Canadian City Proposals II

[TorontoDrew]

I don't mind that at all, I don't even care about the facade here.

Tone, is that same same proposal that was once this?

source: lapresse.ca

[MolsonExport]

why do so many recent builds/proposals have to invert at the base?

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I don't mind that at all, I don't even care about the facade here.

Tone, is that same same proposal that was once this?

source: lapresse.ca

Wasn't that for Quebec City (St. Foy)?

[Nouvellecosse]

With the Isabella Street proposal I don't mind the inverted base, but to use residential houses as a podium just doesn't work for me. It just feels bizarre and out of place for such a large building. There are literally only two buildings in the country outside greater Toronto that are taller than this. If it was just 10-15 stories that might be different.

[TorontoDrew]

In this instance, it might be best to just demolish them. It's a shame we don't have an area that buildings like this could be dismantled and rebuilt somewhere more permanent in the city.

[TorontoDrew]

Some good news, this building will no longer be getting the added floors and addition on the rear of the tower. It is going to be restored and turned into a Marriott Hotel. This is great news as I'm sure they will try to restore the lobby of this structure as best they can.

source: urbantoronto.ca
Canclelled


Cancelled


Now under the ownership of Montreal-based Artifact Group, a hospitality-focused real estate firm making its first Toronto acquisition, the 15-storey former Canadian Pacific Railway Building at the southeast corner of King and Yonge streets will be converted into a 162-key hotel under Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio brand.
Artifact Group is proposing a conversion of the 1913-built, 15-storey Canadian Pacific Railway Building at 69 Yonge Street into a 162 room hotel with architecture by Giannone Petricone and interior design by Ivy Studio.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

I like the crown and the top half but find the weird glass midsection breaks up the flow of the cool facade. Then the Toronto special base that shrinks down and looks completely alien to everything else just ruins it. Why do Toronto developers love to do this so much? It's the equivalent of Calgary's practically mandatory policy of twins.

The idea, at least in theory, is that the glass transition "disappears" and would give the heritage podium room to breathe while allowing the tower's design language be read on its own terms. Of course, in practice it just makes the tower look disjointed, while the podium still feels overwhelmed, and the jarring glass cube just ends up clashing with both.

I hate heritage facadism with a passion almost always, but where it "must" exist, it would be nice if the architects embraced it instead, and allowed the base to inform the tower design.

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

In this instance, it might be best to just demolish them. It's a shame we don't have an area that buildings like this could be dismantled and rebuilt somewhere more permanent in the city.

The bigger shame is that we can't just preserve worthwhile heritage structures like these. Believe it or not, not everything needs to be a 70-storey tower!

[craner]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Couldn't they add a nice decorative festive cornice to it to push it over the top???

How about some gargoyles???

Yeah - a 1 meter tall grotesque.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Maldive

164-168 Isabella Street | 244.16m | 70s | Elysium | Studio JCI l pre-construction

This one grew a bit in a resubmission. 648 rental units so this could move forward despite the condo bust.


UT

Oppressive and outright dystopian looking. It looms over the building like a guillotine. I hate this Toronto style of tapered towers almost as much as the postage stamp facadism.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

The idea, at least in theory, is that the glass transition "disappears" and would give the heritage podium room to breathe while allowing the tower's design language be read on its own terms. Of course, in practice it just makes the tower look disjointed, while the podium still feels overwhelmed, and the jarring glass cube just ends up clashing with both.

I hate heritage facadism with a passion almost always, but where it "must" exist, it would be nice if the architects embraced it instead, and allowed the base to inform the tower design.


The bigger shame is that we can't just preserve worthwhile heritage structures like these. Believe it or not, not everything needs to be a 70-storey tower!

Agreed. The vision glass clashes and then the half hearted arches like in the previous addition aren't at all harmonious with heritage architecture.

[Tone]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I don't mind that at all, I don't even care about the facade here.

Tone, is that same same proposal that was once this?

source: lapresse.ca

No, its a bit confusing since they both have the same name but like Molson mentionned, this one is the ill fated Phare in Sainte-Foy (a Quebec City district).

[J.OT13]

Next Zibi tower on the Hull side. Corner of Eddy and Laurier. 23 floors, 240 units with street level retail.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.42424,-7..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDQyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[TorontoDrew]

This got a height increase and redesign. I'm liking this version.
source: urbantoronto.ca

1956 Weston | 149.15m | 45s | Weston Asset Management | Kirkor








And the previous design.

[J.OT13]

Toronto is just so bad at these heritage "retentions".

[TorontoDrew]

U of T: Temerty Building

Posted on urbantoronto.ca

[Glow Fun City]

Really nice! Love the rounded corners

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Toronto is just so bad at these heritage "retentions".

I actually don't mind how it's done here. But after looking at streetsview I'm not even sure why those buildings (at least the 2 on Weston are being saved. The only structure worth saving is the building on Little Ave IMO.

1956_Weston_Road by Andrew Moore, on Flickr

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I actually don't mind how it's done here. But after looking at streetsview I'm not even sure why those buildings (at least the 2 on Weston are being saved. The only structure worth saving is the building on Little Ave IMO.

The frame Georgian on the corner dates back to 1851 and is a rare example of that period and style in that part of Toronto.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

1956 Weston | 149.15m | 45s | Weston Asset Management | Kirkor

I don't care who but someone needs to go to jail for this

[trueviking]

lol Toronto.