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Same glass colour exteriors, materials & building envelope as every other high rise in the city. It’s all the same colour scheme. Its ridiculous. It’s beyond budget. It’s just lax, neglectful, thoughtlessness of Toronto as a city & its skyline. And local developers & architects need to be called out by city gov’t. I do like the shape, height & even design of this building, but it’s missing colour & vibrancy to stand out. Amber or Gold windows?? Anything other than god awful blue-grey monotony of the daylight skyline.
 
Skyhighzz said:
Same glass colour exteriors, materials & building envelope as every other high rise in the city. It’s all the same colour scheme. Its ridiculous. It’s beyond budget. It’s just lax, neglectful, thoughtlessness of Toronto as a city & its skyline. And local developers & architects need to be called out by city gov’t. I do like the shape, height & even design of this building, but it’s missing colour & vibrancy to stand out. Amber or Gold windows?? Anything other than god awful blue-grey monotony of the daylight skyline.
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I would normally agree with you however I don't think that the white would be as pronounced on the other colors I kind of look at it like a wave capping off on the ocean when I look it the way the white comes off the blue
 
...a lot of this is the result of the glass catching the sky. That is, blue on clear days, grey on overcast days...and all points in between. Unless one can find away to change the sky's current colour scheme (probably not advisable), this is what it going to be mainly be reflected in the windows here.
 
Skyhighzz said:
Same glass colour exteriors, materials & building envelope as every other high rise in the city. It’s all the same colour scheme. Its ridiculous. It’s beyond budget. It’s just lax, neglectful, thoughtlessness of Toronto as a city & it’s skyline. And local developers & architects need to be called out by city gov’t. I do like the shape, height & even design of this building, but it’s missing colour & vibrancy to stand out. Amber or Gold windows?? Anything other than god awful blue-grey monotony of the daylight skyline.
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You have The One. I think for the first time, one - golden and another - blue is alright
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
...a lot of this is the result of the glass catching the sky. That is, blue on clear days, grey on overcast days...and all points in between. Unless one can find away to change the sky's current colour scheme (probably not advisable), this is what it going to be mainly be reflected in the windows here.
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Yeah, esp. here. Overwhelmingly blue-grey. Not in other cities. In UK this summer, newer high rise windows with amber & yellow tints were evident there. Looks so much better w sun & on greyer days. So, it’s a real thing!! My initial point was same materials always used & same glass towers were just an example. But, even a blue, grey & add a golden hue on The Pinnacle would make it a more standout attractive building.
 
Skyhighzz said:
Yeah, esp. here. Overwhelmingly blue-grey. Not in other cities. In UK this summer, newer high rise windows with amber & yellow tints were evident there. Looks so much better w sun & on greyer days. So, it’s a real thing!! My initial point was same materials always used & same glass towers were just an example. But, even a blue, grey & add a golden hue on The Pinnacle would make it a more standout attractive building.
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While I am not speaking for the other towers with lesser qualities surrounding it, I do feel this tower is striking enough regarding its widow dynamics without adding and/or changing anything else to it currently. I do agree though that there are lots of other buildings that can't say that.
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
While I am not speaking for the other towers with lesser qualities surrounding it, I do feel this tower is striking enough regarding its widow dynamics without adding and/or changing anything else to it currently. I do agree though that there are lots of other buildings that can't say that.
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I don’t know. Shades of the gold or amber climbing up this building tall tower would make it stand out more. Not the same.
 
In Toronto, there’s that one gorgeous red building & a sea of uniformity-colouring-wise. Like a “Sim replicant of towers” as someone put it.
T.O. is not blessed with beautiful neo classical arch. that adds to a more interesting & classically beautiful skyline. It’s a nice skyline but IMO, it needs to jazz up many of its postmodern structures w some vibrancy~Golds, ambers, coppers etc.. So much blue going on here. Pinnacle is a cool tower, it just needs some more pizzazz..
 
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