... and it'll be so much nicer than the construction site to look at next time I'm sipping a martini in the lobby bar of the Pantages.
 
The building is OK. It is funny to think however that the facade panels used here and elsewhere so similarly will date these projects. People a decade or so from now (maybe on a forum similar to this) will bemoan this era as we do previous building booms in the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
 
There is good and bad design in all eras, though. A Mies-designed tower isn't the same, qualitatively speaking, as a poor imitation of a Mies tower designed by another architect, regardless of the similarity in materials used and the fact that they were both built about the same time. The ups and downs of the superficial, groan-inducing fashionable/unfashionable cycle aren't the best indicator of aesthetic value in buildings.
 
Application: Building Additions/Alterations Status: Not Started

Location: 209 VICTORIA ST
TORONTO ON M5B 1T8

Ward 27: Toronto Centre-Rosedale

Application#: 09 190866 BLD 00 BA Accepted Date: Nov 24, 2009

Project: Hospital Other(BA)

Description: Permit for pedistrian bridge to connect 209 Victoria with 30 Bond St. Bridge to Cross Shuter Street - See 08 173116 STE 27 SA for Site Plan review, and 08 173110 ZPR for PPR. Please see 07 114980 BLD for building permit for new Hospital wing.
 
It does have a similarity to a number of projects going up today. I don't have a camera so I can't post anything. Can someone else do so?
 
Dec 11

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This project fills in that once-ugly corner very nicely and is a wonderful addition to the area... very solid streetwall. The blank grey north-facing wall is a bit oppressive, though...
 
Thank God!

I think we were all worried they had just skipped out on that part of the design. Much better now :)
 
I too was worried about the glass fins on the Victoria side and thank goodness they have arrived (they are a great feature on what would otherwise be a dull box).
 
The fins make it look like an International style building; a mini Lever House or Inland Steel building. That said, they should have stuck with a consistent pattern around the facade of the entire building rather than have that somewhat awkward contrast at the corner.
 
Though it is "only" an application to the Committee on Adjustment, it is perhaps interesting to see that St Mike's has plans to build a 17 floor extension on top of their parking lot and receiving dock at the NE corner of Queen and Victoria.

30 BOND ST
File Number: A0382/10TEY Zoning QT6.0 (PPR)
Owner(s): ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL[ Ward: Toronto Centre-Rosedale (27)
Agent: CYNTHIA MACDOUGALL
McCarthy Tetrault
Property Address: 30 BOND ST Community:
Legal Description: PL 22A LTS 2-10 + LTS 48-56 EXEMPT PER SEC.3(1)6 OF THE ASSM'T ACT
R.S.O.(90) C.A.31
PURPOSE OF THE APPLICATION:
To construct a 17-storey addition to St Micheal Hospital (northwest corner of Queen Street East and Victoria
Street).
REQUESTED VARIANCE(S) TO THE ZONING BY-LAW:
1. Section 1(2), By-Law 1999-68
The maximum permitted non-residential gross floor area is 102 000.0 m².
In this case, the non-residential gross floor area will be 121 625.0 m2.
2. Section 1(6), By-law 1999-68
One additional loading space, having dimensions of 18.3 m X 4.0 m is required to be provided.
In this case, no additional loading space will be provided.
3. Section 2, By-law 1999-68
Additions to the building may be constructed in not more than two phases within the areas shown
outlined with heavy lines on Plan 3 attached to the By-law.
The subject addition is not one of the phases shown on Plan 3 of By-law, 1999-68.
4. Section 3(1)(ii), By-law1999-68
Upon completion of Phase 1, not less than 35 parking spaces shall be provied and maintained on the lot.
In this case, 35 spaces will not be provided on the lot.
5. Section 3(1)(iv), By-law 1999-68
Upon completion of Phase 1, not less than 42 parking sapces shall be provided and maintained within
30 m of the lot.
In this case, the 42 off-site parking spaces to be provided on the properties at 26 Shuter Street and 209
Victoria Street are not permitted. as they are located further than 30 m from the lot.
6. Section 3(2), By-law 1999-68
Upon completion of Phase 2, landscaped courtyard space whall be provided in the locations indicated
on Plan 4 attached to and forming part of the By-alw.
In this case two of the areas idenitified as “landscaped courtyard space”, on Plan 4, will be occupied by
the addition and relocated medical gas tanks.
7. Section 4(2)(a), By-law 438-86
The maximum permitted building height is 46.0 m .
The building including the addition will have a height of 80.6 m.
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8. Section 4(5)(b), By-law 438-86
A minimum of 79 additional on-site parking spaces are required to be provided for the addition.
In this case, no additional parking spaces will be provided..
 
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Thank goodness there is some movement on that finally. That's one of the ugliest corners in all of downtown.

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