[ndawgg]

From today:

 

[flonicky]

 

[Rascacielo]

This building doesn't really have a podium. Other than a few step-backs, it's essentially an extremely tall slab with a slanted top. I'm nervous about its impact on the skyline - it's going to look muscular for sure.

 

[OpenClosed]

This might be harsh but.. this building is an affront and a disgrace to the eyes, such an ugly building for that part of the skyline. I had said previously that it’ll have a similar “chunkiness but endearing” factor as the Rockefeller centre did but I take it back after looking at more renderings and future depictions of the skyline, this thing is gonna just look out of place and lord knows Concord is gonna ruin this chonker even more with the cladding..

 

[officedweller]

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Uh-oh.
They need the Ryerson Building to make theirs look interesting on the poster.

 

[Contra]

Uh-oh.
They need the Ryerson Building to make theirs look interesting on the poster.

Does Snøhetta get a cut on this one?

 

[steveve]

Today

 

[Strange Advance]

This might be harsh but.. this building is an affront and a disgrace to the eyes, such an ugly building for that part of the skyline. I had said previously that it’ll have a similar “chunkiness but endearing” factor as the Rockefeller centre did but I take it back after looking at more renderings and future depictions of the skyline, this thing is gonna just look out of place and lord knows Concord is gonna ruin this chonker even more with the cladding..

Rockefeller is a 1930s objet d'art compared to this, which, judging by the "official" rendering, is a monstrously wide, 300m tall piece of broken glass (Architects, please retire the "shards of glass" aesthetic!). I don't think it will be endearing. That's why I expressed a fondness for the render, still seen above - but alleged by someone here more knowledgeable than me to have been an apocryphal one - with the white accents all over the building. They would have given the exterior much-needed texture and differentiation. Hopefully it doesn't end up completely ghastly, because at it's size, it will be impossible to ignore.

 

[ethan.l.cecc]

From Kerr Hall Quad, still hiding behind the trees, but will soon start to have a big impact on the west views here...

 

[GenerationLee]

This is like building a 2nd Aura...the same impact on the neighbourhood and visually, but, somehow this will be worse than Aura.

 

[Rascacielo]

This is like building a 2nd Aura...the same impact on the neighbourhood and visually, but, somehow this will be worse than Aura.

It's wider and taller than Aura, so its impact will be even more pronounced. I'm sure in less than 3 years after completion it will resemble Aura in terms of the broken lighting.

 

[Koops65]

 

[Civdis]

I said it before and I will say it again, if we are getting true curtain wall on this building, it could turn out "ok". I am reserving judgement until the cladding starts.

 

[OpenClosed]

Whose bright idea was it to put those towers (Chelsea green) of the practically the same height directly next to Concord sky?

(Unless they were proposed before concord sky)

 

[daptive]

No worries, didn't you hear that The Zanzibar is planning on building an 8-storey addition?

(Photoshop wizards, do your thing.)

That's gonna be one loooooooong pole