Architourist
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Hey there,
Well, you forumers have helped me before. If you remember, we all contributed to a column I wrote about a year (or more) ago called "Fantasy Conversions", which was about unrealistic buildings or structures that would make for cool fantasy living spaces (I think my editor is still laughing about life in the KFC bucket beside the Gardiner!).
Anyhow, I was wondering if you'd all like to contribute again? Of course I'll give full credit for your ideas.
This time, I'd like to focus on realistic conversions. Buildings that are abandoned, under-used or just plain ripe for development into condominiums or mixed-use buildings (residential/commercial). They can be small, one-storey places or giant complexes, I don't care. As long as a developer could look at it and say, "Yes, that's a realistic possibility."
For instance, about a month ago I pulled into Saulter St. (Broadview and Queen E. area) to park so I could visit a shop along Queen. Nice little residential street with typical Toronto "Bay 'n' Gable" houses on one side but, right across the street is this massive, low-rise, U-shaped industrial building that I could totally envision as a great loft building with a courtyard/entrance where the open part of the 'U' is...maybe even with some sort of partial shelter over it to create a micro-climate and to shelter residents when it's raining...you get the idea.
So, got anything like that for me? I'd need to know where it is and what your vision for it would be.
Who knows, maybe there's a developer out there who'd take our ideas seriously!
Thanking you all in advance,
Dave LeBlanc
(Globe and Mail)
Well, you forumers have helped me before. If you remember, we all contributed to a column I wrote about a year (or more) ago called "Fantasy Conversions", which was about unrealistic buildings or structures that would make for cool fantasy living spaces (I think my editor is still laughing about life in the KFC bucket beside the Gardiner!).
Anyhow, I was wondering if you'd all like to contribute again? Of course I'll give full credit for your ideas.
This time, I'd like to focus on realistic conversions. Buildings that are abandoned, under-used or just plain ripe for development into condominiums or mixed-use buildings (residential/commercial). They can be small, one-storey places or giant complexes, I don't care. As long as a developer could look at it and say, "Yes, that's a realistic possibility."
For instance, about a month ago I pulled into Saulter St. (Broadview and Queen E. area) to park so I could visit a shop along Queen. Nice little residential street with typical Toronto "Bay 'n' Gable" houses on one side but, right across the street is this massive, low-rise, U-shaped industrial building that I could totally envision as a great loft building with a courtyard/entrance where the open part of the 'U' is...maybe even with some sort of partial shelter over it to create a micro-climate and to shelter residents when it's raining...you get the idea.
So, got anything like that for me? I'd need to know where it is and what your vision for it would be.
Who knows, maybe there's a developer out there who'd take our ideas seriously!
Thanking you all in advance,
Dave LeBlanc
(Globe and Mail)