Colour and Shape in Downtown South

In the context of Downtown South, we’d argue this is more a midrise – albeit at 13 storeys a robust midrise. The building is the privately funded replacement for Jubilee House across the street, that in turn will be redeveloped as a high-rise strata and rental tower. It will have 162 units of affordable housing.
We suspect the blue colour is protective film that hasn’t been removed yet: the architects, GBL, used a similar set of green shades on another recently completed non-market building on Howe Street where the Odyssey nightclub was once located.

I like the bits of colour. Two shades of green. It’s a nice touch.
This can be done badly though with the wrong colours chosen. A good example of bad is the, “Tommy Hifliger Building” on 4th Avenue. Red, blue and white shapes randomly arranged. It’s ugly.