Place 800 | 68m | 17s | Peoplefirst

[CalgaryTiger]

The inset windows are interesting... I don't think this one will be as bad as I had feared.

 

[Cgloins]

 

[Cowtown]

 

[Surrealplaces]

It looks like lots of interior work has already been done.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

They seem to be moving pretty quickly with this one. Curious to see how the exterior comes together. So far, I don't hate it.

 

[Vicwest9]

Exterior cladding starting

 

[Cowtown]

It doesn’t look terrible. The original cladding was very boring, so not hard to the the same or better.

 

[The Familia]

I’m not hating it. I like the brighter white. I wish the panels were bigger and didn’t have so many vertical lines, but as of now, I think this one is a sight improvement!

 

[FCC1982]

I am hating it.
Looks terrible now.

 

[maestro]

The effort taken to deliver grey metal siding and prison sized windows with higher office slab to slab heights through building out and covering the existing facade. The placement of the windows has more design intent than the average new build maximizing sellable floor space with faked randomness and/or spandrel glass. The outcome is still a structure that just about anyone would describe as bland and cheap looking.

 

[Tothewest]

The effort taken to deliver grey metal siding and prison sized windows with higher office slab to slab heights through building out and covering the existing facade. The placement of the windows has more design intent than the average new build maximizing sellable floor space with faked randomness and/or spandrel glass. The outcome is still a structure that just about anyone would describe as bland and cheap looking.

What exactly did you expect them to do, the design of the tower was what it was. Massive prefab concrete panels limiting the size of the windows. They were never going to strip the entire exterior, that's a fast way of making these projects uneconomical and thus...dated and still empty.

It's looking exactly as they said it would, which i don't mind at all. It's a conversion, these aren't going to be masterpieces

 

[kora]

Generally speaking, all these reclads are replacing mediocre design with mediocre design

 

[Tothewest]

Correct, to me this is still a big improvement from what is what tho, but it certainly isn't beautiful. The mechanical is what fails before anything structural...they are adding 30 years to these buildings. Plus the density and tax base

 

[maestro]

What exactly did you expect them to do, the design of the tower was what it was. Massive prefab concrete panels limiting the size of the windows. They were never going to strip the entire exterior, that's a fast way of making these projects uneconomical and thus...dated and still empty.

It's looking exactly as they said it would, which i don't mind at all. It's a conversion, these aren't going to be masterpieces

I don't know where you get the idea that my expectations are a masterpiece by pointing out the tremendous effort taken to not only cover the pre-existing precast panels and building out the new windows and their symmetrical placements vs engineered around maximum returns.

No, in no way have I implied remove the pre-cast panels. Maybe not reduce the percentage of vision glass from the original. And, if the pre-cast was in a shape that required encapsulation which I'm getting from your post than pick a contemporary cladding and colours that, as I said, just about anyone wouldn't find cheap and ugly. You don't have to break the bank either.

There's a large range between masterpiece and dud. Granted, that gets lost when it comes to conversion in Calgary and a growing number of new developments not by Truman. Respectfully, this is very near dud so far. There aren't may ways to make it look worse although the two toned cladding in the rendering applies as making it look worse. The aged original looked better.

 

[1875]