost cutting joke of a builder emulates the style.

OTownandDown · #**1930** Posted **Oct 13, 2020, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Does anyone know what this Icon-ish looking building is from RLA's website? It plays on their background slideshow but there is no other information. It looks a hell of a lot like the Hariri Pontarini design for Icon.

Icon by harley613, on Flickr

Remarkably similar. Maybe its a 'dig' at everyone else? The thing that sets this off for me is the thickened slab mid-left of the image. IDENTICAL to Icon's 5th..ish floor.

OCCheetos · #**1931** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 10:17 PM**

Oh god... the Claridge sign(s) light up.

Got /r/evilbuildings vibes going on tonight.

Harley613 · #**1932** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by OCCheetos

Oh god... the Claridge sign(s) light up.

Got /r/evilbuildings vibes going on tonight.

Ottawa's very own beacon of mediocrity.

AuxTown · #**1933** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 11:10 PM**

Need some pics!

Anyone have intel on the balconies? Are they just pushing ahead with the current half-ass approach?

OCCheetos · #**1934** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 11:48 PM**

For your consideration:

It's hard to get good pictures of with my phone, but here are a couple of others:

Here's the album with original resolutions: https://imgur.com/a/mhKoNiQ

Harley613 · #**1935** Posted **Oct 27, 2020, 2:20 AM**

Can you guys imagine if this building remained the new tallest in the city like PDV Tower C was for 49 years or the tallest in the NCR like TDLC Tower 1 was for 42 years? Jeez. The ball is in Trinity's court now to step it up a few notches.

RegionalRoad31 · #**1936** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 11:24 PM**

This photo I took is about two months old. I know vantage point posts for this one are a bit played out by now, but I've always enjoyed the fact that we have a farm in the middle of the city. Whereas some cities have a central park, we have a central farm. Please see attached a photo of our new tallest, and some cows.

Abe Simpson · #**1937** Posted **Oct 30, 2020, 1:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by RegionalRoad31

This photo I took is about two months old. I know vantage point posts for this one are a bit played out by now, but I've always enjoyed the fact that we have a farm in the middle of the city. Whereas some cities have a central park, we have a central farm. Please see attached a photo of our new tallest, and some cows.

I like the cows!

J.OT13 · #**1938** Posted **Oct 30, 2020, 1:12 PM**

That's a great angle. Certainly shows a bit of the quirkiness of Ottawa.

OCCheetos · #**1939** Posted **Nov 3, 2020, 2:24 AM**

Harley613 · #**1940** Posted **Nov 3, 2020, 2:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by OCCheetos

Is there a precedent for a condo developer putting their name on a building like this? In Ottawa we have actual brand names like 'Soho' and 'Nuovo' but I can't think of a case anywhere where the developer just slapped their own name on a building. It seems very odd to me.