Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
Oh, it's a *conversion*? Hadn't got that.
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Bogtrotter
Senior Member
Surely it is an improvement over what is there now. There's a few frumpy 60's and 70's era office blocks in that area that I wouldn't mind seeing converted.
Blixtein
Active Member
I think we'll be seeing a lot more of these types of 'conversions' and improvements ala the Davids store at Bloor and Bay.
simply Dan
Active Member
A nice improvement indeed! The little Louis Vuitton house next door will be staying I guess.
urbandreamer
recession proof
Maybe it's the W hotel?
Does anyone know for certain if it's gonna be a condo? It just might be a hotel....
I have always liked the existing highrise; infact all along that strip of Bloor are simple modernist office buildings that still look classy. Now there's several lowrise buildings (including Roots--or is that now gone?) that could go midrise. Then of course there's Holts--surely Galen Weston must be thinking that one day (within a decade?) his property will be worth more as a condo opportunity than as a Holt Renfrew?
Does anyone know for certain if it's gonna be a condo? It just might be a hotel....
I have always liked the existing highrise; infact all along that strip of Bloor are simple modernist office buildings that still look classy. Now there's several lowrise buildings (including Roots--or is that now gone?) that could go midrise. Then of course there's Holts--surely Galen Weston must be thinking that one day (within a decade?) his property will be worth more as a condo opportunity than as a Holt Renfrew?
UrbanD: check out the link, follow instructions, rinse, repeat: it's definitely a condo.
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
This is rapidly becoming the zombie-corpse-living-dead-rictus-ratcheted-up-facelift neighbourhood:
Two new floors on top of Harry Rosen; mock-Georgian apartment building facades to be incorporated into the Hariri Pontarini development on St Thomas; a Quadrangle piggyback thing on top of 130 Bloor; the Lyle facadectomy at One Bedford; a Windsor Arms Hotel that is an exact reconstruction of the one it replaced with a big faux tower behind; the faux deco Stern, and now a fashionable facegraft for this building, seeing it through the next ten years until stylistic sag sets in again.
Two new floors on top of Harry Rosen; mock-Georgian apartment building facades to be incorporated into the Hariri Pontarini development on St Thomas; a Quadrangle piggyback thing on top of 130 Bloor; the Lyle facadectomy at One Bedford; a Windsor Arms Hotel that is an exact reconstruction of the one it replaced with a big faux tower behind; the faux deco Stern, and now a fashionable facegraft for this building, seeing it through the next ten years until stylistic sag sets in again.
adma
Superstar
Don't forget the University Theatre across the street--and of course to the W, another 60s spec skyscraper totally stripped/rebuilt as a Y2K-era condo...
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
And the ROM is getting new pointy tits too.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Perhaps Libeskind should consider designing Madonna's next costume.
AoD
AoD
Hipster Duck
Senior Member
Toronto must be the only city in the world where a Louis Vuitton store is housed in the butchered remains of a working class townhouse.
simply Dan
Active Member
I wouldn't be too sure... I bet places like Sao Paulo, Mexico City or any number of get-rich-quick Asian cities have similar boutiques in strange buildings or locations. Archivist was recently talking about how one of the Prada boutiques in Tokyo is located next to a gas station or something ridiculous.
JasonParis
Moderator
I could be wrong, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Holt Renfrew was built in such a way that it could eventually have a tower built atop it.
simply Dan
Active Member
Indeed... it's only a matter of time.
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
would it be dubbed "Holter Top Condos by Gucci"?