[maestro]

I prefer Toronto's waterfront over Chicagos. It has better balance. Grant Park is too big and other parts are hemmed in by Lake Shore Drive. Ours doesn't compare to theirs. I don't have any issue with towers on the Mirabella site either. It's on the north side of Lake Shore Boulevard right up against the Gardiner. It'll act as a buffer against the raised Gardiner and any shadows will be cast on the Gardiner. I just don't see a park here having a lot of traffic or any traffic at all with a much nicer linear park along the lake.

The condos in Humber Bay create a buffer between the lake and the Gardiner. The loss of potential green space was made up by creating new space through lake filling. IIRC, this vision dates from the late 80s and early 90s. The condo market went bust before they could really get building on them.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Also these condos give population to increase utilization of those parks. Just wish the architecture wasn't as scary.

 

[Amare]

Also these condos give population to increase utilization of those parks. Just wish the architecture wasn't as scary.

The utilization rate would probably be the same if you swapped all the condos along the waterfront, over to the Mondelez lands and transformed the south side of Lake Shore as park land. That alone, plus all the condos on Park Lawn and along this stretch of Lake Shore would be enough to keep Humber Bay Park very busy.

I couldnt agree more on the architecture point and while this project wont help much with that aspect, so from the renderings we have so far it looks better than half the garbage that has been built at HBS.

 

[interchange42]

Here's the onsite sales office under construction some days ago:

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[cd concept]

Love to see these buildings get built.

 

[Jasonzed]

 

[Branden Simon]

Last Saturday, I update progress of Temporary Sales Center photo by iPhone

 

[PMT]

New docs posted May 3, including renderings I haven't seen posted here:

 

[Amare]

These towers look pretty similar to those Tridel towers at Kipling station (sans Parc Nuvo) so if they turn out to anything like them, this proposal wont be half bad. However it looks like this has much more potential than those Tridel towers depending on the materials used. The one thing I will say is that this development will look much better then the surrounding garbage that has already been put up on Lake Shore and the Queensway, even though that's not saying much.

 

[innsertnamehere]

.. nah, it won't. The things are giant hulking masses of poorly articulated crap that do nothing to animate the street and the area.

 

[WiddleBittyKitty]

Coming out of semi-retirement to cough up a hairball…

Exactly: these things are way too bulky and the podium is similarly hulking. The design is fidgety historicist garbage that some people think is architecture just because it has frames here and there, and curved balconies in this spot, and is wedding-caked a bit at the top. Bleh!

PS - Diamante have out up some pretty interesting buildings in this city, like that one at the top of Bay on Davenport (name?). Why are they copping out so badly with trashy architecture here where I'll have to drive by it on a regular basis?

 

[Marcanadian]

 

[Corey TK]

Will this have retail at grade level? Sorry if this has been answered before

 

[innsertnamehere]

Will this have retail at grade level? Sorry if this has been answered before

It will have a retail space on the southwest corner of the building - but not any significant amount and the majority of the ground floor is just residential amenity and lobby spaces.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

It will have a retail space on the southwest corner of the building - but not any significant amount and the majority of the ground floor is just residential amenity and lobby spaces.

You do have to wonder how viable retail for that stretch will be in any event.

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