Kings by LaCaille | 113m | 35s | LaCaille Group | S2

[Beltline_B]

Personally, I like the spandrel on this one, but for those who don’t, you can ease the pain by taking a look at the building to the left in Alex‘s last photo.

 

[urbanburbs]

 

[Albertasaurus]

15 floors...almost halfway there!

 

[1875]

this seems faster than the few towers weve had go up recently

 

[JTron]

I don’t understand the hate for the glass. IMO it’s very solid.

 

[O-tac]

I think the hate is mostly for the blue spandrel.

 

[Albertasaurus]

I'm fine with the glass and/or spandrel. Just glad we are getting a downtown highrise after a pretty long dry spell.

 

[O-tac]

I at least appreciate that there's no contrasting colours like Lacaille's other projects that make the blue spandrel pop and look worse. At lease it blends in and melts into the background.

 

[Urb]

I think it's fine. Window wall is a premium product relative to a lot the other tower envelope systems (Uni District, Francesco's, Nest) currently being built.

 

[Roaring Flames]

It's the spiderweb of mullions I dislike

 

[CT_]

The spandrel is fine... but the mullions should be colour-matched to the spandrel IMO. Right now, the light gray contrasts too much with the darker blue --- even a darker shade of gray would match better.

See: The Park

 

[haltcatchfire]

Using The Park as an example of what to do is not what I was expecting to see today.

 

[O-tac]

Using The Park as an example of what to do is not what I was expecting to see today.

Indeed. I was actually thinking of that blue-porta-pottie-on-the-park when I mentioned the ugliness of the blue spandrel. In this case perhaps the metallic mullions aid the design?

 

[Cowtown]

I like the metal mullions as opposed to using mullions of the same color.