Canadian City Proposals - Page 891

WhipperSnapper · #**17801** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 3:42 PM**

random stone accent is par for the course.

one in Toronto
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.809433,-...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Airboy · #**17802** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Ugh, my eyes. This is totally a Simpsons episode.

"Ugh...I'll take the crab juice."

I wished this would stop but they are cheep and easy to build. Problem is once a fire starts you end up loosing 50% of the building before it is out. And you loose 60 suites for 2 years. We have just had another fire in one this week.

The one Cold posted is a hell of a lot better, and yes they can be better but I'll take that one over the hundreds getting built now.

They are also better built than most of the shit out there. I hate going into do a installation review of these Residential units. Coming from a commercial side I cringe and the shit that is acceptable.

WhipperSnapper · #**17803** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 5:24 PM**

A small unnoticed leak may result in the OSB sheathing and I-beams having to be abated or structurally damaged.

Based on my limited experience. I've encountered a bathroom vented directly into an attic space with barely a black spot on the plywood roof sheathing. I've see OSB roof sheathing covered in mold from a badly plumbed bathroom vent that exhausted to the outside. The newer OSB sheathed home is much better sealed than the the older plywood home so that likely can have a bigger roll than the materials.

TorontoDrew · #**17804** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 5:40 PM**

354 Pape Avenue
8 floors

source: urbantoronto.ca.

This will be a great investment opportunity with the new subway line going in and a station over the pedestrian bridge. If you don't mind a bit of noise and like train spotting this is for you.

Only a few renders atm.

O-tacular · #**17805** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

The standard is this:

Plenty of this trash in Calgary too. In Edmonton's case just be thankful it's not rainbow coloured stucco a la Venetian.

Airboy · #**17806** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

A small unnoticed leak may result in the OSB sheathing and I-beams having to be abated or structurally damaged.

Based on my limited experience. I've encountered a bathroom vented directly into an attic space with barely a black spot on the plywood roof sheathing. I've see OSB roof sheathing covered in mold from a badly plumbed bathroom vent that exhausted to the outside. The newer OSB sheathed home is much better sealed than the the older plywood home so that likely can have a bigger roll than the materials.

Any residence built during a boom is subject to crappy workmanship. My own house included. Built at the Start of the 70s boom in Alberta. Plumber cut through a floor joist to put in the shower trap. (Only found it when the ceiling below was removed. Stripped the house of the siding and found the lower sections were covered by scrap sheathing and had gaps in it. (Why I had frost of some walls).

Smoke detector was wired using a telephone cable that was connected to a 120 volt switch. (why this never caught fire I will never know).

But I see enough shit in my own job to be highly critical of any work.

I had a mechanical contractor rip out all the medical gas lines in a hospital reno. He went to Home depot and bought his copper lines. Not the copper that was required. Cost him $100,000.00. but saved him from a few law suits.

I do have a few residential projects on the go but only up to the building connections.

WhipperSnapper · #**17807** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 7:13 PM**

fun stuff.

Every peculiarity I've seen has resulted from a bad reno. i'm not going to go into venting. Electricity is straight forward. Penny wire nuts or even dollar junction boxes shouldn't break anyone's bank.

WhipperSnapper · #**17808** Posted **Mar 4, 2022, 7:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

354 Pape Avenue
8 floors

source: urbantoronto.ca.

This will be a great investment opportunity with the new subway line going in and a station over the pedestrian bridge. If you don't mind a bit of noise and like train spotting this is for you.

Only a few renders atm.

Shocking its not 30 storeys tall. The plaza the subway emerges onto the rail corridor (green) probably will be.

FrAnKs · #**17809** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 2:32 AM**

Québec City

Le Scandinave - 4fl.

Opale - 2x10fl.

urbandreamer · #**17810** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 2:52 AM**

The Bay's downtown store (Queen and Yonge) is being redeveloped as well.

Expect the details to drop soon.

TorontoDrew · #**17811** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 2:14 PM**

I wonder if Covid and people doing more online shopping is to Blame for the bay looking to redevelop their department stores.

Do you have any info on it? All I can find is that the Bay announced 2 weeks ago they will be closing the Bloor street location May 31st of this year.

https://www.thespec.com/ts/business/2022...-two-downtown-toronto-stores-in-may.html

TorontoDrew · #**17812** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 2:32 PM**

Here is another proposal for the Danforth. I like the scale but it feels a little jumbled. I like whats going on with the black part though. Strange there has been a subway along the Danforth now for 50+ years and not much intensification.

Source: urbantoronto.ca

I don't see much point of retaining the heritage structure here. It's a funeral home.

WhipperSnapper · #**17813** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 2:36 PM**

The Bay is just a tenant. Cadillac Fairview owns the building.

You just know with urbandreamer. No matter. The number of proposals keep racking up. Building them is another story.

WhipperSnapper · #**17814** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 2:42 PM**

It's too wide for me but, I appreciate the attempt at breaking up the facade and still having it look good. That's a really bad facadectomy as far as facadectomies go.

TorontoDrew · #**17815** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 3:18 PM**

I'm ok with the width. It's worth it to build this just to make better use of that bit of the street. It's so ugly like much of the Danforth.

Just take a look: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6808432,...57SlNCcbFktzE-j4hvSXQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Right now it has one of the ugliest churches I can think of, surface parking, and the funeral home/ crematorium. It won't be as wide as the Greenwood Towers Senior home across the street. I'm just going down the road in streetsview and it really is a street in need of a facelift and the only way to do this is get rid of half of the structures along it.

yaletown_fella · #**17816** Posted **Mar 5, 2022, 8:08 PM**

The new building above the heritage element, should have been set back a lot further than the rest of the building and done in that same punched window style instead of the glass. There should have also been more stepbacks on that eastern side of the lot.