129-131 Wellington Street N | 4 fl | Under Construction
 

New stacked townhouse development going in front of the Design Review Panel. Rendering is in the latest edition of Novae Res Urbis. This will have 16 units and replaces what is currently an empty lot:

https://i.imgur.com/Z4o5w5o.png

This isn't too bad, nice infill.

Until they recently fenced this property up, I would walk through this lot on my way to work everyday. Happy something seems to be happening.

https://i.imgur.com/P6RY4OC.png

building permit issued here, and when I drove by this morning it looked like they had begun excavation for the foundations.

Any development in Ward 3 is very welcomed

is the latest render still 2020

Technically, this is on the Ward 2 side of Wellington ;)


updated rendering from UT:

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...-3-jpg.465393/

Kelly Street had been closed to traffic and a shoring rig was on site this morning when I drove by.

Who's the developer here?

My pre-emptive sympathy goes out to those who will live in basement apartments here.

Looks good!

This could change to Under Construction - August 30

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...18-jpg.503693/

Thanks for the photo update!

129-131 Wellington Street N | 4 fl | Proposed -> 129-131 Wellington Street N | 4 fl | Under Construction

February 26, 2024
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...0-jpeg.543822/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...1-jpeg.543823/

They went with grey brick? Ooof.

It's pre-cast concrete.

..it's somehow even uglier than the render. What's up with the half-windows??

I'm guessing they're going to paint it or something?

It looks literally identical to the render, other than the colour. Which im assuming they will paint it.

It will almost certainly be painted, yes.

A stain actually.

..nope, it's not, window layout deviates quite a bit, on the front and sides.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...-3-jpg.465393/

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...0-jpeg.543822/

The biggest deviation being the bizarre, FILLING IN of those windows - the front sides complete and the middle half-way.. very bizarre.. no bottom basement windows like the render - thinner windows, side windows don't reflect the render - top ones are narrower. No side windows on the top penthouses, So no, not identical to the render, and yes, worse looking than the render.

It is possible that they wanted more wall space inside but still wanted the look of all of the windows. I know there are other ways of doing it.

The building now has "jughead syndrome" - the windows looking like lazy half opened eyes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Jugheadjns.png

I hereby dub thee "the jughead lofts"

There are a number of differences. The top level is different: the render was all glass, the build is not. There are no windows to a basement level. And the third level corner doesn't have that little step back on the east side.

Those half-windows are weird, but maybe there's reason for that. Stairwells and elevators?

Oh well. Given some of the uglies that have gone up in this town, I don't think this will rank among the worst. Hopefully whatever exterior colour treatment is applied will bear that out.

If only it had cornices. :P

Lol, it even has a "seam line" at the top for where a cornice could go! Problem solved! :cheers:

The half windows are just weird.

Looks like they dropped the basement?

I'm dubbing a new term for this look - commie lego-block.