Okay: lots of photos. To see larger versions, please visit
my Flickr set, and play the slideshow, or click on the ALL SIZES button above the individual pics.
First, the overall model from various angles.
Here's something to look for, even though you will not see it: the building behind the balconies is
not a rectangle. Each side of the building is angled two ways, with one angle running parallel to the street it fronts, while another portion angles out gently towards the street. The angling brings the building out toward the corner points of the balconies. If one were to pull those corner points out further, the building would look like a pinwheel from above... have I described that clearly?
from the west:
from the northwest:
from the north:
from the northeast:
from the east:
and from the southeast:
Next, a look at the roofline, and a good time to talk about materials. The building will be clad in curtainwall, with the balconies edged with fritted glass, presumably producing an effect not entirely unlike KPMB's Festival Tower. Above the 65th floor the sculptural articulation of the balconies below will continue to the roof with the fritted glass, alternating with the clear glass of the curtainwall: this building will end up with a lantern style mechanical room up top.
from the northeast:
from the northwest:
from the southwest:
from the southeast:
Now for the podium and street level details of the model.
from the northeast, across Bloor Street:
from the north, as if from 2 Bloor East:
from the northwest, as if from 2 Bloor West:
looking down Yonge Street: (with a large indent at the corner with Bloor: could this be the Apple store's entrance some day?)
the Yonge Street facade: retail on floors 1 and 2, residential terraces on 3, 4, 5, and 6.
the podium from the southwest: vehicular access will be from a slightly widened Hayden Street.
spa level on the 7th floor from the southwest: the podium roof will hold 4 feet of soil for the trees and plants to grow in
spa level from the south: indoor and outdoor pools, a view to the spa atrium
spa level from the east: the swim-in/swin-out pool
level 6: lower spa level, plus residences in the south end of the podium
level 7: outdoor spa level
Finally, the design team assembles by the model:
David Gerofsky, President and COO of developer Great Gulf, Anna Simone of interior design firm Cecconi Simone Inc., Janet Rosenberg of landscape architect Janet Rosenberg + Associates, David Pontarini of architectural firm Hariri Pontarini Architects.
Further details regarding the design:
Commercial space will be approximately 100,000 square feet, will 35,000 sq ft of that at street level, 45,000 sq ft of that on the level above, and 25,000 sq ft on the concourse (read: basement) level. A pedestrian mall connection will run through the ground floor commercial space from Yonge Street straight into the TTC connection in the Xerox building. One Bloor will not connect under Bloor Street to the Hudson's Bay Centre.
Ways to highlight the building's curves with light are night are being considered: LEDs may be used to trace the curves.
Suites are grouped in 4 sections:
The Podium: these suites do not appear to be on sale in the intial phase.
Silver: floors 8 through 38: 12 units per floor
Gold: floors 39 through 59: 10 units per floor
Platinum: floors 60 through 65: 6 units per floor
Those distinctions also have to do with level of finishing and features.
Sales are open first, and as of now, to buyers who purchased in the former Bazis project on this site. There is no firm date as yet to when the units will be on sale to the general public.
And now the question you've all been waiting for: the developer was asked at the launch if the building might increase in height before all is said and done. The answer:
yes, it
might, if the
demand is there.
So for all of you screaming for 80 stories at Bloor and Yonge: if you want that, go out and buy a unit here. If you don't buy a unit here, don't whine incessantly about there only being 65 floors in the plan for this tower.
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.. or i could just make my own 
which would fail!
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