Biggest Cityplace Tour Ever!

The photos were all taken today (September 18, 2011) They are arranged into the following categories:

1) The People
2) The Buildings
3) The Spaces

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1) The People

Shirts/Skins game anyone?




Followed by a drink?




















Or a nice walk
















Up next:

The Buildings

The Buildings:

Panorama from the rooftop pool/patio at Luna


Luna Vista


Luna Vista on the left, Montage and CN Tower in the centre and Luna on the right


The Fort York Blvd. streetscape in front of Luna looking towards Parade


Spadina Avenue looking towards HVE on the left, N1 centre, and Neo on the right


The older Cityplace buildings, Matrix and Optima podium










Neo on the left, Montage, Luna Vista, Parade


Harbour View Estates


HVE, Neo, Montage, Luna


The Super Club


Entrance to one of the HVE towers


Retail along Bremner


More Coming Soon




Retail along Spadina, in the base of Neo




Looking up at Montage


Spa open in the base of Luna


More retail space along Spadina in the base of N1/N2


Parade I and II with Luna, Montage and the CN Tower in the background


Toronto community housing


The base of Parade I, looks like there is quite a bit of retail space


The centre courtyard of Parade


Looking up towards where the bridge will connect both Parade towers


Actors Network Film Studio has opened up in one of the ground floor units in Parade




A nice little art gallery also open in the base of Parade

And finally,

3) The Spaces

The 2nd Floor rooftop patio in Luna/Luna Vista


Looking down at Canoe Landing/Fort York Blvd.




Some shots from the courtyard at Harbour View Estates










The Northern Linear Park


The bridge that will connect Cityplace to the neighbourhoods to the North


This is the land reserved for a Catholic and Public School, Day care, and Community Centre, as well as a yet to be announced condo


N1/N2 Courtyard


Canoe Landing










Construction of Quartz/Spectra, 2 new phases of Cityplace

Nice Pictures.

Early, in the Spring,after the snow had melted, 2 individuals had posted, on another thread, pictures & links to a video on 'You Tube' of 'dog phoo' littering sidewalks and making it extremely unpleasant for the residents to walk by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdA4knRkQw

KA1 said:

Nice Pictures.

Early, in the Spring,after the snow had melted, 2 individuals had posted, on another thread, pictures & links to a video on 'You Tube' of 'dog phoo' littering sidewalks and making it extremely unpleasant for the residents to walk by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdA4knRkQw

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Yup... Seems like the City has been on top of the situation. It hasn't been an issue at all this summer. More garbage bins have also been put in along the Linear Park and around Canoe Landing, thanks to the Resident's Association.

CityPlace looks a whole lot better since I last cycled around there a few years ago, and I agree with many who have stated the buildings continue to improve. Nicely done, thanks for posting all those great pictures.

Great photo-tour! This is by far NO St Jamestown and will never be!

good job.. thank you.

Thanks for the tour. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

It's great that we no longer have drive so far to soak up this wonderful suburban tower in the park experience.

Cityplace has contributed mightily to waterfront skyline photo ops but nothing here looks remotely like it is part of downtown Toronto. The biggest lost city-building opportunity to date (though we have West Donlands, East Bayfront, Portlands etc."to look forward to".)

I'm baffled that so many planners, so many architects, so many landscape architects, so many developers are out there with so many egg-heads cashing their paychecks.... and it's not possible to create anything remotely resembling a welcoming new downtown city neighbourhood... human scale, well-articulated built forms with mixed uses at grade (not monolithic podiums), towers set back to pay the bills of course.

Toronto's best neighbourhoods obviously evolved over time into the eclectic, hodge-podge of uses, textures, suprises and general urban mayhem that makes them so inviting and entertaining to visit (or live in).

I just can't imagine the podiums of Fort York Blvd. miraculously evolving into anything remotely resembling an animated, exciting downtown neighbourhood in the next 100 years. I don't think some Pernod and Stella umbrellas and a few seasonal flower boxes will encourage me to welcome Cityplace to my Toronto.

Nice tour I enjoyed it!

Although you left out the aA designed OPTIMA, and the sleek lines of its base .

amazing pics...... i remember when the whole area was grass, weeds and dirt.... finally its build up into something worth while.

kram74 said:

amazing pics...... i remember when the whole area was grass, weeds and dirt.... finally its build up into something worth while.

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It's even better now. Those pictures are from 2 summers ago. If I buy a decent camera this summer, I'll do an updated tour of the area and post it on UT.