rbt
Senior Member
Every unit includes a climbing wall and a couple of net levels.
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Every unit includes a climbing wall and a couple of net levels.
3Dementia
Senior Member
111.5 metres?!?
Damn you city planning and your dated height phobias...
Damn you city planning and your dated height phobias...
GenerationLee
Senior Member
That's tall enough...heck too tall for where it is. It should transition to the SFH neighbourhood...but clearly they're using the massive redevelopment nearby to justify their project's height
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Resubmission from last week. They've really calmed this one down, way better now.
Northern Light
Superstar
Podium is ok'ish......don't like the way the retail/grade works in this, same complaint as always, it feels indistinct and underwhelming..............I also dislike the glass facade at the corner. It's not the fact that it's glass that's the problem, it's how they've used it/shaped it etc.
The tower remains..........uh......a disappointment.
allengeorge
Senior Member
Out of curiosity, why does the city mandate “tower on podium”? What’s wrong with the tower coming down to ground level if the ground level is fine-grained and distinguished from the above?
ADRM
Senior Member
A very good question to which the City does not have a good answer; this is one of my most consistently held urban design beefs with the City's current UD regime.
Undead
Senior Member
Northern Light
Superstar
There are a few reasons..........
I wonder what this site would have to say, LOL: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/why-are-condo-podiums-bad.17716/
I think Grey's comment is good: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/why-are-condo-podiums-bad.17716/post-539701
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Apart from that though, access to sunlight/sky has a lot to do with it.
The higher you build a street wall, the less sun/sky you get. Toronto is arguably extreme in times, at wanting set backs as soon as the 2nd/3rd floor; however, if you start getting near tower height ( street wall over 12 floors) on a typical street, you'll definitely find yourself in shade/shadow much of the year.
This site from Vancouver has a good discussion the Tower/Podium model, vs the Paris Model (build to lot line, straight-up, but typically maxing out at 8 floors).
Tower & podium or ‘Paris model’
There have been comments and comparisons made between the tower and podium development seen in parts of Vancouver’s downtown and the ‘Paris model’. Putting density over much of a …
cityhallwatch.wordpress.com
From said article/site:
The tower and podium concept is supposed to consist of a podium of a couple of floors, with a slimmer tower that is setback, in order to provide some light penetration and access to sky
Another article here looking at wind conditions at street level:
Figure 6: The tower-on-podium massing often results in reasonable...
Download scientific diagram | The tower-on-podium massing often results in reasonable conditions at ground level, but the podium may not be useable. from publication: Design Features to Change and/or Ameliorate Pedestrian Wind Conditions | A windy environment around the base of a building...
www.researchgate.net
From the Town of Milton's Tall Building Design Guidelines:
isaidso
Senior Member
Nothing wrong with this design but it's really just more boring filler. We have 100s of equally mind numbing condo towers in this city. 'It's prozac in city form', as the The Guardian put it.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
I'd prefer calm, well-detailed buildings over something that tries and misses at doing architectural backflips. At the end of the day, it's just housing. Curious what The Guardian was referring to in the article you cite above.
AlbertC
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111 to 125 River St - Zoning Amendment and Rental Housing Demolition Applications - Final Report
This item will be considered by Toronto and East York Community Council on May 19, 2021. It will be considered by City Council on June 8, 2021, subject to the actions of the Toronto and East York Community Council.
This item will be considered by Toronto and East York Community Council on May 19, 2021. It will be considered by City Council on June 8, 2021, subject to the actions of the Toronto and East York Community Council.
AlbertC
Superstar
Article on uncovering the message behind the ghost sign of the house at the southern end of the block:
Sleuthing a ghost sign on River Street - Spacing Toronto
Ghost signs: The slowly fading hand-painted advertisements that cling to the sides of older buildings, redundantly promoting companies, products and services that disappeared long ago. I’ve been interested in them since I was a kid, because they trigger my curiosity about what was here before my...
spacing.ca
bilked
Senior Member
Vacant and all fenced off:
