alklay
Senior Member
No need. I think he self-destructed already (with his statement). 
b13
New Member
I'm glad more residents are moving into the downtown core, this will only help liven up the core when most of workers go home and on weekends. Also with more resients come with more services such as more retail which will also help bring people to the core after business hours!
Canuck
Active Member
Heretic!
simply Dan
Active Member
This really is great news - very encouraging. The more people living in the real core of the city, the better!
Waterloo_Guy
Active Member
This is one of the best projects porposed in a long time. If I had the money...
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
I was thinking the same thing, a great building for a conversion. This would be such a cool place to have a pad in. I'm green with envy.
JasonParis
Moderator
I'd love to live here myself. Maybe one day I will!
Awesome news.
Awesome news.
adma
Superstar
The ceilings aren't terribly "nice high"; it's not a Class A office building, after all...
syn
Senior Member
Great news. I wonder what the prices will be like.
unimaginative2
Senior Member
Really? Surely they're at least close to 10 feet.
SP!RE
°°°°°°
After endless NEW condo projects, an old-building redevelopment into condos strikes me as a very sexy concept for Toronto.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Ceiling heights change with fashion - "lofts" for the Wallpaper crowd, few of whom are artists requiring big open spaces to set up large canvases or create huge sculptures in, being but one example. Victorian houses often had higher ceilings than Modernist homes.
Zephyr
Active Member
All for preservation if the building deserves it. This building should stay around awhile. Take a look at the mini-history about the Concourse(1), and at the bottom of it you can link to a now dated "Demolition" article (2) with a brief discussion of a Concourse look-alike - the latter all very disgusting.
Not a "skyline deco," so says the mini-history article - but a deco of merit.
(1) Direct link to Mini-History [with link to (2)] http://www.omnitecturalforum.com/conc/conchistory.html
(2) Direct link to dated Demolition section only http://www.omnitecturalforum.com/conc/concdemolition.html
Not a "skyline deco," so says the mini-history article - but a deco of merit.
(1) Direct link to Mini-History [with link to (2)] http://www.omnitecturalforum.com/conc/conchistory.html
(2) Direct link to dated Demolition section only http://www.omnitecturalforum.com/conc/concdemolition.html
Mongo
Senior Member
valantino posted this at SSC:
A rough height calculation: 23x4m (office) + 25x3m (residential) + 15m (roof, podium) = 182m (597 ft), very close to the previous listed height of 595 ft.
That 400,000 SF has to be for the office component only -- a building that size would be close to 1,000,000 SF.
Apparently there is a city document with the new information, but I don't have the link.
Bill
A rough height calculation: 23x4m (office) + 25x3m (residential) + 15m (roof, podium) = 182m (597 ft), very close to the previous listed height of 595 ft.
That 400,000 SF has to be for the office component only -- a building that size would be close to 1,000,000 SF.
Apparently there is a city document with the new information, but I don't have the link.
Bill
caltrane74
Senior Member
The Concourse Proposal was only 40 floors and 600 feet. This may be about the same. (albiet with 48 floors mixed use)