TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread - Page 53

JanneClaude · #1 Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 3:11 PM**

http://cormier.bassoburo.com/project/300-front-street/

Urban landscape for a 58-storey luxury condo tower

We collaborated on the urban landscape surrounding a new condominium tower in the monumental centre of Toronto, located at the foot of the CN tower and Rogers Centre (formerly known as the SkyDome) and in the midst of the city’s burgeoning International Film Festival district. To give the building a signature presence, we inscribed its address – 300 – directly into the design. The roadways and sidewalks of the site make up the digits, clearly visible from the high vantage points in the nearby surroundings.

Like the logo on a Fendi purse, the site-integrated icon is woven through with an intricate network of paving. A picturesquely layered crisscross of paths, luxuriant vegetation, and a sprinkling of street trees evoke the atmosphere of a park on the scale of a garden and undermine the formal order of city codes and regulations. Accessible to condominium owners and neighbourhood residents alike, the park serves as a link between private and public zones in the metropolis.

koops65 · #2 Posted **Sep 24, 2007, 6:12 PM**

300 Front St. looks like it will have quite an impact, more than I originally thought. Any news on 151 Front St. or on Trump? Anything new on 1 Bloor, Shangri-La, Four Seasons or L Tower?

Canuck · #3 Posted **Sep 24, 2007, 8:21 PM**

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300 Front St. looks like it will have quite an impact, more than I originally thought. Any news on 151 Front St. or on Trump? Anything new on 1 Bloor, Shangri-La, Four Seasons or L Tower?

Trump is starting excavation (see picture a few posts up).
151 Front has no direct news, but the office market is tight right now indicating more office construction is possible.
1 Bloor has signs up advertising an upcoming sales centre.
Shangri-La is excavating an old building on their site. Will take a couple of weeks to photograph, dig up, and remove.
Four Seasons and L Tower have no direct news, but sales have been strong at both so we should be hearing some good things in the near future.

Canuck · #4 Posted **Sep 24, 2007, 8:22 PM**

Double post

koops65 · #5 Posted **Sep 24, 2007, 10:56 PM**

Thanks for the info Canuck. Remember Caltrane 74 had a survey a while back about whether Trump or Four Seasons would begin construction first? Who voted for FS? Also sad to hear CN Tower has been dethroned, but you'll get ZERO speculation form me about Toronto having a WTB again in the future...

caltrane74 · #6 Posted **Sep 25, 2007, 7:04 PM**

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. Remember Caltrane 74 had a survey a while back about whether Trump or Four Seasons would begin construction first? Who voted for FS? .

That survey was partly in "jest" as Trump has taken so long to break ground.

F/S will begin construction by spring or before spring of next year, I have little doubt.

caltrane74 · #7 Posted **Sep 26, 2007, 1:52 PM**

College Park 3 has been approved.

borgo100 · #8 Posted **Sep 27, 2007, 12:59 AM**

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College Park 3 has been approved.

and?

Skorji · #9 Posted **Sep 27, 2007, 1:42 PM**

According to the Urban Toronto forum there doesn't appear to be any more detail at this point.

Jared · #10 Posted **Sep 27, 2007, 6:59 PM**

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College Park 3 has been approved.

at what height?

caltrane74 · #11 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 2:34 PM**

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at what height?

The city and the developer have been sworn to secrecy by the OMB regarding the details of the agreement.

We'll find out eventually, I guess.

JanneClaude · #12 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 1:50 AM**

New renderings from the condo guide. I like it, and looks like an improvement over the previous design. The base does indeed look reminiscent of Bell Lightbox.

caltrane74 · #13 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 8:12 PM**

The Latest Rendering... 1 Bloor East

caltrane74 · #14 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:15 PM**

The steel has been added to the ground floor levels of the Bay Adelaide Centre

Maldive · #15 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:35 PM**

Isn't great to live in a city... where folks actually want to live in the city??

borgo100 · #16 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 1:16 AM**

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Isn't great to live in a city... where folks actually want to live in the city??

is that sarcasm? or are you for real?, is'nt the city poor and has crappy transit and other stuff

Big Daddy · #17 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 1:54 AM**

With respect to the 1 Bloor Project - I liked the original design much much better. This new design is simply another boring Toronto box - I don’t see anything inspiring about the architecture of this building at all. Yah yah yah so its taller than some of the others – big deal, its boring. I dont blame the Architect of course, his design skills are closly governed by the meatheads at city hall who don’t want to see anything dramatic in this city and by the jerks who provide the financing in this boxville, who likewise refuse to entertain anything that doesn’t look like everything else.

koops65 · #18 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 3:20 AM**

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is that sarcasm? or are you for real?, is'nt the city poor and has crappy transit and other stuff

I would argue that everyone living in any particular city, including Toronto, has their own view on how 'great' the city is. An unemployed bum living on the street might feel that its a crappy city, while a multi-millionaire living in his condo in the sky might feel on top of the world. Or maybe their feelings might be reversed. Its all in the eye of the beholder...

Yue Yi · #19 Posted **Oct 6, 2007, 2:43 AM**

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With respect to the 1 Bloor Project - I liked the original design much much better. This new design is simply another boring Toronto box - I don’t see anything inspiring about the architecture of this building at all. Yah yah yah so its taller than some of the others – big deal, its boring. I dont blame the Architect of course, his design skills are closly governed by the meatheads at city hall who don’t want to see anything dramatic in this city and by the jerks who provide the financing in this boxville, who likewise refuse to entertain anything that doesn’t look like everything else.

I liked the first design for 1 Bloor Street East but the new one is much much better! I dont know how City Hall would have anything to do with the change?

All I do know is with the quality of architecture and urban design we see on this thread, it is easy to see why Toronto has one of the most progressive planning departments of any city I know.

Jackhammer · #20 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 3:13 PM**

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is that sarcasm? or are you for real?, is'nt the city poor and has crappy transit and other stuff

You're kidding right?

Downtown Toronto has more life than most cities in the world and is certainly second only to New York from a North American perspective.

The city may be under financial pressure and the transit system over loaded. However, it is quite obvious there is a draw to downtown life that most cities would envy.