Taken 14 January. I peeked into the auditorium/theatre space and it looks great and will be an amazing asset for the community. Looks to be opening very soon.
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Towered said:
Fugly. Seems we no longer know how to build attractive, inspiring schools.
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What we don't know is how to spend the money on quality architects, doing a quality job and then the attendant materials and craft during construction.

@AlexBozikovic has frequently, and correctly hammered the TDSB for Architectural fees that are just too low to pay for much beyond 'design box this big'.

Of course, more adequate fees aren't sufficient alone, if you're asking for what should be an 80M building on 40M budget.

Absent real change and more $$$ the only hope TDSB has of ever producing a good school, outside of a heritage restoration is essentially charity. By which I mean an architecture firm willing to lose money on the job in order to build
their portfolio.

Even then....on ultra-low construction budgets.........its a tough slog.
 
Being inexpensive does not need to equal being bad.

With this design the TDSB has been expensive and ugly. In 50 years time will anyone be clamoring to save the building as they did the former? I don't think so.

With the exception of the cantilever area, the design looks like they scavanged the cladding odds and ends from a warehouse fire sale and arranged them with a random number generator.

Simple masonry with rationalized glazing/windows and the marque cantilever design statement would have made for legible, if understated, design that was visually pleasing or neutral, rather than the ad hoc fever dream the TDSB decided on.

I don't necessarily fault the architects for their design, but I can't imagine this was their ultimate vision.
 
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