tstormers
Senior Member
Not gonna lie, I kinda like it there...
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Towered
Superstar
Toronto needs its Haussmann.
cd concept
Senior Member
Nestled between all those condos around it and having a birds eye view of the cemetery and the Yonge st corridor etc. Make it a sure sale in my book! Thanks Koops for your visual imput!
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Again, I don't disagree with you philosophically, but please try and run the numbers on a 79 storey tower on a 59x31m site with one street frontage. Just give it a go.
UrbanAffair
Senior Member
^exactly this. Also, like you know, a small side street, with no corner. It's done in NYC, but with 50 units in 1400 ft tall skinny things. We all know how this would end up in Toronto, 1000 units, and an ingress egress mess.
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
Realism aside, I kind of wish it was actually 79-storeys just to drive down the absurdity of constraining all new housing supply into a tiny sliver of land when we have a sea of single-detached neighbourhoods as far as the eye can see.
Because that is exactly what is happening to Yonge & Eglinton and Davisville Village. I'm not convinced at all that what is being built in those two areas is close to ideal city building. It sure is dense though.
Because that is exactly what is happening to Yonge & Eglinton and Davisville Village. I'm not convinced at all that what is being built in those two areas is close to ideal city building. It sure is dense though.
Koops65
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RonThom
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Lobbyist registry has been amended:
Also I do not see a particularly special value to the existing Girl Guides building. Walked by recently. It’s definitely competent but I just don’t see any special heritage value unless we are fetishizing something just because it looks kind of like some work by a famous guy who never came to Toronto
From that blog post:
And here are pictures of those two “precedents” in order:
I see some echoes in the materials and details but the form is completely different. I don’t know enough about Aalto to understand whether it’s the materials, details, form, or some combination thereof that made his work significant.
Also I do not see a particularly special value to the existing Girl Guides building. Walked by recently. It’s definitely competent but I just don’t see any special heritage value unless we are fetishizing something just because it looks kind of like some work by a famous guy who never came to Toronto
From that blog post:
And here are pictures of those two “precedents” in order:
I see some echoes in the materials and details but the form is completely different. I don’t know enough about Aalto to understand whether it’s the materials, details, form, or some combination thereof that made his work significant.
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cd concept
Senior Member
Thank Koops for the flyby! For showing how it might look like having an 800 plus foot skyscraper in the Davisville area. It might happen someday being close to a subway stop! PS keep this flyby for references don't listen to hecklers!
Koops65
Senior Member
Time to get back to reality...
ferusian
Active Member
Northern Light
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Ciarlandini
Active Member
Definitely not a fan of the westernmost building closest to Yonge, and the east building's balconies are a little ambitious when considering the execution of other smaller hariri pontarini buildings...
ushahid
Senior Member
it has alot of potential to end up looking like this, but i know HPA wont let that happen.
This proposal only covers one building. The westernmost building you refer to is an adjacent proposal, while the east building already exists.
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