Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it! (We have a new front page story with everything here.)

My take on the brutalist look: both the podiums and the towers are now clad as if they were carved out of a sedimentary rock cliff face. Canadian Tire logo shapes appear as windows at a couple corners, while the logo has also been incised into the masonry in places, all suggestive of Canadian Tire's place in Canadian life as being bedrock or foundational in nature. I don't think that's far off the mark. As a fan of brutalism, at least when it's done well, I am hoping for careful attention to details here, would love to see it board-formed concrete, who knows, maybe some of that could be actual stone... but I'm concerned that if the materials are not treated well, this could be a big miss.

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70Challenger said:
They really need to specify what the material is, because now even concrete is a luxury to be VE'd. Unless it's precast, but precasting board-formed concrete is a new level of postmodernist irony.
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We have to wait for the SPA submission near the end of the month for that info!

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We all know the poor quality of Canadian Tire goods, so I don't think it's reasonable to expect good materials and design from their REIT.
 
Undead said:
We all know the poor quality of Canadian Tire goods, so I don't think it's reasonable to expect good materials and design from their REIT.
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You dont even have to look that far, just look at the shambolic mess stores that they have.

I'm impressed that Canadian Tire (not including their other brands) has been in business for this long, considering the mess that they consider "stores".
 
This is going to be extraordinarily bad. The fact that Adamson let these renders out the door and believed they represent the project in a positive light says it all.
 
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