TORONTO | Couture Condominum | 142 M / 466 FT | 42 FLOORS

caltrane74 · #1 Posted **Mar 15, 2011, 12:53 PM**

Couture - Bloor Walk 2 (Ted Rogers Way, Monarch/Philmor, 42s?, G+C)
This site is the previous home of the Anglican Church head Office, now relocated in the lower floors of the first phase of the BloorWalk development on Hayden just east of Church. the demolition sign has been up for quite a while now with no apparent activity. The demolition permit is dated December, 2005. In the meantime, the entire Goodwill site at Adelaide and Jarvis, a much taller building, has been completely razed. Also, Great Gulf has moved ahead with marketing of the XCONDO at 590 Jarvis.

The Philmor Group, developer of Bloorwalk, have permission to erect a 37 storey building, considerably shorter than the 50+ storey next door. I wonder if that is the cause of the delay. Do they want to go up higher?

www.philmorgroup.com/flash.html

Kyle Rae once told me that this developer was notoriously slow and said he prefered to work with *any* other developer. (I had asked him about the publlc park where Hayden deadends, promised as part of the 2-tower development and currently in use as a parking lot!!)

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from cruzin4u at www.urbantoronto.ca

http://www.monarchgroup.net/433,21-n...Community.aspx

caltrane74 · #2 Posted **Mar 17, 2011, 3:43 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by dt_toronto_geek

Not much to see here, but what the hell...

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge, then click again on the image for full size.

from dt toronto geek at UT

caltrane74 · #3 Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 6:57 PM**

quick update from cruzin4u at UT

Innsertnamehere · #4 Posted **Apr 1, 2011, 10:26 PM**

looks eerily similar to a blue-glass X condo....

Davis137 · #5 Posted **Apr 2, 2011, 12:43 AM**

/\/\/\ Agreed...

Dwils01 · #6 Posted **Apr 29, 2011, 7:38 PM**

Couture by me from Tuesday April 26.

yaletown_fella · #7 Posted **Apr 30, 2011, 5:38 PM**

Wow this could rival One Bedford for longest foundation work

caltrane74 · #8 Posted **May 25, 2011, 7:33 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by drum118

May 21

Couture Condo from drum118 at www.urbantoronto.ca

caltrane74 · #9 Posted **Jun 4, 2011, 4:26 PM**

From mike in TO at UT

Thread Here:

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthr...-G-C%29/page28

caltrane74 · #10 Posted **Jul 14, 2011, 2:10 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by cruzin4u

It's been a while since we had a Couture update. Here's what's happening...

Fronting Ted Rogers Way. Work on the podium continues.

Facing South towers X condo.

Nothing much is happening or will be happening from my vantage point (my balcony). It seems the Western area will be completely landscaped, as seen in the last image;

Couture from cruzin4u

at UT

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthr...2s-G-C)/page29

yaletown_fella · #11 Posted **Jul 14, 2011, 6:56 PM**

Thanks for the pics! It seems they've hired slacker construction workers.

The renders suggest it's going to be pretty mediocre quality.

caltrane74 · #12 Posted **Jul 14, 2011, 9:50 PM**

Really, tall filler. Is not being built, to make a statement.

yaletown_fella · #13 Posted **Jul 15, 2011, 5:41 PM**

No doubt. Hey at least it's not fronting onto Bloor. There's still that massive lot behind the hospital that could potentially get a supertall in the future.

caltrane74 · #14 Posted **Jul 20, 2011, 12:33 PM**

Yeah let's hope so, all these towers are petty ante, even the 200 meter towers are becoming run of the mill. We need a supertall, so as to say: "We've arrived watch out!"

Dwils01 · #15 Posted **Jul 24, 2011, 3:23 AM**

Couture from today by me.

caltrane74 · #16 Posted **Aug 6, 2011, 5:40 AM**

nice picture, can never get across to this side of town to catch a shot of this one. Amd will be getting exciting very shortly.

caltrane74 · #17 Posted **Sep 1, 2011, 5:30 PM**

Couture Condo from cruzin4u at UT

threadhere
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthr...2s-G-C)/page32

colemonkee · #18 Posted **Sep 1, 2011, 6:34 PM**

Wow. Not wasting any time on this one, are they?

caltrane74 · #19 Posted **Sep 1, 2011, 6:46 PM**

yeah, they did 6 floors in less than a month.

Amazing.

Travis007 · #20 Posted **Sep 2, 2011, 2:26 PM**

If X Condos looks like the TD Centre in the theory, then the renderings make this look like Commerce Court West. Although with Monarch's mediocre portfolio I wouldn't expect too much. But it's always good to have more infill density .