[investican]

I was driving along Yonge St today with my buddy and we saw the advertisement for this building--I didn't see it anywhere on the site so far.

Its a Boutique type Condo right on Yonge st--couldn't find the toronto council agenda for it.

http://www.designguildproperties.com/DG/

and you can see an article: http://designguildproperties.com/DG/pdf/DesignGuildDavf1c9.pdf

and

http://yorkvilleluxuryrealestate.com/?p=1464

 

[adma]

Treacle. But having seen a similar standalone on Mount Pleasant nr Eg, I can't say that a street lined with such prefab Hausmannisms would be *that* horrible. Corny, perhaps, but...

 

[Evan]

I like this! Not everything has to be a clewes box.

 

[Joe]

Very nice.

Buildings like this would be great along Bloor and Danforth to keep the scale of the streets similar but allow for some densification along the subway.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Faux-historicist crap.

Pepper79ville anyone?

 

[newuser2k9]

Nice infill. Better having some ugly streetwall vs. no streetwall.

 

[junctionist]

I'm not looking forward to more of these cheap recreations of older buildings in Europe and the United States. It does nothing to build up design up a contemporary design culture of which Canadians can take pride in.

 

[J0n0001]

I think this building will be amazing for the area, its a great example of infill that Yonge street needs

 

[newuser2k9]

I'm not looking forward to more of these cheap recreations of older buildings in Europe and the United States. It does nothing to build up design up a contemporary design culture of which Canadians can take pride in.

Honestly, this stretch of Yonge beginning at the LCBO going to the Art Shoppe has never had anything contemporary or cosmopolitan about it. Sadly, a building like this is such a huge step up from what was there before it is still very much appreciated.

 

[adHominem]

Schlocky.

 

[maestro]

This one has been around for a long while.

 

[SunriseChampion]

Are you sure that's not a render for a development in Vaughan? Could have fooled me.

It looks like Typical York Region McMansion: Multiple Unit Edition.

 

[adma]

Honestly, this stretch of Yonge beginning at the LCBO going to the Art Shoppe has never had anything contemporary or cosmopolitan about it. Sadly, a building like this is such a huge step up from what was there before it is still very much appreciated.

I dunno--some of those interwar taxpayers are fairly urbane, if not necessarily "contemporary or cosmopolitan".

Site-specificity aside, aside from being "urban intensification" at all, it's a step sideways or maybe the mildest kind of step up at best IMO. And when it comes to "contemporary and cosmopolitan", there's an aesthetic argument that it's more a parvenu step down...

 

[Solaris]

although it's faux Second Empire architecture ... but I don't mind the design at all, I like the architectural variety it offers, not everything has to be glass box to be good looking ~

 

[Edward]

Design Guild huh? They need another name for this.