ChazYEG
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Gotta love the guy shovelling snow!
But really, these prices and they can't even afford to give the poor guy a proper snow remover? HAHAHA
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But really, these prices and they can't even afford to give the poor guy a proper snow remover? HAHAHA
JMatt88
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David A
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The stone work looks nice, especially at the main level, but a few windows in that overwhelming wall would be good too.
EtoV
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I find it funny that the marketing for this is clearly trying to sell the massive blank wall as some sort of "feature wall"
_urbanite
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A 12 storey blank wall is still a 12 storey blank walk regardless of how nice you try to make it look with lighting and different textures
I could see it if they were marketing it as privacy given the demo they are going for.
Gated communities or a blank wall in this case are for the affluent. Then again, perhaps they don't want the giant wall to be seen as being a gated community for the wealthy.
ChazYEG
Senior Member
you can make it artistically interesting, depending on how you work it
Oilers99
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the blank wall looks fine in my opinion?
strata
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I also think it looks good assuming the stone will be as textured as the renders make it out to be.
With the energy requirements constantly changing in the building code, if you are going to have windows on basically the entire side of the building facing the river valley, don't you need to have a large portion of that back side of the building "enclosed"? I am not the expert, but I was under the impression that it will become harder and harder to do new towers with mostly glazing as the code gets closer to net zero.
With the energy requirements constantly changing in the building code, if you are going to have windows on basically the entire side of the building facing the river valley, don't you need to have a large portion of that back side of the building "enclosed"? I am not the expert, but I was under the impression that it will become harder and harder to do new towers with mostly glazing as the code gets closer to net zero.
David A
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Maybe they meant featureless wall
Stevey_G
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Very simply too. Break the wall up with the dark outstanding vertical elements lit up on the backside by LEDs. As it stands that wall is far too monolithic (albeit looks to be made from a beautiful stone).
occidentalcapital
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That might just be the nicest blank wall I've ever seen.
cmd uw
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Correct. The more glazing, the more you need to spend elsewhere to pass the code - which means more $$$.
cmd uw
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I am going to say (as I've stated on this forum before) that this 'blank wall' will be very well done.
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Most people won't know what well done really means though, nor will they care. There are a multitude of expensive materials they can use to make the wall more expensive and marketable to their respective future owners.
Like I said before, this building caters to a certain demographic and the blank wall gives the units privacy. There is a reason affluent communities are gated and the wall on this proposal offers the same.