What do you think? Does it look like the rendering?

http://www.context.ca/pages/radiocity/main_images/radiocity_main_r2_c2.jpg

http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_6.jpg
http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_7.jpg

View from the Penthouse
http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_8.jpg

http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_9.jpg

Sept Update
http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_11.jpg
http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_10.jpg

This looks pretty neat.

I like this view:
http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_9.jpg

^ Heck, I was thinking the same

Wow, the view is marvellous...so you've been on the premises
...great photos Skybean

This is one of the few examples where the end product is turning out better than the renderings. Excellent project.

What the hell are all those things flying around in the sky?
http://www.context.ca/pages/images_large/radiocity/construction/construction_7.jpg

Where's The Crap Green Glass?!?!

Please tell me they didn't name this thing after Radio City Music Hall.

^Why, yes they did - I don't blame them since we have no landmarks to call our own (like a 400 foot radio transmisson tower towering over the former home base of CBC radio)

Well, it's not like you could blame anybody for making that assumption. LOL!!

Don't worry Flatirion...I bet there are dozens of other condo projects that may actually be hijacking names made famous in NYC. And others you could assume are because the world revolves around New York??....like...

22 Condominiums....after the 21 restaurant...they are just not too bright, and are off by one number.

Cosmo....must be named after Kramer's first name...can't be more New Yorky than that?


More strange yet, is this New Yorker's facination with all things Toronto???? Constant trolling....constant Toronto vs threads.

I find it odd.






KGB

"22 Condominiums?" Nonsense, KGB, they've obviously named it after 23rd Street and gotten it one digit wrong in the other direction. And Cosmo is an obvious reference to the well-known New York socialite Cosima Von Bulow, last seen in these parts about 1997, down at Le Cirque, eating macademia nuts straight out of the jar. True, they've spelled her name wrong, but after six champagne cocktails, so did she.

^your not the brightest light out there are you?

Hey Flatiron is just having some sarcastic fun. No idea why he comes to these forums though, he said himself he doesn't like the city.

"your not the brightest light out there are you?"

Now there's a witty rejoinder. The misspelling of "you're" is a particularly nice touch.

Hey Flatiron is just having some sarcastic fun. No idea why he comes to these forums though, he said himself he doesn't like the city.

If he doesn't like the city then he should bugger off and leave the people who do alone. Stop raining on everybodies parade man.

What, were you not hugged enough as a child?

An insular worldview breeds strange (often perverse) fascination with the outside world once one's confronted with it. If one's terms of reference and identity are hermetically bound-up in a place, all exteriority will be processed through that place, thus the "radio city - must be radio city music hall" response predictably provided by flatiron.

"Now there's a witty rejoinder. The misspelling of "you're" is a particularly nice touch."

It happens

"Hey Flatiron is just having some sarcastic fun"

but at his own cost? that doesn't fit his profile

As your city has recently gifted the planet's surface with a series of yuppie-condo dumps styled after the (yawn) Chrysler Building, etc., called "The Rockefeller," etc., it doesn't sound too out of the question that this flipper-shaped, ah, appendage might represent more of the same....?

Funny thing is, when people ignore your burg you call them insular too. I guess there's no way for someone not from Toronto to NOT be insular.

As to my overweaning interest in all things Racoon, well, hey, when confronted with a bevy of people trumpeting the earthly glories of a place, I suppose it's only right and good to establish it as a standard through meticulous comparison with other places fair and foul?

In other words...relax, I'm only funnin' ya.

Except for Valentino, who can piss up an imitation Empire State Building, call it "The Carnegie" and settle in to admire the view.

^You don't ignore Toronto but I would call you insular.

Anyways, its lame developers that name projects not the residence of the city.

I think the word you're looking for is "sadistic."

Flaitron


Its just an name for 'marketing purposes' to attract attention. Does everything have to be dumbed down for you?? Theres also older buildings in the city called 'the vancouver' , 'the montreal' etc. etc. With 1500+ completed 12s+ buildings, what do you expect.

But I call marketing of this nature "dumbing down." Why not call the building by its address and have done with it? The age of calling apartment buildings names is and should be well and truly over, don't you think? "The Dakota," my ass.

^Yes alright I agree, naming buildings is LAME.

And you are sadistic as well as being many other things.

Why don't you stop taking this thread off topic.

But I call marketing of this nature "dumbing down." Why not call the building by its address and have done with it? The age of calling apartment buildings names is and should be well and truly over, don't you think? "The Dakota," my ass.

And thank god your not in marketing. Or if you are, don't worry, I'll put some change in your cup when I walk by.

Okay...back on topic (thought I was).

The skin of the building is actually quite well handled...I like the relationship of the two twoers to each other, but it's a bit hard to tell what they look like from the street (in that I can't tell if the buildings are on a podium or set into a irregular "square." I like the latter idea. The rendering looks like shit. The name sucks.

Happy?

My dear Roch. The day I take up a job in marketing is the day Frosty the Snowman declares himself King of Hell. Better a prostitute be--they actually give their clients pleasure and don't call a blowjob "a Kensington!"

^ Lol. Good, my spare change comes in handy when I want a coffee.

Of course it's a good development...pretty much guaranteed when you pair Context with Clewes.




"I can't tell if the buildings are on a podium or set into a irregular "square." I like the latter idea. "


It's the latter....it will have a central plaza (138 x 72 feet)...although the smaller tower will have a partial eight-storey transitional podium. it's actually a fairly big site..a full hectare. Besides the two towers, there will be 18 townhomes, a new walkway between Jarvis and Mutual St....as well as restoring two large historic buildings (Havergal College, built in 1898, and Northfield House, built in 1856).

It's also a mixed-use project...they sold part of the site to the National Ballet School for $1, for their state-of-the-art $87.5 million academic and dance training facility (called Project Grand Jete)...which allowed them to triple the density!!






"The name sucks."


Well, that's because you can't relate to it...(Alex1 was deadly correct in his assessment).

There are plenty of lame marketing names...but this one is actually appropriate..."Radio City" is a term used by CBC...it's also the long time home of the old CBC studios...that huge old tower used to be dubbed the "Eiffel on Jarvis" ...it was the tallest structure in the city I believe at the time ( 1952 ).






KGB

As your city has recently gifted the planet's surface with a series of yuppie-condo dumps styled after the (yawn) Chrysler Building, etc., called "The Rockefeller," etc., it doesn't sound too out of the question that this flipper-shaped, ah, appendage might represent more of the same....?

Funny thing is, when people ignore your burg you call them insular too. I guess there's no way for someone not from Toronto to NOT be insular.

As to my overweaning interest in all things Racoon, well, hey, when confronted with a bevy of people trumpeting the earthly glories of a place, I suppose it's only right and good to establish it as a standard through meticulous comparison with other places fair and foul?

In other words...relax, I'm only funnin' ya.

Except for Valentino, who can piss up an imitation Empire State Building, call it "The Carnegie" and settle in to admire the view.


I think this is some proof you really know a LOT less about Toronto than you seem to claim. The name is quite appropriate and has nothing to do with New York or any other city...

"Why not call the building by its address and have done with it? The age of calling apartment buildings names is and should be well and truly over, don't you think?"

281 Mutual Street vs Radiocity - no I don't think so.

"As to my overweaning interest in all things Racoon, well, hey, when confronted with a bevy of people trumpeting the earthly glories of a place, I suppose it's only right and good to establish it as a standard through meticulous comparison with other places fair and foul?"

Ah yes, in reality the so called 'trumpeting' developed long after in defense to the condescending attitude of the American forumers towards everything not their own. Even your own established standard of comparison bears this trait and therefore is biased and of little use.