Canada's 50 Tallest Proposals

[The_Architect]

Now 88 Scott is an example of something vaguely interesting going up in the city.. More of that and less of Karma/90 Harbour please.

[caltrane74]

88 Scott is ok, but I like 90 Harbour/1 York better.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by TallBob

I like 88 Scott! I wish Calgary could get 2-3 residential buldings that height. Guardian pretty good. Looks like the floor to ceiling heights are on the short side.... IMO

143 metres for a 40 to 42 storey condo is actually quite tall.

[davidivivid]

Originally Posted by Travis007

88 Scott, Toronto

New higher quality rendering.



http://88scott.com/

Sharp design!!!!!!!!!!

[HomeInMyShoes]

^Except for the last two floors I really like the massing on that one.

[steveve]

88 scott looks better and better! and i completely forgot it was right up at the edge of berczy park! wow this thing is gonna look huge from the park! completely dominate the view from the flatiron!

[Ramako]

Below is a quote from SSC of the source of the rumour of the 5 storey increase at One Bloor:

Originally Posted by BuzzBuzzHome

Hey everyone,

Just to give a bit more information and background on the discussion.... we heard this directly from their sales centre, along with visuals and ads that have been created for the announcement.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by The_Architect

Now 88 Scott is an example of something vaguely interesting going up in the city.. More of that and less of Karma/90 Harbour please.

Agree. I'd rather that Karma/90 Harbour remained vacant lots till a proper architecture firm was hired. 88 Scott is miles better than either of those duds.

[caltrane74]

Any truth to the rumour of 5 extra floors on 5 Condos?

[caltrane74]

Application: Zoning Review Status: Not Started
Location: 618 YONGE ST
TORONTO ON M4Y 1Z3

Ward 27: Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Application#: 11 301044 ZPR 00 ZR Accepted Date: Oct 28, 2011
Project: Multiple-Use Building Addition
Description: Proposal to construct a 50 storey mixed use building with a 5 storey below grade parking facility, a ground floor and mezzanie commercial level and the residential above. Convenience address:606 Yonge street, 5-9 Joseph Street and 11-19 Nicholas Street.


Looks like they are trying to go from 45 to 50.

So it is....

[vegeta_skyline]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Agree. I'd rather that Karma/90 Harbour remained vacant lots till a proper architecture firm was hired. 88 Scott is miles better than either of those duds.

Same here, I'd rather they remain vacant like One Bloor was, rather than being stuck with —-itecture like Karma & 90 Harbour in perpetuity

[dleung]

What's with the arbitrarily-arranged punched window grid? 88 Scott has the same misguided PoMo aspirations as Trump, albeit without the downright offensive onion dome.

[vegeta_skyline]

Originally Posted by dleung

What's with the arbitrarily-arranged punched window grid? 88 Scott has the same misguided PoMo aspirations as Trump

True, but that's not what Trump's main failings were;

------------------------------------------ Trump --- 88 Scott
Random floor heights -------------------- YES ------- NO
Poor choice of spandrel color ------------ YES ------- NO
Large blank wall at ground level ---------- YES ------- NO
Stone that looks no better than concrete-YES -------- ?

As for Trump's onion dome, some people find it tacky, others think its the best thing the building has going for it.

[Metro-One]

Here is a new model of the Telus towers (the office tower plus the residential tower, which is 135 meters tall.)



source: http://changingcitybook.com/2012/01/14/telus-the-residential-tower/#comments

[Andrewjm3D]

Not bad but it looks much better from the reversed angle.

[vegeta_skyline]

I hope 88 Scott is the start of a new design trend. We've got far too many glass boxes with no articulation in this city, what we really need is something along these lines;

Originally Posted by Lexy

Looking up!

A PoMo creation, which is just about as fine of a piece of architectural work as you'll find anywhere imo.

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

Not bad but it looks much better from the reversed angle.

I agree, but it will fill in this corner of the city very well.

[dleung]

RE: Telus development... [copy/pasting what i wrote in the vancouver thread]

Originally Posted by dleung

The massing of the residential makes no sense... it's like they've simply cloned the "tower on 3-storey podium" template without thinking about the context. The tower is too fat and slabby too; it'll miniaturize the scale of the other buildings in the skyline, making the skyline look smaller. This would have been the perfect location and context for the Shaw Tower typology, with fat office floorplates for the first 10 floors, followed by small residential plates up top. "

RE: Vegeta Skyline

Why on earth would Toronto want to follow in the footsteps of second-rate cities like Atlanta or Charlotte, much less from their 80's architectural stock... you're creating a false dichotomy with the "no more glass boxes"... there are other styles out there

[TallBob]

Don't know the name but that's a picture from Charolotte, NC.

[vegeta_skyline]

Who said anything about Atlanta? (but for the record, out of the 6 PoMo skyscrapers +500ft buildings in that city I'm only a fan of 2)
I'm not suggesting a return on mass to the dominate style of the 80's. But a little more diversity wouldn't kill us would it?
And afterall PoMo is the generation that brought Toronto, at least arguably, its most renowned skyscraper - Scotia Plaza.