Offworld said:
Can someone walk me through what is hopefully just a strong optical illusion? The underside of the refinished escalator from 2nd to ground looks like has cut off the escalator to the basement.
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This before-picture should illustrate that it's an optical illusion

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kcantor said:
As for the reclad, both inside and out, to me it screams "we have to use some of this... and some of this... and some of that... and OH! where can we add this... and what if we use some of this in between this and that...". At some point someone on the design or ownership team should have stood up and yelled "stop already!!! This isn't going to turn out well". But they didn't and it didn't.

The original curtainwall was past it's "best before date" from a performance perspective, there was at least a continuity between it and everything else. From the strange mullion locations in the new curtainwall to the lighting to the floor finishes, what's there now suffers from a lack of identiy and cohesion and won't age nearly as well as the original.
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I think you nailed it on this one, Ken. While it's usually nice to see investment in downtown properties, this project really seems to be taking the charm out of what used to be a pretty interesting building.
 
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It should function better and the common area are much improved layout-wise, but way to dumb down what was a classic building.

It reminds me of a stripmall motif from Windermere.
 
Gronk! said:
This thread was started in 2016, but the major podium renovations to the interior and exterior didn't begin until 2023. I believe the other floors were worked on during the interim.
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The overall renovation including recladding of the tower and that work started on-site in August of 2016.
 
thommyjo said:
I believe we had funding set aside for LRT entrance refreshes plus jasper ave renewal hits some of these maybe?

100% should be a priority to upgrade asap imo.
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I think we need to get rid of these random station accesses and just consolidate them all into one big street-level entrance at each station with good lighting and sightlines. Easier for cops to patrol and enforce fares, and better accessibility by having wider entrances with nearby elevators.
 
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