I actually prefer the newer rendering to the previous mis-stacked boxes. They're common in designs around the world and I fully anticipate us looking back in a few decades thinking 'what on Earth were we thinking? Why did we permit those to be built?'
Agreed. I think the newer rendering is much better than
the old one. The original design had too many lines going in too many different different directions.
New condo tests the height of fashion on Toronto’s Golden Mile
JOHN BENTLEY MAYS
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Aug. 23 2012, 11:08 AM EDT
Last updated Thursday, Aug. 23 2012, 11:21 AM EDT
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Strike out in any direction from the Toronto intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets and you find yourself in a little world unto itself. A little way north and east is quiet and respectable Rosedale. Immediately west of the crossroads, along Bloor West, is touristy Yorkville and the crowded “Mink Mile” of sleek upmarket shops. And just to the south lies an elderly, low-rise strip of gadget stores, pizzerias and such that has managed to stay seedy despite the best efforts of the gentrifiers.
A spot at the centre of such urban variety (and the site of a key nexus in the subway system) should have architecture brim-full of sophisticated energy and visual imagination. Yonge and Bloor, however, has not been lucky in the artistic department. The office blocks on the northwest and northeast corners are desperately dull, and the looming concrete carcass of the Bay department store is an aesthetic calamity that should never have been allowed to happen.
But potentially significant things are afoot. There’s the tall mixed-use building, called One Bloor East, now under construction on the southeast corner, for instance. If it lives up to its renderings, this graceful tower by Toronto architect David Pontarini will have a romantically sculpted glass skin that sets it apart sharply from the city’s more usual, sober-sided modernist condo stacks. Mr. Pontarini’s dramatic work could be just the kind of architectural exclamation point the place has long needed.
Then there’s the 83-storey skyscraper that Morguard Investments Ltd. would like to raise over the deluxe Holt Renfrew clothing emporium, a few steps west of Yonge and Bloor.
Desperately dull and aesthetic calamity are the exact terms I would use to describe the current corner of Yonge and Bloor.
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50 bloor, atop our list of Canada's 50 tallest proposals!
and I'm real excited to see that MASSIVE podium. It looks very impressive. Multi-use, huge, glass exterior exposing the interiors! might be a pure win...
This could end up being our Time Warner Centre shopping mall!
What chance does 50 bloor have in happening? I really hope it does!
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What chance does 50 bloor have in happening? I really hope it does!
About 99.99%. Although the design and height may change. Personally I'd like to see it go back to the drawing board. It has a great podium but the tower itself is a little dull for 83 floors of millionaires homes.
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