I really have grown fond of this revised massing, which is what I think it is more than anything. I'm not too worried about the district they showed looking like a City Place 2 - yet. There's a lot of potential for some great design here if developers are willing and take the time to do things right. As for the main site in question, I wouldn't mind seeing a spire or two thrown on one of those towers to give it more of an iconic presence on the skyline (The elevation drawings of the skyline from the south were also pretty awesome).
 
I thought Ontario or Toronto recently brought in new regulations limiting the amount of glass that could be used in a highrise?
 
ssiguy2 said:
I thought Ontario or Toronto recently brought in new regulations limiting the amount of glass that could be used in a highrise?
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Vision glass. Spandrel is still OK (under the new regs, if not aesthetically), as it's more energy-efficient than windows. Though again, these are just massing studies, so we can't make any inferences about the cladding.
 
Toronto brought in regulations to limit the amount of vision glass (windows) to a 40/60 split with opaque, insulated exteriors, to make buildings more energy efficient. The insulated exteriors could use brick, or precast, or aluminum, or zinc, or stone, or composite material like okoskin, or glass spandrel, etc.… so the exterior could still be 100% glass, as long as 60% of it is now insulated.

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interchange42 said:
Toronto brought in regulations to limit the amount of vision glass (windows) to a 40/60 split with opaque, insulated exteriors, to make buildings more energy efficient. The insulated exteriors could use brick, or precast, or aluminum, or zinc, or stone, or composite material like okoskin, or glass spandrel, etc.… so the exterior could still be 100% glass, as long as 60% of it is now insulated.

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I doubt it but, I hope this applies only to window wall otherwise, things are going to get very ugly. Don't see developers shifting from glass spandrel.
 
It applies to all residential buildings: 40% vision glass max, no matter what the rest of the cladding is.

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So I building can still be solid glass if it wants?

Does anyone maybe have a pick of the difference between a glass spandrel and a glass spandrel with windows? I don't see how a glass building doesn't qualify as a window.
 
ssiguy2 said:
So I building can still be solid glass if it wants?

Does anyone maybe have a pick of the difference between a glass spandrel and a glass spandrel with windows? I don't see how a glass building doesn't qualify as a window.
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See, for example, First Canadian Place. It is entirely clad in glass, but not all of it is windows.
 
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