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One more for River street

111 RIVER ST Ward 13 - Tor & E.York District​
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​	Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment to facilitate the development of a 34-storey tower with 6-storey podium containing 309 residential dwelling units. Proposed Use ---​ # of Storeys 34​ # of Units ---​ Type​ Number​ Date Submitted​ Status​ Applications:​ OPA & Rezoning​ 19 231689 STE 13 OZ​ Oct 3, 2019​ Under Review​

 

[Marcanadian]

Lifetime and Wallman:

 

[Dr. Snoot]

I'd rather keep the houses.

 

[3Dementia]

Not a fan of the slab side but do like the "white tower" on a decent black podium. If folks want to save these grade D (Victorian?) homes, maybe we'll find another site ;-)

 

[AlbertC]

The street facing grade level needs some fine tuning. Feels rather cold and sterile right now.

Pretty substantial corridor of density on the horizon for River Street. With this, TAS DesignBuild's 7 Labatt, Broccolini's River & Fifth, TCHC buildings, and I believe 2 or 3 other projects in the pipeline.

 

[Towered]

Not Wallman's best. I feel like they've been slipping.

 

[AlbertC]

IMO, Wallman's best work in Toronto is Lumiere on Bay, a condo from earlier on in the boom.

Several of his more recent ones have been a miss though like 365 Church, Minto30Roe, and Beacon Condos. CityLights on Broadway looks like it's headed in that direction too. While Ten York gets an alright/average rating from me.

The developers in play are a factor of course. Although, Menkes did have a part in Lumiere which was nice but went on to build disasters like 365 Church later.

 

[interchange42]

My favourite Wallman is Tableau, and here's hoping that Kingsway By The River—also for Urban Capital and designed in the same style—is equally well executed.

Tableau got Wallman going on the staggered brick pattern that Kingsway by the River perpetuates. Between them, Beacon's variation was less successful when the frames were applied too meekly… but now we have another take on the stagger, culminating in the zippered balconies down the middle of the east side. That's kinda cool. Why not do that on the west side too? It looks like a different building entirely, and would benefit from more cohesion with the stronger graphic design on the east side.

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[Midtown Urbanist]

I think it will stand out (hopefully positively) at this location.

 

[AlbertC]

My favourite Wallman is Tableau, and here's hoping that Kingsway By The River—also for Urban Capital and designed in the same style—is equally well executed.

Tableau got Wallman going on the staggered brick pattern that Kingsway by the River perpetuates. Between them, Beacon's variation was less successful when the frames were applied too meekly… but now we have another take on the stagger, culminating in the zippered balconies down the middle of the east side. That's kinda cool. Why not do that on the west side too? It looks like a different building entirely, and would benefit from more cohesion with the stronger graphic design on the east side.

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True about Tableau. For some reason that had slipped my mind. It would likely even be among my Top 10 new buildings from the past decade.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Let's not forget that they also inflicted 300 Front on us as well...

 

[interchange42]

Let's not forget that they also inflicted 300 Front on us as well...

Let's not forget that if Tridel had built 300 Front as it had been rendered, then it would not have turned out as a million mullion mess. The point is that Wallman is capable of great looking buildings, and that any architect can be brought low by a developer that value engineers something to death. I seem to remember a couple of recent aA stinkers… so am I supposed to go around mentioning how Alter is all their fault? Because that's what you're implying. aA cannot be counted on because of something they've recently inflicted on us…

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[ProjectEnd]

The common negative theme here seems to be Tridel more than anything...

 

[maestro]

Architects Alliance has some recent stinkers. Wallman started producing them not long after parting ways with aA. I've always wonder if that was the reasoning behind the split.

 

[ProjectEnd]

The original aA was a firm of 'big personalities'. That works in some ways, not so much in others.