Sign on the fence: 'Design by Johnson Chou'. I do not know if Johnson's role is interior designer for the project, or includes overall architectural responsibility.
 
Cemetary?

isn't the church the cemetary for hundreds of unknown victims to some horrible outbreak in the 1800's? I heard Bruce Bell talking about this on CP24 during Halloween. If so, I wonder how prospective buyers would feel about buying a condo right next to a mass grave? Can anyone confirm this or am I thinking of a different church?
 
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isn't the church the cemetary for hundreds of unknown victims to some horrible outbreak in the 1800's? I heard Bruce Bell talking about this on CP24 during Halloween. If so, I wonder how prospective buyers would feel about buying a condo right next to a mass grave? Can anyone confirm this or am I thinking of a different church?
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Yes, parts of the St James' Park was used as a burial ground (primarily from the cholera epidemics of 1830-35) but there are many other condos overlooking it and I have never herad that scared off potential purchasers. In fact I think most (all?) the bodies that were buried there were removed to the 'new' St James graveyard at Parliament and Wellesley and in any case were on the east side of the park, nearer to Vu! (There is an interesting piece on St James Park in Torontoist at http://torontoist.com/2011/11/the-battles-at-st-james/ )
 
I don't know if anyone has posted this yet: http://www.toronto.ca/planning/urbdesign/pdf/st_lawr_udg_full.pdf. It's the city's urban design guidelines for the area. It's an interesting read.

The heights of buildings are supposed to step down from high-rise at Yonge to mid-rise by Church. One of the biggest sticking points with height will probably be shadows hitting the front of St. James. If they can position the tower far enough away from the intersection to avoid major shadowing, they'll probably get a lot more height.
 
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For those of you who have seen Detroit Rock City, the movie about kids trying to go see the band Kiss, the wall being obscured by the sales centre is significant. The door into the strip joint they try to get into was built on this wall. Fake door. They filmed a lot of the movie in this area.
 
Breaking news, it's by aA and aAbsolutely stunning! Thx to https://twitter.com/#!/MYoungTO for breaking it just now on twitter, the renderings are here!

http://www.cdcapitalpartners.com/portfolio.html#

Freed is partnering with CD Capital Partners.

Officially launched in Spring 2012, Sixty Colborne is a residential condominium project comprising approximately 300 condominium units ranging from 400 – 1,400 square feet with 10,000 square feet of retail space at ground level. It is designed by renowned architect, Peter Clewes with interiors by Johnson Chou
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Website coming will be http://www.sixtycolborne.com/
 
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Smells like an accidental leak (past-tense "launched" in Spring 2012?). Better save those renderings, because they may go down the memory hole shortly.

Immediate reaction is that the design looks like a holiday sampler box of all the design tropes that have cropped up in the last dozen Clewes buildings. Really like the podium, less keen on the tower.
 
interesting .... i find what looks like 3 different distinct elements abit 'jarring' ... lower podium, upper podium, then tower with multi-coloured and possibly skewed balconies too much.

i do like the podium bridge !
 
Thanks UD, that just made my day! :)

The podium looks sharp and well planned. Really neat to see the underpass tunnel running through the podium. The tower looks alright, will need larger renderings to really gather a judgement on it. I count around 30 storeys, which I think is pretty fair for the location. Promising preview, looking forward to more details.
 
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