TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[Travis007]

1Thousand Bay Street, Toronto

Gorgeous scale models by Myles Burke on Twitter of this stunning project:

http://twitter.com/#!/myles_burke

[Travis007]

Centrium, North York City Centre, Toronto. 29 & 15 st

Construction about to begin.

[Travis007]

2150 Lawrence Avenue East, Scarborg, Toronto. 3 x 19 Storeys

http://2150condos.com/ Link via Klb96 on UrbanToronto

[Travis007]

Toronto Pan-Am Games Athlete's Village

Nice video from the Toronto Sun.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/06...m-dreams-in-to

http://www.toronto2015.org/assets/fi...brochure_E.pdf

[Travis007]

The second public meeting for Lanterra's massive North St. Jamestown meeting was last night.

TheTorontoBlog gives a good break down of the proposed buildings, with photo tour of existing properties.

http://thetorontoblog.com/2011/11/07...eting-tonight/

4-tower condo proposal for North St James Town faces 2nd public feedback meeting tonight

07 Nov 2011

The meeting, the second to be held this year, will give the public an opportunity to hear revised plans for the massive condo project that Lanterra Developments has proposed for three blocks of a long wedge-shaped area bounded by Bloor, Parliament, Howard and Sherbourne Streets. In a rezoning application filed with the City on August 25 2010, Lanterra outlined bold development plans that would revitalize three separate blocks of land at the northern perimeter of the St James Town district with four towers designed by Peter Clewes of Toronto’s architectsAlliance.

Block 1: Northeast corner of Sherbourne and Howard Streets

For this area, the developer proposed a 390-unit condo complex featuring a 50-storey tower, 7-storey podium and 5 levels of underground parking with 288 spaces. The tower would rise next to the Anson Jones House, a Queen Anne-style heritage building designed by Edmund Burke that sits on the corner of Sherbourne and Howard at 603 Sherbourne. The podium would include retail space along Sherbourne Street, while a 3-story mixed use building located along Howard Street would be linked to the complex.

Block 2: Glen Road between Howard and Bloor Streets

The west side of this leafy one-block-long section of Glen Road is noteworthy for six semidetached brick houses which have been boarded and bricked up for decades. Under Lanterra’s proposal, these homes would be restored for residential use, though rear portions of the buildings would be demolished to allow for construction of a 5-storey apartment building with 41 units along with 15 above-ground parking spots and 17 below-ground spaces.

Block 3: From Edgedale Road to Parliament Street

This long stretch of land between Howard and Bloor Streets would feature three condo towers on the eastern end of the property along with a 2-storey amenity and service building at the site’s southwest corner at Edgedale and Howard. The west tower would be 56 storeys tall with 630 units; the middle tower would be 46 floors with 425 units, and the east tower would rise 53 stories and contain 348 units. The complex would have 5 levels of underground parking with 869 spaces. A heritage building at 76 Howard Street would have to be demolished to make way for the three skyscrapers.

[Travis007]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle2232087/

West Coast builder has big Toronto plans

JOHN BENTLEY MAYS | Columnist profile | E-mail
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 12:46PM EST

With the construction of his $504-million Living Shangri-La scheduled to top off in December, and with the grand opening of this luxury hotel-condominium complex on track for August, 2012, Vancouver tall-building developer Ian Gillespie is well on his way to putting down deep roots on Toronto’s lower University Avenue.

Two Toronto condominium schemes are coming up right behind Shangri-La, he told me recently. He was short on details – understandably, since both projects are still in very early stages of development – but he did say that his favoured architect for one of the two is Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels.

But a powerful part of BIG’s appeal is the firm’s proven ability to deliver large-scale designs that satisfy the demands of the real-estate industry while fully embodying Mr. Ingels’s commitments to city-building and high artistic standards. Toronto would probably be fortunate to get a Westbank building by this rising star in the architectural firmament.

“Bringing Bjarke in to do a building, if we’re able to put this all together, is going to open people’s eyes in Toronto to a world of possibilities,” he told me. “It will be a new form of development, not something anyone has ever seen before. When you see it you’ll go: Wow!”

[caltrane74]

Lots of stuff on the go.

[Travis007]

1844 Bloor Street West, High Park, Toronto

http://1844bloorstreetwest.com/FILES...bloor_st_w.pdf

[Travis007]

St. Helen's Ave. and Whytock Ave, Aragon Properties, RAW Design, 9 storeys

Rendering from Urbanation:

[Travis007]

Lawrence Heights Redevelopment, Toronto

Massing study drawings from & Co Architects:

http://www.andco.com/

[Travis007]

7 Heath Street East, Toronto, 13s, & Co Architects

http://www.andco.com

[Travis007]

Scale model of the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games Athlete's Village:

[Travis007]

Eighty8 (88 Sheppard Ave East), North York, Toronto, 35 storeys

Rendering posted by Ed007Toronto on UrbanToronto:

[isaidso]

Notice that they're planning a soccer field, not a football or baseball field. Canadian cultural norms are in steep decline in Toronto. Immigrant culture is what dominates. I suppose that's to be expected in a city with 50% foreign born, but it does feel like I'm in a foreign country sometimes.

[Travis007]

Key West Condos, Humber Bay Shores, Etobicoke, Toronto

http://www.keywesttorontocondo.com/

[Travis007]

One Eleven Bathurst, Toronto

Many renderings found here.

[Nick.]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Notice that they're planning a soccer field, not a football or baseball field. Canadian cultural norms are in steep decline in Toronto. Immigrant culture is what dominates. I suppose that's to be expected in a city with 50% foreign born, but it does feel like I'm in a foreign country sometimes.

ahahahaaha

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Notice that they're planning a soccer field, not a football or baseball field. Canadian cultural norms are in steep decline in Toronto. Immigrant culture is what dominates. I suppose that's to be expected in a city with 50% foreign born, but it does feel like I'm in a foreign country sometimes.

Toronto is the next Tokyo!

I've been telling you guys that for years, but everyone just makes a joke about it. - This is a part of the reason why the rest of Canada and to a certain but much lesser extent the United States hates Toronto, so much. We are different than the rest, and the difference is becoming even more seen, from day to day.

[Vertigo3000]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Notice that they're planning a soccer field, not a football or baseball field. Canadian cultural norms are in steep decline in Toronto. Immigrant culture is what dominates. I suppose that's to be expected in a city with 50% foreign born, but it does feel like I'm in a foreign country sometimes.

There are basket ball courts

[rapid_business]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Toronto is the next Tokyo!

I've been telling you guys that for years, but everyone just makes a joke about it. - This is a part of the reason why the rest of Canada and to a certain but much lesser extent the United States hates Toronto, so much. We are different than the rest, and the difference is becoming even more seen, from day to day.

Yeah, I don't think the multiculturalism is why Toronto is disliked in other parts of the country. Every major Canadian city has been going through multicultural shift over the past 30 years. Not to the same degree, but it is all relative.