The Simpson Tower reclad is terrible. It's like they ran out of materials and fished with a different design. Reminds me of another Ottawa candidate, the Andaz Hotel. It was supposed to be a re-clad with a few additional floors to a mid-century office tower, but they ended up demolishing and starting over because converting the office building would have meant a taller towers (due to higher floor plates).
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Originally Posted by waterloowarrior
Aug 26th
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https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...-byward-market
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Originally Posted by rocketphish
I still don't like it.
Photo by me.
December 3, 2016
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Mix is quite bad. Looks like a reclad of a 50s hotel trying to replicate what was there previously.
Assomption Vie is a pretty generic office block. Not much complaint there honestly.
MUHC looks like a suburban Children's Hospital. A sprawling anti-pedestrian complex. Though in the Montreal context and its location, it's not very prominent.
Halifax Tower hotel is an egregious case of bait-and-switch but again, the location saves it from scrutiny.
Shangri-La and the former T**** tower in Vancouver are generic enough that they don't stand out too much.
The Vuze Halifax, I think I kind of like it? Maybe better than its former life as Fenwick.
That said, Edmonton's Milner Library is the hands down winner for its absolutely dismal design and prominent location IMO, followed by Icon in Ottawa, which had a promising design that was value engineered to death, making its status as tallest and ironic name quite embarrassing.