Burano | Complete | 50 fl | 163m | Downtown

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by isaidso

MacLean-Hunter is a decent building (I wish it were triple the height), but it ruined College Park.

It ruined it? How so?

[Taller, Better]

and window treatments, like vertical blinds!

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by H2X

well that's why we have interior partitions

Suit yourself, but I prefer buildings with exterior walls as well. And I clearly said I want proper WALLS. We have a word for a panel of glass, it's called a 'WINDOW'

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

It ruined it? How so?

College Park is a classic 1930s skyscraper and they add a 1970s glass office tower to where one quarter of the building was intended to go. It looks absolutely ridiculous. What's next building a Sears on the roof of Union Station?

Besides, when/if they ever finish College Park they'll have to tear the whole thing down because it's sitting on part of the original floor plate.

[Taller, Better]

Originally Posted by isaidso

College Park is a classic 1930s skyscraper and they add a 1970s glass office tower to where one quarter of the building was intended to go. It looks absolutely ridiculous. What's next building a Sears on the roof of Union Station?

Besides, when/if they ever finish College Park they'll have to tear the whole thing down because it's sitting on part of the original floor plate.

It was a really sad addition, wasn't it?

We lost out big time because of the depression. So many cool projects got the axe. We were supremely lucky to still get Commerce Court. The cornerstone was laid on Black Friday, the
day the market crashed.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Taller, Better

It was a really sad addition, wasn't it?

We lost out big time because of the depression. So many cool projects got the axe. We were supremely lucky to still get Commerce Court. The cornerstone was laid on Black Friday, the
day the market crashed.

Yes. I actually like MacLean Hunter, just not in that location. The worst butchering is on the Yonge Street stretch. The 5 storey addition is just awful.

I'm trying to be the eternal optimist and hope that 10, 20, 30 years down the road an ambitious wealthy admirer of College Park will see fit to have the building completed in some form. Perhaps the Yonge Street stretch could be finished and a slightly altered version of the tower could rise.

It's probably too late to have the exact building due to MacLean Hunter and College Park I, but we can still have most of that 1930 building we were supposed to have. If Germany and Poland can build whole sections of their cities 40 years after WW2, we can finish 1 building. It would beautify downtown Toronto immeasurably. I believe the original was to be 205 m tall.

[Taller, Better]

They did a smashing job of saving the façade of the McGlauchlan building:





How the Burano fits in with the Murano's:





they are working on the balconies on the south side of Muranos:

[ONE HUMAN]

Originally Posted by Taller, Better

They did a smashing job of saving the façade of the McGlauchlan building:

McLaughlin. It says it right on the building! You sure you were there?

Nice pics though.

[Taller, Better]

oops!!


mea culpa........

[Innsertnamehere]

the murano twins look a whole lot nicer now that this has been completed.

[Taller, Better]

They are a pretty impressive addition to The Canyon.

[steveve]

Taken yesterday, not a whole lot to be said, amazing filler, that's it

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[steveve]

monday:


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[isaidso]

Originally Posted by steveve

Taken yesterday, not a whole lot to be said, amazing filler, that's it

image hosted on flickr

Agree. Burano is tall, but Sick Kids steals the show. Sick Kids is the centre piece.

[koolio]

As the kids would say ... that building is indeed quite sick.