[James Bay] Shoal Point condo | 13-storeys | Built - completed in 2005
#41
Posted 15 June 2007 - 08:23 PM
I am glad the rest of u are on board as well.
#42
Posted 15 June 2007 - 08:29 PM
IM IN UR NOOSPAPR
SLANDERIN UR ARKITEX
...Ewww... Is that him?
And he's criticizing Shoal Point for its looks? <shakes head in disbelief>
#43
Posted 15 June 2007 - 08:38 PM
#44
Posted 16 June 2007 - 01:47 PM
#46
Posted 17 June 2007 - 12:03 AM
#47
Posted 26 June 2007 - 10:29 PM
#48
Posted 29 June 2007 - 12:58 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#51
Posted 23 July 2008 - 09:04 PM
Well, take that, Trevor Boddy (according to critiques he has published, he hates Shoal Point). This building tweaks imagination, for better or for worse.
PS: I suppose that's really immature, and for purists another reason to hate this building more.
PPS: It's what the building's detractors would identify as kitsch. Gee... I like a kitsch building: that's (personally) depressing. Oh well. At least I still like Manet over Bouguereau...!
#52
Posted 24 July 2008 - 11:47 AM
#53
Posted 24 July 2008 - 03:15 PM
This building tweaks imagination, for better or for worse.
That's exactly right. Great way of putting it. Methinks that's exactly why people who don't like it don't like it.
#54
Posted 24 July 2008 - 03:37 PM
That's exactly right. Great way of putting it. Methinks that's exactly why people who don't like it don't like it.
I don't like it 'cuz it's a big hulking behemoth of a fatscraper sitting like some bloated toad on the waterfront...and the public is not able to circumnavigate the waterfront around it.
#55
Posted 24 July 2008 - 03:39 PM
(Just kidding.)
Here's a site with some interesting info and pictures re: the decorative elements on the exterior of Shoal Point.
Mermaid Balcony Brackets: Shoal Point, Victoria, B.C.
one of 9,000 precast decorative elements created by ArtForm Sculpture Studio for this project
http://www.renaissan...ShoalPoint.html
http://www.renaissan...hoalPoint2.html
http://www.renaissan...hoalPoint3.html
#56
Posted 24 July 2008 - 04:08 PM
#57
Posted 24 July 2008 - 04:12 PM
#58
Posted 24 July 2008 - 04:35 PM
So Nparker, are you saying you'd like it if it wasn't a fatscraper?
I am saying I'd like it a great deal more if it were taller, slimmer, glassier and the public had access all around the ground level-waterfront. I do however like its sculptural details. It's the overall massing and heaviness that mostly turns me off.
#59
Posted 24 July 2008 - 06:27 PM
*Actually, I guess it was built in three phases, right? From west to middle to east.
#60
Posted 24 July 2008 - 06:46 PM
*http://www.phrases.o...ssages/286.html
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