Manulife Place Renovations | 145.99m | 36s | AIMCo | MdeAS

[IanO]

 

[policyenthusiast]

I dunno what you cats are whining about. The signage on the west side and on the south side look fine at night. There is no signage on the north side nor the east side, but maybe that's likely due to the fact that this building is obscured by neighboring towers. I'll have to take another look during the daytime.

I think it's just puns, not complaints. a "bad sign" means ominous, a red flag meaning the same but also it's literally a red flag

 

[archited]

^ At least someone gets it.

 

[David A]

they could have at least centered it.

Well at least more impressive than the RBC Tower, the BMO Tower and Scotia's towers. Oh, they don't have them here anymore. We are just an outpost for them relegated to tiny branches with little visible presence.

 

[Out of Towner]

The red stands out nicely (bank is in the red, ohh great) and is nice against the blue but the sign itself is proportionally not correct. It's just tacked on there any old way. But its good enough boys. Nobody will notice. Nobody cares. Collect our fee and call it a day.

 

[Greenspace]

 

[Out of Towner]

The sign is better at night than during the day imho.

 

[JMatt88]

Would be nicer if the sign stayed as CWB/Canadian Western Bank

 

[Gronk!]

Taken today at 1 pm

 

[degrandprix]

Half the sign is the framing behind it

 

[JMatt88]

Just a very sad sign overall

 

[devobersver]

I feel the just need to paint the supports black and it would be notably better

 

[David A]

Would be nicer if the sign stayed as CWB/Canadian Western Bank

Maybe that is the real issue for some people here, but that ship already sailed a while ago. Lets just try to make the best of the new situation.

 

[supaflyryguy]

I feel the just need to paint the supports black and it would be notably better

It's shoddy work all around. If the building structure required this kind of frame to hold up the sign, it should have been designed to conceal or incorporate the frame into the overall design, not look like shit that was meant to be behind a wall.

 

[kcantor]

It's shoddy work all around. If the building structure required this kind of frame to hold up the sign, it should have been designed to conceal or incorporate the frame into the overall design, not look like shit that was meant to be behind a wall.

I'm not sure that it's shoddy work per se. It is, however, absolutely sh!tty design all around.

What they've done is compromise a quarter billion dollar or so building undergoing a $45 million dollar plus renovation by being too cheap to do the signage right.

There was/is no real need to "hang it over the parapet" just to avoid removing and reinstalling some spandrel panels in order to do it right.

There was also no need to use this particular spacing (or language for that matter) between the logo and the text. There are examples within their standard branding that demonstrate the flexibility to allow for better than this.