Posted Jul 16, 2015, 2:46 AM
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Construction of Holiday Inn Hotel
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Originally Posted by Mille Sabords
It wants to do the right thing, it has the potential to do the right thing, and yet it still fumbles and stumbles in a couple of respects IMO. The ground floor has to have more doors that open onto King Edward. The restaurant has to be a streetfront operation, for hotel guests and for people going to La Nouvelle Scène, and whoever else ends up walking up and down King Edward. The Murray Street side is too blank and given over to cars. The St. Patrick side is OK - the tucking-in of the vehicular lay-by doesn't unduly tax the public realm and represents an OK way to handle this operational function that hotels always say they need. In doing this, though, they yield to the temptation of turning their back on King Edward, and/or only leaving token glazing as the interface with that side which is -and should be treated as - the real front and most important facade. And, again IMO, the architecture is unsophisticated. It tries to do a few different things and ends up doing none convincingly.
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Maybe they should put more sliding doors. Where are they going to put the parking garage? To me, building a Holiday Inn hotel between St. Patrick's street and Murray Street is not a good idea. How can they fit a big hotel in a small plot of land?
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