Canadian City Proposals II

[yaletown_fella]

243-247 Davenport Road

16 Story condo with retail proposal.

DC Dev Corp & Richard Wengle Architects

South side of Davenport , just west of Avenue Rd.

[Biff]

Pretty soon Toronto will have to start importing in 1800's to early 1900's era house facades to place on all of their new tower podiums.

Originally Posted by Maldive

239 Dundas East | 163.6m | 52s | Metropia | Turner Fleischer l pre-construction

[thmx]

New rendering of Hamilton's 310 Frances Ave


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[Coldrsx]

Two 22-Storey Towers Planned For First Phase Of Edmonton Mill Woods Town Centre
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The City of Edmonton is currently taking public comment on the proposal for the first phase of the Mill Woods Town Centre redevelopment.

Howard Chai
February 09, 2024


https://storeys.com/edmonton-mill-wo...ent-phase-one/

[Nouvellecosse]

The Davenport Road one looks decent to me. The only thing that I don't care for is that the facade is overly dominated by uniform window grid, and perhaps overly large windows for the style. The profile and silhouette seem to be trying to evoke Neo-Classical, Deco, and Art Moderne forms but those styles aren't so heavily dominated by window. There needs to be more of a focal element to break up all the window. For instance, the central stripe of darker frames should be more than just darker frames. It should be either protruding bay windows or ornate balconies with that line carrying up to some sort of crown element. One St Thomas, while not perfect, does a good job of reinterpreting a legacy style without it being overly compromised by contemporary demands for unimpeded views.

A facade consisting almost entirely of a uniform grid of square windows works well with modernist styles but for me, modernism doesn't work well with that silhouette. It dabbles in tacky pomo territory. But this is far from the worst offender so I can't complain to much. Just a minor note.

[Nouvellecosse]

^ I like the design of the towers which looks very sleek with the vertical lines.

[Maldive]

Royal Ontario Museum - OpenROM Project | Siamak Hariri

Fueled by by a $50-million donation from the Hennick Family Foundation (the largest cash gift in ROM’s history), OpenROM includes an architectural transformation of the Museum’s main floor and a redesigned Bloor Street entrance. Highlights include large founatains wrapping around the heritage ROM building, an expansive bronze canopy sheltering the Bloor Street entrance and four-storey atrium capped with a sweeping, high-performance diagrid glass ceiling. Total budget for the reno is $130million.

“OpenROM’s expansive architectural design, coupled with year-round free admission to the Museum’s entire main floor, as well as unlimited access to special programming, live performances, and hands-on activities, will make ROM an even greater cultural anchor and gathering place”. 



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Fly through link: https://youtu.be/_bcs_LlfhpI

[TorontoDrew]

This was a very unexpected surprise. How rich is that family to just gift 50 million?

[rbt]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

This was a very unexpected surprise. How rich is that family to just gift 50 million?

Somewhere around 2 billion according to Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/jay-h...h=4da057c6c9d4

[WhipperSnapper]

This canupy compromises the integrity of the Liebeskind crystal. I hate stairs too.

This is an opportunity to spread the wealth to small museums that large donors ignore or buy, renovate, build an off site annex instead of constantly reinventing award worthy architectural design. I guess the dude's foundation wants the family name on another big name institution

[Maldive]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

This canupy compromises the integrity of the Liebeskind crystal.

The huge swath of transparent glass along Bloor, which exposes some the wacky structural steel required to build the thing, is great imo.

The little mall entrance that's presently there doesn't exactly scream "yay... we're here!".


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As for the stairs, there's a ramp plenty big enough for you to use.

[dleung]

Originally Posted by Maldive

Royal Ontario Museum - OpenROM Project | Siamak Hariri


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150 million and they couldn't spend any effort on making the canopy complementary to the architecture? This is an opportunity to redo some of the failures of the existing design, starting with replacing the shoehorned standard entrance door with something more akin to a crack in the crystals, besides the much-needed weather protection. The canopy could literally be any arrangement of clear glass origami on spider fittings:

[WhipperSnapper]

That's better. Not sure about the direction of this new shard. I don't know why we have to alter the entrance so much and I fully acknowledge It's a hole in a shard. Enlarge the entrance opening so that it's a glassy shard like opening and forget about the weather shield and height lowering stairs

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by dleung

150 million and they couldn't spend any effort on making the canopy complementary to the architecture? This is an opportunity to redo some of the failures of the existing design, starting with replacing the shoehorned standard entrance door with something more akin to a crack in the crystals, besides the much-needed weather protection. The canopy could literally be any arrangement of clear glass origami on spider fittings:

Interesting but I think it's already got a bit of a shard shape. I'm guessing the purpose for the exterior changes is to create a grander entrance then what is currently there. The way it is now the doors don't give any sense of grandeur as you approach the structure. I think my favorite thing about the new entrance will be the exposed structural beams that will now be visible inside and out.

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[urbandreamer]

This is just lipstick on a pig .. and two steps, I mean decades, closer to total demolition and insertions of towers behind the "heritage" facades. And OMG, the demographics of the renderpeople are off the mark.

[Coldrsx]

Reference ID: Job No 500496662-002
Description: Construction of (a) new building(s), Demolition
Location: 10164 - 108 STREET NW
Plan B2 Blk 8 Lot 146
Applicant: J+S ARCHITECT
Status: Intake Review
Create Date: 2024-02-09T17:25:58Z
Neighbourhood: DOWNTOWN

[WhipperSnapper]

I don't know what is worse. The architecture. Or the ground floor balconies with a patch of grass separating them from the sidewalk. Definitely one that would better with less lipstick and the look of urban main floor townhome units

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Edmonton?

[urbandreamer]

I wish they'd tear down that tacky Libeskind addition. I met the son of the man who approved this design and he said he hated it, and his dad realized it was a mistake as soon as he saw the construction specs.

Replace it with an Allison Brooks Architects design: she's Canadian, has excellent taste complimenting new with old, and generally would design something timeless.

I think they want the steps to keep the homeless away and the overhang is because the snow and rain lands on patrons.

[J.OT13]

I absolutely hate that thing as well. It completely overtakes the heritage section and looks horrible all around. The entrance as it exists looks like a tertiary entrance or emergency exit.