Northern Light
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New to the AIC this application to repurpose the site of an existing 20s office tower, the former 'Shell Oil Building', originally completed in 1958, though with a multi-storey add-on in 1966.
This site is the north-east corner of University and Edward, immediately north of 'The United Building' project that we're following here at UT.
app.toronto.ca
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* Docs are Up *
(renders below; first on up is the under construction United Building on the right side of the image, this proposal on the left)
Note in respect of the appearance of the existing building, that at first blush, there appears to be facade retention. On somewhat closer inspection, only for the height of the original 1958 building, not the '66 add-on.....BUT
On closest inspection, not quite that either. These are reconstructed elevations reusing some of the original cladding:
From the Planning Report:
* Before anyone asks, this somehow, amazingly skirts any of the SickKids Helicopter flight path (its to the south)
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I may need a coffee in the morning to look over the landscape plan again. The render shows trees on the University frontage, but I don't see any in the actual plans, which seems odd.
No vegetation at all seems to be proposed for the Edward frontage.
That's unattractive. I'll add, Edward should be narrowed here, its sized to support the old bus terminal operation which no longer exists.
This site is the north-east corner of University and Edward, immediately north of 'The United Building' project that we're following here at UT.
Application Details
app.toronto.ca
***
* Docs are Up *
(renders below; first on up is the under construction United Building on the right side of the image, this proposal on the left)
Note in respect of the appearance of the existing building, that at first blush, there appears to be facade retention. On somewhat closer inspection, only for the height of the original 1958 building, not the '66 add-on.....BUT
On closest inspection, not quite that either. These are reconstructed elevations reusing some of the original cladding:
From the Planning Report:
* Before anyone asks, this somehow, amazingly skirts any of the SickKids Helicopter flight path (its to the south)
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I may need a coffee in the morning to look over the landscape plan again. The render shows trees on the University frontage, but I don't see any in the actual plans, which seems odd.
No vegetation at all seems to be proposed for the Edward frontage.
That's unattractive. I'll add, Edward should be narrowed here, its sized to support the old bus terminal operation which no longer exists.
for this superficial cladding comment... I'll also suggest that BDPQ save this design for another client and another site (as long as we get a better look at it first ;-).