The Great Canadian "If you were a developer (Just for fun)" Thread

[urbandreamer]

Here's a really lame remix: XOXO skeleton






Why not build it in Edmonton?

[urbandreamer]

How many times can you remix a dog?

[TorontoDrew]

Your designs keep getting better urbandreamer.

[urbandreamer]

Delete corrupt TCHC rubbish


Insert Aylmer House:


~60 storeys is appropriate nextdoor to Rosedale subway station.


v1.1 to include balconies?

[TorontoDrew]

Was bored at work today so I started to work on a super-tall idea I've been thinking of. Currently 116 floors, I still want to make a podium and adjust the penthous levels so it should come on around 106 floors give or take a few. I'm hoping to comp it into a background to the east of the ACC.


Teaser image.

[urbandreamer]

^Even as a midrise that would be a cool design for the Yorkville or King West area. I too am frequently--dare I say 99% of the time?--bored at work, but the past few months' have been so busy I've been too mentally exhausted to create anything interesting in SketchUp. Trying to find my groove again with another angle on


Oh here's one I started a few month's ago and kinda wanna finish it someday:



(Inspired by one of my favourite Toronto office towers: 900 Bay Street (Mowat Block)--proposed location: SE corner St Thomas Street and Bloor Street West)

And here's a quick massing idea: who's gonna win the game tonight? Probably ain't worth a


What software are you using?

[urbandreamer]

You wanna bore me?

[urbandreamer]

Yes I am very very very bored

[urbandreamer]

I'll keep remixing this box until I like it--not yet


I do like the idea behind the Yonge & Sexy, which is why I'm stripping it down and rebuilding it into something sexier

[urbandreamer]

black + white condos facade about complete


still to come: elevator core/support columns/demising walls/floor plans/balconies/podium/mechPH

[dleung]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Was bored at work today so I started to work on a super-tall idea I've been thinking of. Currently 116 floors, I still want to make a podium and adjust the penthous levels so it should come on around 106 floors give or take a few. I'm hoping to comp it into a background to the east of the ACC.


Teaser image.

I like this typology, and deemphasizing of the vertical. Try one where the cross bracing are single diagonals rather than X's, and responded to where cantilevers are, so that they look more structural.

[urbandreamer]

^You gave me an idea ... but this slight remix of Yonge & Grenville--Yongeville Condos--isn't it:




Stack as many storeys as you can sell

But without balconies it simply won't sell in T.O.

Could another remix be on the way?

[urbandreamer]

Tiny update to Yongeville Condos: more brick less glass

[urbandreamer]

Should I get back into fantasy design?

Really missing my creative outlet thanks to work getting in the way.

[urbandreamer]

grey towers are boring

red brick is better

minimalism is getting boring

time for some decoration

[urbandreamer]

rearrange the window dressing

[urbandreamer]

Nothing ground breaking going on here--just some simple window dressing selfies
1)concrete and brick

2)concrete and brick 2

3)precast concrete can look good

4)matte black with tiny LED stars = black star condos

[urbandreamer]

window dressing is starting to interest me again, don't know how well it pays

(1000th post on ssp took me over 9 years.)

[urbandreamer]

5 minutes in SketchUp trying to get my creativity flowing again.


A few month's ago I had an idea for a South Core office tower:

[urbandreamer]

I'm gonna remix the best