I know that this will enrage many but I love the varying colours/treatment that we’re seeing lately! Has this trend/evolution been named yet?
I haven't seen many enraged by this proposal yet. If anything, most times someone comes out with a colorful building concept, or actually builds something colorful, most people seem to talk about how great it is that we're getting something different in this city than grey or the typical high-point of Toronto avant-garde architectural expression, black and white (I've never seen as many positive social media posts about a new building as I have for Aqualuna, which is popular for it's curves and it's warm colour). Seems like most are agreed that they're dying for more color in this city, other than the developers and architects (with very few exceptions) - Aqualuna required a foreign starchitect to actually build something that's not generic grey, black, white, and/or pale blue glass. Re naming the trend/evolultion: I look forward to the day that we build enough of these colorful buildings to actually need a name for the trend/evolution, because to this point I've seen lots of drawings, but very few built examples. These drawings, like Montgomery Sisam's other colorful design for CreateTO at 3725 Bloor West, look like the set being used to get the zoning approval, but UNFORTUNATELY I don't believe that whoever ends up negotiating the deal (to take on the project) with CreateTO will actually use this design/these architects (I really hope I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic). I find it hard to believe that grey/black/while cladding is that much cheaper than color, or that anyone thinks that it's a good idea not to use colors in a city with 6 months of winter (when we don't have the sunshine, or leafs on non-existing/artistic license trees, used make artist's renderings of our grey/black/while buildings look less depressing in condo marketing materials), so I've come to the conclusion that most of our city's developers/architect must be color blind....or if I'm being less flippant, I conclude that our historiclaly hot condo market led to developers/architects building the most generic buildngs possible, because WHEN everything was selling as long as it was cheap/non-offensive, then the last thing that they wanted to do was to take a risk by building something bold/different (with color)...maybe good business, but lousy city building
