Schembri King St Student Apartments | 46 m | 15 fl | Proposed

WaterlooInvestor · #1 Posted: **Nov 13, 2007, 6:14 AM**

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WaterlooInvestor · #2 Posted: **Dec 14, 2007, 7:47 PM**

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Cambridgite · #3 Posted: **Jan 4, 2008, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by WaterlooInvestor

Excavation has begun.

Lord help us all.

kitchener-lrt · #4 Posted: **Jan 4, 2008, 7:59 PM**

It looks like something from the show George Shrinks (a show that I used to watch, long ago

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rapid_business · #5 Posted: **Jan 5, 2008, 7:18 AM**

So any chance the real project will look nothing like this?

kitchener-lrt · #6 Posted: **Jan 5, 2008, 8:07 PM**

At least it's more high density in K-W!

rapid_business · #7 Posted: **Jan 6, 2008, 6:24 PM**

Forget high density when it has no street interaction and looks like absolute sh*t. I'm sorry, I'd rather have the equivalent number of suburban houses built out the far west end then crap like this polluting our city centre and remaining as an eyesore for the next 60-odd years. Design like this should have died with the Berlin wall in '89 along with the rest of the Soviet empire. There is no excuse for this abomination.

Cambridgite · #8 Posted: **Jan 6, 2008, 7:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by onishenko

Design like this should have died with the Berlin wall in 89 along with the rest of the Soviet empire.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Waterlooian4Life · #9 Posted: **Mar 8, 2008, 2:43 AM**

looks like excavation began today on this piece of shit

rapid_business · #10 Posted: **Mar 8, 2008, 3:49 AM**

Fingers crossed for something that shows a little better then what is posted above.

Cambridgite · #11 Posted: **Mar 8, 2008, 5:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by Waterlooian4Life

looks like excavation began today on this piece of shit

Why, god, WHY?!?!

WaterlooRegioner · #12 Posted: **Mar 23, 2008, 10:06 PM**

It may look bad, but I still consider it a step up from what's the norm around the universities. Around the universities, especially on king you have many older homes that are rented by students and have landlords who let the places becomes slums. You often see trash, beer cans etc. on the lawns and the houses themselves get very little maintenance. With a large apartment like this and a development company that has their reputation on the line you are given the blessing of landlords who actually care to some degree and will more thab likely keep up the lawn and maintenance much better. You are looking at this question...would you rather have decrepid old single homes or better maintained high density living space that looks ugly? I go with the latter, ugly vs. ugly except one is cleaner than the other. Plus you can't deny the benefits of high density in general. I'm not saying I like this project at all, but I'm just looking at the bright side.

rapid_business · #13 Posted: **Mar 23, 2008, 10:38 PM**

I'm going to have to disagree with you. With the decrepit single homes rented as you described, at least there was the chance that in the future a better project could be integrated here. In the future when Waterloo adopts design control guidelines as dictated by the provincial planning act and as practiced by such cities as Vancouver, recently Edmonton and potentially Toronto very soon.

What you have now is a structure that will last for 40 years+ that will be an eyesore on a major node and area of future intensification. I say screw density when it doesn't interact with the street well, and will be the future ghettoized building of King Street. I don't have any tolerance for sh*tty design. It's nothing more then developers cheaping out and the city letting then get away with it. Look to the new Laurier residence two blocks north of this. 1000 times better, and something that will age well.

Now if you want to talk materials, we could about the stucco. Stucco belongs on single family homes... and even there it's showing age already. Never... I repeat...NEVER on a high-rise building. It looks sooo tacky when it's done.

Anyways... the bright side? sure density I guess... The only bright side I can see is that someone buys it off Shembri and revives the old design. Or, that in 10-15 years from now, it's rettro-fitted with a new exterior, windows, the whole 9. That's about it.