Coucher du Soleil: from a couple evenings ago, the sun may not be setting behind Eau, but they're the most prominent towers here of course.

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Etobicoke's Kingsway College secures site for future high school

NEWS 06:00 AM TORONTO.COM

Kingsway College School has secured a site for its senior school, which will open in September 2021.

Kingsway College School (KCS) is a pre-kindergarten to Grade 8 coed private independent school founded in 1989. Its senior school, which will offer grades 9 through 12, will be located at 2183 Lake Shore Blvd. W. near Park Lawn Road, taking up the entire second and third floors of commercial space at Empire Eau de Soleil condominium.

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Kingsway College School’s future senior school space will have a dedicated entrance on Lake Shore and includes access to a landscaped rooftop terrace. It sits next to Humber Bay Park East on the Etobicoke lakefront with access to fields, wetlands, a butterfly habitat, nature and bike trails.

Its website is up and running at www.kcs.on.ca/senior-school
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Etobicoke's Kingsway College secures site for future high school

Kingsway College School has secured a site for its Senior School, which will open in September 2021.
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Edward Skira said:
The contrast between white and the orange/rust colour should have been more pronounced.
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agreed. I think an easy solve would have been to have the orange guards be the same height as the white ones, so the dark streak would read more as orange from a distance.
 
Since I'm in skyscraper mode (no deep dive on execution), I'd give this a full pass. Probably should have built something like this at Daniels waterfront. Not rocket science-swoops (sails) near the water. Rest of the world does it... no harm in doing same.
 
jje1000 said:
Still think that the slanted lines are still awkward in the way they transition between the tower and podium, but the rest is good enough.
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I know what you mean, but due to the gradually shrinking floor plate putting the swoosh on a slant, it is simply geometrically impossible to have a smooth swoosh transition between the podium and the rest of the towers. The swoosh looks as you would expect when viewed from afar and straight on. But when viewed at an angle and close to the base, the jankyness is exaggerated. There's nothing that could have been done about that though.
 
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By the way, I thought I'd share what I witnessed this morning. As I was going by the building, there were two workers on the balcony very loudly discussing how to fill in this particular gap:
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Some choice words were used. This only reinforced my previous suspicions that they are having a lot of issues with installing balcony railings here. It seems like balcony architecture was very expensive for this particular project.
 
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