what IS this

my two first questions are "Why" and "What" and then my third question is "Why"

if you're trying to mimic the original building why would you do THIS

what is this. what is happening at the bottom. those teal-grey panels are a different colour than the windows. are they just solid. what the hell

what the hell are these

i feel like i'm staring into a void

lets return back to this image because it has a lot

this doesn't answer my question. what kind of bullshit whimsy is this. who

please keep in mind where the Chamber of Whimsy is located on the building because I think we'll come back to that later

also if you could just show me the whimsy the original Chateau Laurier is known for that would be great. just point to it, the part where the whimsy is. please just tell me the location of the whimsy

also this is a pretty slim addition so where does big open arch go

maybe this is unfair because I kinda suspect the artist who drew this hasn't considered the interior, but as others have pointed out before me (@DanSeljB !) if you want to do buildings you gotta consider this

("this" being "the inside of the actual building")

speaking of the inside what are these triangle windows for? is this where the orphans sleep? who gets these weird triangles

what are these chimneys connected to??? andrew king..... please..... what are these chimneys do mr king why have you drawn chimneys when you have not drawn an inside of the building to connect chimneys to

lets take a moment for MATERIALITY which is the word we use to describe THE MATERIALS IT IS TO BE MADE OF

in this tweet andrew king describes some of the materials that he would propose using: oxidized copper https://twitter.com/twitandrewking/status/1134802551889698817

specifically he says "the greeen stuff on my sketches in the archway and vertical elements were oxidized copper sheet material."

so i have one question about this and maybe it's nitpicking but nitpicking is how buildings get build

whats the roof made of here

why isn't it also copper sheeting?

in the original chateau laurier the roof is also copper which has also patinated

so why..... why not do that too here

you could be generous I guess and say it's also copper in his sketches but.... he only calls out solely the green-coloured elements, specifically on the arch and the vertical elements, and he doesn't call out the actual roof

and like i really, really wonder why? because the original roof is copper???
it's important to note that the original roof was recently renovated in parts so it hasn't fully patinated but I don't know of any reason to expect it won't eventually patinate

So why not draw that??

you could be uncharitable and wonder if maybe he doesn't know the original roof is copper but he must know because why else would you call out patinated copper as a material used in the original building?? much like parents in the 80s I Just Don't Understand

and maybe i'm thinking the cart before the horse but I Am Pretty Sure an angled surface would naturally develop a patina before a vertical surface would

i have talked for TOO LONG about the roof let's look at something fun to cleanse the palate

me: *extremely lana del rey voice* it's so art deco / why is it here

ok this leads into my favourite part and it also gets back to the whimsy

what the hell is this thing????

i have never seen anything like this. it's a reverse flying buttress. its got two lil windows at the top. it actively prevents the addition of windows elsewhere. why would you do this? what is it for

is this where you store the secret princes you had out of wedlock

so I was looking at that dumb reverse buttress tower of shame wondering what on earth it could be used for

and then I wondered

what floor is it on

and what else is on that floor with it

because it's kinda super-awkwardly offset from the definitely occupiable floors with actual windows

so i highlighted what i think that floor is

look

at

this WHIMSICAL FLOOR

the fact that this proposal includes an entire floor with like twelve windows tops, i think, speaks to the fact that it is created as an effort at mimicking the existing CL / creating something suitably trad for the trad god

without any consideration for the interior at all

and I mean I respect that ottawanians (??) may not enjoy the current/final design of the CL extension - i honestly didn't mind this one - but I really don't think "sketching an outside that I like" is the best way to come up with a functional, sensible building that works

at this point it doesn't sound like people don't want anything other than what they think is exactly the same as what's already there

but like, at least try to do it right

(also the first proposal that everyone apparently hated also used limestone and copper, so maybe the problem is that everyone just hates seeing new things I guess)

i don't know how to address the problem of helping people to understand that one big part of why old buildings Look Like That is because That's How They Built Buildings Then and subsequently We Don't Build Buildings That Way Anymore

but it remains true

also back on the art deco fin

andrew king loves putting fins on everything doesn't he? that second one is a fin on fin. you dont see that too often