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- Thread starter Edward Skira
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mdsmith
New Member
An EXCELLENT and VERY appropriate design for this neighborhood. Retail podium, stepback after 4th level, materials. Preservation of the historic building on the site. We need more of these. Towers do little for the livelihood of our cities if they don't relate to the streets, like this building.
Red October
Senior Member
The red brick podium and stepped design above it is fantastic planning to go with this neighbourhood..
From the street below it would fit right into the streetscape that's already there.
From the street below it would fit right into the streetscape that's already there.
Edward
Senior Member
I just hope the cladding for the upper levels doesn't come across as cheap looking.
Redroom Studios
Senior Member
this is really going to liven up this corner compared to what had been there. an absolutely appropriate and well considered design. And we shouldnt have to wait terribly long for it to be completed with the mid-rise floor count.
Traynor
Senior Member
Love it. Personally I wouldn't have minded if they had also put a point tower on the southern end of this at The Esplanade. Something in the 35 floor range, to help push our skyline eastward.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
i agree with extending the skyline eastward, but not on this corner. This questionably the most historic area in the city, and if anywhere should stay lowrise, it's here.
detroitbootybass
Active Member
I like it!
Traynor
Senior Member
I clearly said that the point tower should go down at the Esplanade end of this complex. Not at this corner. I am fine with how this meets Front Street.
I was only saying that considering how out of control the Toronto real estate boom is, I was kind of surprised they didn't try for more density here. London, Backstage, L-Tower are all a stones throw away.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
St. Lawrence Market really gets it right, this is further proof.
neubilder
Banned
"While heritage worthy, it was deemed too structurally deficient to retain"
What a crock.
What a crock.
neubilder
Banned
What's with all the yes-men and yes-women here? This is a mediocre design at best (that corner treatment is tacky as hell) and is a thorn in the side of one of the last contiguous stretches of historic buildings in the city. Are you people all investors in this project or what?!
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Toronto1
Guest
Agreed. But, hey, this is the paid advertising section of Urban Toronto, so don't expect any truth in their advertising. Instead, expect lots of virtual tours espousing the positives of newly completed condos by writers moonlighting as realtors.
oreoshack
Active Member
whoah, controversy
neubilder
Banned
Wow. That would explain the bad writing too.
This puts a whole new slant on this forum. Half the gabage that gets said here is hard enough to take, but knowing that it's laden with thinly veiled advertising makes it almost pointless.
I think it would be in far better taste for the promos to be revealed as such and not disguised.
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