MileHigh
Active Member
the designers should take advantage of the surrounding landscape and incorporate it into the design somehow... this building has as much appeal as the other rectangular buildings in the area
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You think THIS would get built across from Central Park??? Not a chance.
Beautiful design; meets the street well, has retail, blends in with the older apartment blocks, and I like the massing. I don't understand why the members on this forum bash EVERYTHING that gets proposed?
Central Park has PLENTY of trash/mediocre architecture around it, and I find New York's architecture in general to be outdated. Apparently, developers agree, because even NY's newest proposals don't follow the trends set by older buildings.
I think it looks pretty good...and this would be the beginning of the Central Park-ization of High Park (highrises surrounding its perimeter)..
The building meshes with the local white slab aesthetic of the 60s apartments to the north, white updating it.
And it does have commercial units facing Bloor according to the story above, (there appear to be umbrellas in the courtyard maybe for an eatery of some sort?)
Just a side note about the old houses which have been boarded up. A few years ago, I met a couple who used to live in one of the houses. As far as they could tell me, everyone was suddenly evicted - as the houses were not for sale and there was I believe one owner/or partner owners, they were all forced out. The places were perfectly fine and people had been living in the houses for years.
One woman decided to stay behind and refused to leave as she had nowhere else to go - she offered to pay more rent, but was told to get out asap. When this didn't happen, thugs supposedly ransacked her house - now I cannot confirm this, but the couple, who now live across from these houses on another street, mentioned that she was essentially forced out. Ultimately, their (developer/owner) intention was to sit on empty houses, board them up and call them abandoned. As things didn't get repaired stuff fell apart and well, we know the rest..This is most likely a shady deal, but wtf, why should I care..at least we are getting a new building right Ahmad!!!
Sadly, this process is very well established in Toronto so, I never expected more!