ceaz40
Active Member
Prince Charles said it best....”monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend”. the Dominion Bldg is a grand old lady....such a travesty if this gets plunked on top.
It's telling when even the renders are done in a gloomy, post-apocalyptic vibe. I was really hoping this one was dead.The docs were updated a year ago, but missed on here. Still a 49 & 45-storey project. Not much change to project statistics though I believe there may have been a reduction in underground parking to just three levels.
Updated rendering:
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Call me crazy, but I think this works. The towers are elegant, and the design is calm enough so as not to compete with the base building. There are only a few good ways to rise contemporary above heritage, and this is one of them that I think looks to be executed fairly well. Obviously it will need to be well detailed for this to work, but I'm there on the concept.
408 residential rental units and 253 hotel units, to be precise.The total unit count change from 836 units to 661 units. Finally, the total parking count was reduced from 195 parking to 184 parking. The rendering was taken from the architectural plan via site Plan approval.
I sorta agree. It's the best case scenario if you had to shove two towers on-site, which I would rather not do, but oh well.Call me crazy, but I think this works. The towers are elegant, and the design is calm enough so as not to compete with the base building. There are only a few good ways to rise contemporary above heritage, and this is one of them that I think looks to be executed fairly well. Obviously it will need to be well detailed for this to work, but I'm there on the concept.
Front Street @ Union is really pretty much like a woonerf, if you ignore the jersey barriers :->Showing the front of Union as a woonerf calls into question the rest of the rendering.