[ProjectEnd]

I'm with Ed. I see nothing 'overwhelming' - quite the opposite actually. What's the point in an arbitrary 6ft setback? What would go there? For what would it be used?

 

[interchange42]

There's a lot of green space in the surrounding area that residents will be able to take good advantage of. Why waste any on a couple of metres' worth of space that they just have to pay to fertilize, mow, and water without getting any substantial benefit. Our suburbs are quite low density, and I'm glad that our new planning regime looks to use space more intelligently than we used to.

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[Armour]

http://www.greenwin.ca/properties/the-towns-on-the-ravine

 

[Armour]

New rendering from: http://theravine.ca

 

[Solaris]

Looks like here is another new acute angle rendering for Phase 1 of The Ravine:

http://theravine.ca/gallery.php

 

[James]

Looks like here is another new acute angle rendering for Phase 1 of The Ravine:

http://theravine.ca/gallery.php

That angle definitely makes the building look much more dramatic than the standard perspective rendering:

 

[interchange42]

The perspective in the computer rendering is less realistic than the one in the aerial watercolour. I'd rather see renderings which suggest a vanishing point in the distance; the completely rectilinear ones just look grotesque to me at the distant end.

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[Armour]

Some interior photos of one of the towns units here: https://www.padmapper.com/search/apartments/Ontario/toronto/247207218/

I was walking around these today (35-53 Valley Woods Rd: http://www.greenwin.ca/apartments-for-rent/valleywood-townhomes). It's a shame they will be demolished. They are actually quite nice and spacious. They also meander nicely along the crest of the ravine. Some of these could probably be spared as they are merely being replaced by park land.

 

[Automation Gallery]

1213 YORK MILLS RD
Ward 34 - North York District

2 apartment buildings 27 and storeys containng 446 dwelling units.
Proposed Use --- # of Storeys --- # of Units ---
Applications:
Type Number Date Submitted Status
Site Plan Approval 16 227201 NNY 34 SA Sep 22, 2016 Application Received

 

[PMT]

Updated renderings for buildings "D" (12 storeys) and "E" (27 storeys). They're being referred to as Phase 2 in SPA documents.

 

[ProjectEnd]

I'm surprised that Urban Capital would allow themselves to be attached to this garbage...

 

[BlackIceTO]

It's definitely not their urban fare. I haven't looked at the price per square foot here, but one assumes that they're not charging top dollar, and having to save some bucks because of that.

 

[Momin]

UT Write-Up: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/10/site-plan-submitted-phase-two-ravine-york-mills

 

[maestro]

I'm surprised that Urban Capital would allow themselves to be attached to this garbage...

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[interchange42]

Things have changed a fair bit here since @PMT's post above. If I have the chronology right here, Building D was resubmitted for SPA as a 29-storey point tower in August 2017, but in a following resubmission from December 2017, it had become a 24-storey tower rising from a 12-storey podium. The building is essentially an upright L-shape now with 312 suites. There are no renderings of the redesigned building floating around out there. The rental, Building E, will have 140 units.

The presentation centre has been closed so that Buildings D and E can be built. Google Street View from Sept 2017 showed them still open at the time.

I have updated the database file.

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