Gotta disagree, I really like the yellow brick. I wish the brick had extended further up the tower, with the panels being used much more sparingly. If you remove the yellow brick then this building would hardly have any personality at all (insert joke about VV member of your choice here.... for example, "That's why Mike K. always carries a yellow brick with him wherever he goes.").
The top half is like a different building compared to the bottom half. The bottom half has all the makings of a pretty timeless downtown residential building. It really does call into question the CoV's processes re: design reviews & advice.
Ironically the timeless downtown residential building will be 1400 Quadra - have always been impressed with it and seeing now the narrow windows on the bottom floors, you can see it’s going to be a sharp looking building. Not to mention, no stupid panels, can we just do away with those things? Straight on viewed from Yates - YoY just looks weird, it’s really unattractive, too flat, yet wide and balconies on either side are unbalanced. It’s like you’re struggling to find something nice to hook your eyes into that makes sense and is interesting. Viewed from far away, they actually look ok on the skyline, definitely different in a sort of ugly way.