{"id":21430,"date":"2011-07-20T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=21430"},"modified":"2013-03-20T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:16:57","slug":"no-mean-city-interior-flash-at-corus-quay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/20\/no-mean-city-interior-flash-at-corus-quay\/","title":{"rendered":"NO MEAN CITY: Interior Flash at Corus Quay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21436\" title=\"corus-lobby\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/corus-lobby.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/corus-lobby.jpg 990w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/corus-lobby-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/corus-lobby-600x463.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/toronto\/feature-nomeancity-600.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Cross-posted from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\"><em>No Mean City,<\/em><\/a><em> Alex&#8217;s personal blog on architecture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/story\/20110609\/interior-flash\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a story I wrote for Metropolis Magazine <\/a>about the interiors at Corus Quay. That&#8217;s the new office building on Toronto&#8217;s central waterfront, built by the city&#8217;s economic development agency and designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsai.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond Schmitt. <\/a>The architecture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/224630\" target=\"_blank\">earned plenty of criticism<\/a> from the waterfront design review panel back in 2007, and yawns from some critics. For the record, I think the building is nicely detailed, sited well (especially in connection to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\/?p=975\" target=\"_blank\"> Sugar Beach, which I love<\/a>) &#8211; and, still, wrong for the site. This spot ideally should have a building that is visually bolder and generates much more street life.<\/p>\n<p>The interiors by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quadrangle.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quadrangle Architects<\/a> are a different story, more inventive and memorable. They range from theme-park-kitschy to quite beautiful. Says the architect: &#8220;These people are hip. The last thing they wanted was to move into an office building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/story\/20110609\/interior-flash\" target=\"_blank\">Judge for yourself. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex&#8217;s personal blog on architecture. Here&#8217;s a story I wrote for Metropolis Magazine about the interiors at Corus Quay. That&#8217;s the new office building on Toronto&#8217;s central waterfront, built by the city&#8217;s economic development agency and designed by Diamond Schmitt. The architecture earned plenty of criticism from the waterfront design<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/20\/no-mean-city-interior-flash-at-corus-quay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;NO MEAN CITY: Interior Flash at Corus Quay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4088,"featured_media":21436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21759,5],"tags":[6296,174],"class_list":["post-21430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-features","category-waterfront","tag-alex","tag-no-mean-city"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NO MEAN CITY: Interior Flash at Corus Quay - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/20\/no-mean-city-interior-flash-at-corus-quay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NO MEAN CITY: Interior Flash at Corus Quay - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex&#8217;s personal blog on architecture. 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