Canadian City Proposals

[WhipperSnapper]

Yeah, a POPS should stand for more than any open space on a development site. This one is highly unlikely to be developed anyways.

[TorontoDrew]

A few more of 646 Yonge Street from urbantoronto.ca

Address 646 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2A6
Category Residential (Market-Rate Rental, Condo), Commercial (Retail)
Status Pre-Construction
Number of Buildings 1
Height 833 ft / 254.00 m
Storeys 75
Number of Units 548

[someone123]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

A small footprint and the heritage buildings don't have anything grafted onto their rooftop or aggressively cantilevered over them? Can this be real?

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by someone123

A small footprint and the heritage buildings don't have anything grafted onto their rooftop or aggressively cantilevered over them? Can this be real?

I know. I kept looking at the pictures trying to find what I was missing, but they've left the bulk of the tower out of the picture above the structures for a decent way.

[Maldive]

The heritage block will be retained but plans are to knock out the second floors to provide double-height retail spaces.

[GeneralLea]

That's disappointing. I think that'd look terrible from the inside of those shops.

[WhipperSnapper]

It'll look odd if the entire second floor is removed.

[Maldive]

Lots of updates to a few of the larger redevelopment plans in town:


2180 Yonge | 247m | 65s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini l pre-construction

Complete redesign of siteplan with tallest towers moved towards Yonge and parkland added. Below are updated “placeholder” renderings (not final HPA designs) showing the masterplan revisions.


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The building on the left is the retained office building.


Northern Light

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Before and After siteplans:


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Weston Park Development | 172.13m | 50s | Castlepoint Numa | SvN l pre-construction

This mixed-use one jumped big time from 38 & 28 storeys to 50 & 45 storeys with residential unit count going from 538 to 927! Located on a triangular site where Lawrence Avenue West and Weston Road intersect.


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Dixie Outlet Mall Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Slate | Giannone Petricone l pre-construction

New and improved images for another mall redevelopment. 1,200 residential units, retail, 3.5 acres of park space and plans to add new pedestrian connections and multi-modal trails within the site and accessibility to the existing transit terminal. Located south of Queen Elizabeth Way and west of Dixie Road.


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[J.OT13]

Updated proposal on Bronson in Ottawa, area called the "Glebe Annex". 850 meters from Dow's Lake station and 1.7 kilometers from Carleton University, it will be in part targeted at University students.

Originally Posted by rocketphish

Updated proposal (December 2022)

As well as an updated design, the building height has been lowered from 26 to 22 floors.


Siteplan:




Renderings:

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Maldive

Lots of updates to a few of the larger redevelopment plans in town:

This part of town could use an injection of life. It's really run down and looks like it's trapped in 1960. Love me some flatiron's so I'm glad they want to build to fit this site. So mayny structures around that intersection could be posted in the Ugly Canada Thread. Like this across the road. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7000496,...HHvGb0dhZchSbc8ER2sdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Maldive]

Galleria III | 111.5m | 31s | Almadev | Hariri Pontarini l excavation

Excavation just started for the “flatiron” jewel in the crown of the Galleria Mall redevelopment.


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[trueviking]

I don't see the CN Tower in the renderings so I'm not sure if the Dixie Outlet Mall is in Toronto. There's a Queen Elzabeth Way in Winnipeg but it doesn't look familiar.

Wherever it is, that's a very interesting development model for the rest of the country. I wouldn't be surprised to see mall parking lots being redeveloped everywhere. There is a smaller but similar proposal in suburban Winnipeg.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

This part of town could use an injection of life. It's really run down and looks like it's trapped in 1960. Love me some flatiron's so I'm glad they want to build to fit this site. So mayny structures around that intersection could be posted in the Ugly Canada Thread. Like this across the road. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7000496,...HHvGb0dhZchSbc8ER2sdA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

For me it's kind of sad because I like that there's at least one urban part of town that retained its soulful character without everything having to be sparkling new and polished. I want to see density added all across the city and metro area but in this case I'd prefer something that blends in better with the existing cityscape. But of course that's just my own aesthetic preference.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by trueviking

I don't see the CN Tower in the renderings so I'm not sure if the Dixie Outlet Mall is in Toronto. There's a Queen Elzabeth Way in Winnipeg but it doesn't look familiar.

Wherever it is, that's a very interesting development model for the rest of the country. I wouldn't be surprised to see mall parking lots being redeveloped everywhere. There is a smaller but similar proposal in suburban Winnipeg.

The mall is in Mississauga, fairly close to the border with Toronto.
https://goo.gl/maps/XiLAUL2APBCntyYc9

There hasn't been a lot of residential high-rise development along this part of the QEW yet, but I think it's likely coming. The Hamilton-Niagara section has been seeing a lot especially between Hamilton and its Grimsby suburb, but there are more open spaces on that stretch whereas the Toronto-Burlington portion has more existing development, commercial/industrial properties, etc.

There have been a number of mall parking lot proposals in Hamilton lately. Some totally replace defunct retail, some are redevelopments that will keep the existing mall. There's one that is quite big (and it will be at the eastern terminus of the LRT, so quite appropriate... though people in the area are complaining already about too much density, too much height, too much traffic, etc.)

[WhipperSnapper]

It's not just a 50 storey tower. It's also includes a second 45 storey tower. I'd be more open to a 50 storey tower if the second was 25 storeys. The overall masses sticks out too much as proposed.

The area has a lot of dreadful apartment slabs. I also question how well today's standards will hold up in the 2070s.

[yaletown_fella]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

It's not just a 50 storey tower. It's also includes a second 45 storey tower. I'd be more open to a 50 storey tower if the second was 25 storeys. The overall masses sticks out too much as proposed.

The area has a lot of dreadful apartment slabs. I also question how well today's standards will hold up in the 2070s.

I will likely be dead by then, but I predict condo fees will go through the roof when there needs to be critical restoration or reinforcement of the support columns/concrete/rebar structure etc.

When I browse condos for sale, Im noticing some buildings from the 80s with condo fees in the $700/mo. range for a one bedroom.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by Maldive

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Weston Park Development | 172.13m | 50s | Castlepoint Numa | SvN l pre-construction

This mixed-use one jumped big time from 38 & 28 storeys to 50 & 45 storeys with residential unit count going from 538 to 927! Located on a triangular site where Lawrence Avenue West and Weston Road intersect.

This reminds me a lot of the modern residential towers that have recently gone up around London UK.

[Maldive]

Oakville

2077-2105 Royal Windsor Drive | 97m | 29s | Slate | Gensler l pre-construction

Big changes for a parking lot wasteland in Oakville. Some may not like it but I’m a big fan of the muscular warehouse aesthetic of the podiums (though there’s little existing architecture references from the site).

Wouldn’t mind something like this from the Slate and Gensler team for downtown, where the warehouse-podium design idea makes more sense… and has already been introduced beautifully by CentreCourt with their 55 Mercer development.


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Existing site.


Tim MacDonald

[Coldrsx]

Very Flatiron Vancouver.

[905er]

^^^ this is a MISSISSAUGA proposal in Clarkson. boarding on OAKVILLE.