I never said Victoria was ruined. I simply stated that HP-2 is not an attractive building. I remain hopeful that future development in the area will help to mitigate this. Worst case scenario of course is that HP-2 sets the new standard for high-rises.
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#281
Posted 11 May 2022 - 09:45 AM
#283
Posted 11 May 2022 - 01:10 PM
The podium is decent, but the tower is looking about as blandly conventional as a contemporary residential highrise can be. If you check out discussions in other cities you'll see people are confounded by this trend pretty much everywhere. Nobody wants plain & repetitive blandness, and yet it's happening like crazy.
But the thing about Victoria is, architectural design issues related to highrise buildings have literally been front page news for decades (Mike K. is probably too young to be aware of this fact). Over and over again we were told the same message: the generic, repetitive, and inelegant stuff that was going up everywhere else simply did not belong in Victoria. The alarmists even claimed the generic stuff that was going up everywhere else had the potential to damage Victoria. And yet now we've got this towering 180-degree about-face for all to see.
Victoria can be such a goofball place. Architectural design buffs can take visitors on a tour of downtown and boast about how Victoria goes to great extremes to preserve & emphasize the city's unique look and feel, but they can also point out Orchard House, View Towers, or HP2 whenever they require an illustration of the mistakes that other cities make.
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#284
Posted 11 May 2022 - 01:12 PM
Anyway, it's not a horror show. At least it's not a widescraper.
#286
Posted 11 May 2022 - 04:49 PM
I won't be surprised if that one also ends up getting filed under "great podium, too bad about the drab upper levels".
HP2 is frustrating because we saw the original concept so we know this same basic design could have been much sharper if only it had a bit more glazing, a bit less blah, and a decent resolution at the top.
Edited by aastra, 11 May 2022 - 04:49 PM.
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#287
Posted Yesterday, 05:29 AM
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#288
Posted Yesterday, 05:44 AM
Know it all.
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#289
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#290
Posted Yesterday, 07:13 AM
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#291
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#292
Posted Yesterday, 07:21 AM
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#293
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#294
Posted Yesterday, 07:35 AM
The rest of them are garbage.
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