That is/was the standard colour scheme for the REIT owner. There's dozens of towers across Canada with that scheme.

Some better renderings of the Trebla building re-clad and adaptive reuse (office to residetial).

vs today:

https://obj.ca/sites/default/files/s...?itok=Mwb5hfBS
https://obj.ca/article/interrent-rei...ing-apartments

A recent Ottawa reclad. A 1965 office building in the CBD.

Recald of a concrete late-70s, early-80s residential tower. From dellisd on Rail Fans Discord.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...472&height=630

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...472&height=630

A few from Ottawa.

Compared to so many terrible re-clades and paint jobs at Lees, Centretown, Elmvale Acres, this is very well done.

https://i.postimg.cc/NMLGWbVJ/20220825-133404.jpg

Here's the 2007 streetview from the other side of the building.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4354...!7i3328!8i1664

Another is the old Trebla Building, renamed the Slayte, in the Escarpment District. Conversion from office to residential. With the right mix of tenants along the ground floor retail, it could help bridge the gap between the CBD and the slowly redeveloping LeBreton area, the Escarpment District being quite dead for such a dense residential neighbourhood.

Office to residential conversion proposed in Ottawa's CBD.

https://i.postimg.cc/ncRkbGyP/O-Connor-Conversion.jpg

https://obj.ca/a-change-of-space-mor...housing-grows/

https://i.postimg.cc/k5dRkVgH/Ottawa...r-Mach2400.jpg
https://renx.ca/groupe-mach-repositi...r-office-tower

From bleak Centretown office to bleak Centretown apartments.

Here's a pic from the front. "Framing" the building with the new material but keeping the concrete strips near the middle just makes this so much worse.

https://i.postimg.cc/KvJtSvxZ/Reclad.png

that is garbage.. c'mon Ottawa.. national capital deserves better.

Couple of large scale reclads in Hull, Place du Portage and Terraces de la Chaudière Federal Office complexes.