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TORONTO | Exhibit Residences | 100 M / 329 FT | 32 Floors
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exhibit has an okay design. i like the uniqueness, but the tower seems really plain (colour and texture wise), it's most likely just the rendering though, looks too perfect/surreal.
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The glass will appear white because it's fritted. So kinda like the TIFF Tower Balcony Glass, but this time all the way up.
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THE ROM MEETS ITS MATCH JOHN BENTLEY MAYS | Columnist profile | E-mail Globe and Mail Update Published Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 11:52AM EDT Ever since the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) switched its main entrance from Queens Park to Bloor Street West five years ago, the first thing a visitor has seen, when exiting architect Daniel Libeskind’s controversial extension of the venerable treasure house, is the McDonald’s across Bloor Street West. It’s long been the wrong outlet in the wrong place. The visual punches thrown by Mr. Libeskind’s building, the handsome overhauls by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg of the Royal Conservatory next door and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art around the corner, the establishment of this stretch of Bloor as the most upscale shopping district in Toronto: all these recent cultural transformations have made a dumpy fast-food joint in the midst of this high-style, refined activity increasingly irksome. I’m happy to report, therefore, that the McDonald’s outlet will soon be gone. It is to be turfed out and bulldozed to make way for a new condominium tower that will, if we’re lucky, complement and further the ongoing renaissance of Bloor West. Designed by Toronto architect Rosario Varacalli for a consortium of developers – Bazis, Metropia and Plazacorp – the 32-storey structure, called Exhibit, is the city’s first building to engage in an active architectural dialogue with Mr. Libeskind’s flamboyant monument across the street. (I mean creative dialogue, as opposed to the grumbling one still hears from local architects and the museum-going public about what Daniel Libeskind has visited upon the city.) While the exterior of Mr. Libeskind’s ROM addition is black and grey and metallic, for example, Mr. Varacalli’s tower will be sheathed in white fritted glass. The Bloor Street façade of the ROM is all elbows and knees jazzily jutting out from the central volume. Mr. Varacalli expresses his personal futurism by stacking four big multi-storey slabs of architecture, one on top of the other, then smartly rotating each and sliding it sideways off the vertical axis of the composition. Exhibit, then, will totter and twist up into the sky, while the ROM, despite its angular commotion, hugs the ground. In other words, Mr. Varacalli’s building will be a re-interpretation, in light of Mr. Libeskind’s various manipulations of space, of the tall-building form in an urban context. Instead of slipping politely into the surrounding city fabric, like a routine modernist skyscraper is supposed to do, Exhibit will stand out, assertively defining the streetscape just as the ROM does. And instead of retiring from the fray of big-city life behind dull, opaque cladding – the worst thing about Mr. Libeskind’s ROM exterior – Exhibit will show a bright, light and translucent face to the street. Exhibit’s unusual shape dictates wide variety in the suite configurations: Mr. Varacalli told me that there are 40 different apartment layouts in this complex of just 200 condominium apartments. The size of units range from around 600 square feet to 1,500 square feet for two bedrooms and a den that can be converted into a third bedroom. Prices for available one-bedroom apartments start at $600,000, Mr. Varacalli said, while the largest suites are priced at around $2-million. The top two floors of Exhibit will be devoted to penthouses. The views deserve special mention. The ones from the upper three rotating volumes will open, to the south, toward downtown and Lake Ontario over the low block of the ROM and the campus of the University of Toronto. To the north, they will open across the stable residential Annex neighbourhood. The building will present a set of protected views, that is – a rare asset in a city increasingly populated by view-blocking high-rises. An adjoining garage structure will offer eight floors of parking. Because the subway runs directly beneath the building, there will be no underground parking or basement. On top of the garage, Mr. Varacalli will roll out a garden with trees and a reflecting pool. The garden will connect directly to standard high-rise interior amenities – a fitness centre, a private dining room and so on. The lowest two storeys of the tower will feature shops, as befits a building that fronts on to a retail street like Bloor West. The entrance to the residences, crafted by designers Diego Burdi and Paul Filek, will be a mere slot in the street-wall of retail. Toronto clearly doesn’t need striking tall buildings of this kind on every street corner. The city still requires much patient, gentle care, if its basic texture is to be spared and conserved. But a theatrical gesture like Exhibit every now and then, especially in a high-pressure cultural zone such as Bloor West, is and should be welcome. from the globe and mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle1964897/ |
More chat up on Exhbit Condos
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Good news on the horizon for Bazi's Exhibit Residences (Toronto), according to urbandreamer on Twitter. Quote:
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Nice. But I'm a little puzzled why Toronto is getting all the action.
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Large International Communities live in Toronto, which is drawing in International Investment.
Also, Toronto is a leader in Tech/Mobile Tech/Communications/Banking/Automotive/Media/Commodities & Resources/Gold Mining/International Trade/, etc, etc. |
Is this the McDonald's site, or next door?
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No the McDonald's is right next door.
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This will make the ROM crystal look less out of place that's for sure!
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Yeah, in 100 years they will be the Pyramid and Sphinx of Toronto.
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Article from the Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle1710402/ From the City of Toronto Application: New Building Status: Not Started Location: 200 BLOOR ST W TORONTO ON M5S 1T8 Ward 20: Trinity-Spadina Application#: 11 297046 BLD 00 NB Accepted Date: Oct 21, 2011 Project: Mixed Use/Res w Non Res New Building Description: Proposal to construct 31-storey mixed-use building with above grade parking structure and one level basement, with retail at ground and second floor. Residential GFA to total 22839m2 (with 211 units), retail shell to total 1191m2, including sprinklers at 30809m2. Also see related PPR file 11-243663, demolition file 11-246219, and SPA file 09-111148. Also connected to addresses 192A Bloor St W and 194 Bloor St W. |
Hoarding is down at Museum House.
Should be all clear for this one to start construction shortly!!!! |
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:jester:Haha! if only mcdonalds was like that all the time!
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This will be a very classy and High End McDonalds.
It will be in the base of Exhibit Tower when it is complete. |
I'm glad it will be rebuilt in the base of this building, I understand they had a 100 year lease on the property. People may argue it has no place in the area or in the base of a high end condo but being located across the street from the R.O.M it provides a cheap alternative for tourists and students visiting the museum. McDonalds is kind of the International Safety Restaurant. You can go almost anywhere in the world and find almost the exact same menu.
This location will need to be ultra modern to fit in with Exhibits architecture. |
This project should be moving into the construction phase this year. I believe there was a bit of a hold up on construction because the Muesuem House Condo was finishing up next door. But the hoarding has been taken down there, and the businesses have been emptied out with the exception of the MacDonalds. Looks like we will be seeing some action later on this year.
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Permit has been filed to begin construction on Exhibit Condos
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