Now this is just plain stupid. As if the CN Tower wasn't an overbearing presence on the skyline already, the geniuses who manage it are going to make it a cartoon version of itself -- a gaudy, candy-coloured eyesore of an overbearing presence. Why, oh why, are we not surprised? Maybe because, in Toronto's try-hard urges for architectural acceptance, it'll do almost anything to get noticed -- actual aesthetic and contextual acumen be damned? (see, Crystal, ROM, for further detail.)
We're not fond of the tower and its try-hard genesis in general. Buildings built with the express purpose of being landmarks rarely become them in any genuine sense; they just meander along with their 'hey, look at me!' sign permanently affixed -- which is so, so sad, really, and which the colour-iffic silliness we see here just serves to highlight.
We don't hate the goofy old tower, per se; it's kind of cute, in the slow-kid-at-school sort of way. As to the nonsense depicted above, though, we think Torontoist said it best, with the new LED lighting system "dramatically transforming a brilliant exercise in modernist subtlety into a cheap, plastic martini spear." They go on to say "(w)e think that whatever happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas." Amen to that, brother. Word.
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