The Great Canadian reclad Thread!

[Chadillaccc]

Post any information about current and future reclads and redevelopments and also feel free to post any cool pictures of past projects as well.


First Canadian Place - Toronto




TD Tower - Halifax
current

FUTURE



TD Building - St. John's



No render of completed work available


Confederation Building - St. John's



No render of completed work available

[SignalHillHiker]

No render of what it will look like once completed, but I do have this picture I took of the Confederation Building being reclad. They're replacing the clear glass and green panels with blue glass and blue panels. I LOVE it... converts what is objectively Canada's ugliest provincial parliament from a glorified high school to a tolerable office building.



The Fortis Building in downtown St. John's is also to be reclad, I believe. And if ANYONE KNOWS what they're doing to that TD Building, PLEASE tell me. What a mess that site is. It reminds me of Bridge over the Drina, by Ivo Andric (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for it). In one passage he's describing how the Slavic townsfolk in this little Bosnian town reacted to the construction of a giant, Ottoman bridge in the 1500s. And the part that made me laugh was his description of all the scaffolding that went up, the dust, the noise, etc. And he ends this pages-long description of the construction site with, more or less, "And this mess that arose on both banks of the Drina river looked, to the townsfolk, like anything they could imagine. But not a bridge."

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

The Fortis Building in downtown St. John's is also to be reclad, I believe. And if ANYONE KNOWS what they're doing to that TD Building, PLEASE tell me. What a mess that site is. It reminds me of Bridge over the Drina, by Ivo Andric (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for it). In one passage he's describing how the Slavic townsfolk in this little Bosnian town reacted to the construction of a giant, Ottoman bridge in the 1500s. And the part that made me laugh was his description of all the scaffolding that went up, the dust, the noise, etc. And he ends this pages-long description of the construction site with, more or less, "And this mess that arose on both banks of the Drina river looked, to the townsfolk, like anything they could imagine. But not a bridge."

They're replacing the brick on the building. Once done it'll be closer to a grey brick than the current red/brown. Whether or not it'll look better than it does now will remain to be seen, but the color will somewhat match up with the attached 4-storey building to the west which has recently been painted to match the TD Place reclad. Once that's done, as well as the new fortis office building, fortis will reclad its old office though I do have to admit that I do like their current office, if they could place windows and detail along the west side so it wasn't just concrete it would be much better.

[Chadillaccc]

Thank GOD it actually looks good! The freaking foam green spandrel was just abhorrent.

How did I know that you would be the first to reply to this thread SignalHillHiker?

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Thank GOD it actually looks good! The freaking foam green spandrel was just abhorrent.

How did I know that you would be the first to reply to this thread SignalHillHiker?

'Cause I post a lot. And you baited me with not one but TWO St. John's pics.

[chrisallard5454]

160 Smith St. Winnipeg

New

http://www.streetseed.com/apartment-...nnipeg/152172d

Original

http://winnipegdowntownplaces.blogsp...s-on-york.html

[MTLskyline]

Originally Posted by chrisallard5454

160 Smith St. Winnipeg

Best re-cladding in this thread so far. Did the vocation of the building change?

Here's the best one in Montreal:
GM Building, Concordia Unviersity

Before

http://www.concordia.ca/about/major-...ampus/sgw/guy/

After (it's mostly done now, but the pic below gives you an idea anyway)

Originally Posted by Alexcaban

December 21

Concordia GM reno

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

[QUOTE=MTLskyline;5791123]Best re-cladding in this thread so far. Did the vocation of the building change?

Since original construction it has bounced back and forth from hotel to apartment building. It is now an apartment building with a very nice upscale restaurant and recently completed parking structure.

[vid]

Originally Posted by chrisallard5454

160 Smith St. Winnipeg

New

http://www.streetseed.com/apartment-...nnipeg/152172d

Original

http://winnipegdowntownplaces.blogsp...s-on-york.html

I was wondering what was up with that building. It looked new and old at the same time and it was kind of confusing but I didn't think too much of it at the time.

Thunder Bay's tallest has been undergoing a façade restoration for over two years now. It's almost done.







Another renovation is our City Hall:

[artvandelay]

Originally Posted by vid

Another renovation is our City Hall:

I think it was better before.

[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by artvandelay

I think it was better before.

I like the curved glass atrium at the front, if they put that on the old building it would have looked great.

Ah damn, I was going to post the TD Centre repaint. Oh well, here's a picture where you can see the difference:

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by vid

Another renovation is our City Hall:

What an absolute shame, it was so much better before.

[DrNest]

Some images of the Sutton Place reclad in Toronto.

Before:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5324

After:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5322

[SignalHillHiker]

^ Awesome reclad, ChrisAllard. The difference is amazing. All cities should do that to all of their old commieblocks.

[DrNest]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

^ Awesome reclad, ChrisAllard. The difference is amazing. All cities should do that to all of their old commieblocks.

Agreed. There's plenty in Toronto that need recladding. Fortunately Sutton Place is scheduled for one (I don't have the link but I'm sure there's info on it on this site).

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by DrNest

Agreed. There's plenty in Toronto that need recladding. Fortunately Sutton Place is scheduled for one (I don't have the link but I'm sure there's info on it on this site).

Fortunately?!?

[DrNest]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Fortunately?!?

Yes, fortunately. Look at the photo of Sutton Place Cal posted. It is so ugly, so to give it a make over and adding another 5 floors is very welcome to me.

[Chadillaccc]

Yeah seriously wow!!!

I've seen some amazing indoor renovations to the commieblocks in Calgary here, but all of them still look like hell on the outside!

[someone123]

The TD reclad in Halifax is supposed to start in the next couple of weeks. It's a major expansion of the building. The building's floor space will be approximately doubled.

Another big one in Halifax is the Fenwick tower expansion and recladding. This one is kind of sad because when it was almost approved the developer discovered that there was some kind of surveying problem and one of the viewplanes went through the space where the building was supposed to be built. Because of this the viewplane has to be amended for the development to move forward and the whole process has been delayed by months. That is all par for the course in Halifax. A lot of construction is happening there right now but it's mostly happening in spite of a very bureaucratic municipal government.


Source

By redevelopments for this thread I guess you mean only cases where the structures themselves are being substantially reused. Developments where the old buildings are torn down or only the facades are used would not count.

[Chadillaccc]

No, facade reservations don't count. Only buildings that maintain their structures and either have new structural components added or have their facades changed.