buildings
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Mercury 1 & 2...mostly all black, Skyrisecities, "YEAHHHHHH so cool! so modern!", This building, mostly all black, Skyrisecities, "BOO!!! what were they thinking?!"
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JuliallThat
Active Member
It's so monolithic anyways. Some awnings on the front over the shopfronts would do wonders to clean up the look.
Abba
Active Member
TAS
Senior Member
It's the podium portion only that I dislike.
IanO
Superstar
I don't think you can compare or criticize the plans for that tower to the Mercury.
This is a very positive step forward for that asset, will relieve the area in many ways and will add a little visual flair to the neighbourhood.
This is a very positive step forward for that asset, will relieve the area in many ways and will add a little visual flair to the neighbourhood.
erudyk_29
Active Member
I think the big difference between this and Mercury is Mercury looks like an urban, modern design while the Sunrise looks like a retrofit of an old Best Western. Not saying that to poke fun or say it looks "bad" but that's just the vibes it gives me.
crisp
Active Member
One is an entirely new building designed from scratch. One is a retrofit of an old ugly building.
Sunrise is getting my vote of approval, the only thing better they could have done is to tear it down. Plus, why everyone hopped up on the idea that a building called sunrise is black? The black makes the colored panels stand out. Which are actually a specific color tone that resembles something...... hmmmmmmmm.......
Sunrise is getting my vote of approval, the only thing better they could have done is to tear it down. Plus, why everyone hopped up on the idea that a building called sunrise is black? The black makes the colored panels stand out. Which are actually a specific color tone that resembles something...... hmmmmmmmm.......
David A
Senior Member
It doesn't have the lighter beautiful main floor that Mercury does or the part in the middle that breaks it up. No those small squares don't quite do it, the dark is still a bit overwhelming and the structure remains plain.
crisp
Active Member
Pretty sure what you see here is the maximum allowance in the developer's budget before a complete tear-down to surface parking conversion was a more viable option.
Greenspace
Senior Member
David A
Senior Member
It is more a design issue. Unless the only thing in their budget is paint, there are some smaller not expensive things that could be done to improve this.
kcantor
Senior Member
Another example of “it doesn’t matter that much, they’re developers and they can just print more money to pay for whatever we what or whatever we want to change”.
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retiredfire
Active Member
Reno is almost complete to this building on the corner of 107st and 102 ave
IanO
Superstar
Do they pay taxes? Look at those roads!
CaptainBL
Active Member
It took about 3 days after the last snow fall for the roads downtown to be cleaned. I have no idea why that is acceptable.