scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Those grey and black stripes are truly vile.
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Regency Yorkville (Plazacorp/HiRise, 18s, Turner Fleischer) COMPLETE
ganjavih
Senior Member
A little cluttered but it's turning out a lot better than expected.
Bogtrotter
Senior Member
I don't mind it at all actually- and it's not a glass box. Much better than the renders suggested.
sam95ta1
New Member
Great job at sreet level,love the black and grey.Nice to see they didnt cheap out and just slap together some sheets of glass.
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
I agree with US when he calls it "vaguely historicist" but I can't put my finger on *what* exactly it's supposed to be. The main thing it looks like to me is a smorgasbord of the worst of the 80s...therefore, I'll christen its style Dog's Breakfast Clubbism.
simply Dan
Active Member
What a vile monster - an architectural frankenstein!
bgd
New Member
I really enjoy the morphology of this building: the podium creates a great street wall.
yin_yang
Active Member
damn, you can really tell now that this place is going to be pretty lux...the base finishes look incredible! too bad the tower sucks...yorkville will live with it, as long as not too many similar, beige, depressing buildings pop up.
caltrane74
Senior Member
Not all Bad!! what else can I say.
TrickyRicky
Senior Member
I have no comment on the ornament but let's look at the bigger picture overall comparison of this project relative to some of the other condo areas in the city. In my opinion this is a vastly more desirable project in terms of form, context and execution than 90 percent of what is being built.
adma
Superstar
Seeing it today; well, a little fussy and disjointed, but in some weird way that might make it (at least for me in a certain frame of mind) *more* likeable than the more "correct" 1 St. Thomas. And in that great 80s retro-PoMo tradition, it looks like it stepped out of some 30s Italy urban remediation scheme. Maybe that's good, maybe that's bad. Who cares...
Irishmonk
Senior Member
The podium has the right scale but the "tower" is stumpy and very ungainly. On the Hume scale I would put this closer to a conditional pass rather than This-is-the-end-of-Toronto. (The condition being that the retail component turns out well.)
CDL.TO
Moderator
And I christen thee: "The Copiously Corniced Chichi Construction"
I don't love it but I prefer it to Stern. Seriously. Call me crazy.
This seems to have been thought through a bit more but unfortunately with some major errors in detail, like the relationship between the base and tower. Stern just looks like it's trying to be a wedding cake... an arch here, some fake wrought iron there, and plenty of little holes and vents all over the place. I'd like to take Regency and place it on Stern's base.
It kind of reminds me of the Canada Life Campus.
I don't love it but I prefer it to Stern. Seriously. Call me crazy.
This seems to have been thought through a bit more but unfortunately with some major errors in detail, like the relationship between the base and tower. Stern just looks like it's trying to be a wedding cake... an arch here, some fake wrought iron there, and plenty of little holes and vents all over the place. I'd like to take Regency and place it on Stern's base.
It kind of reminds me of the Canada Life Campus.
condovo
Senior Member
The Copiously Corniced Chichi Construction crassly conceived for clawing classless conspicuous consumers.
yyzer
Senior Member
from today's Globe, looks like first occupancy will be in April...
MONDO CONDO: THE REGENCY
Who's moving into these mansions in the sky? (Strictly entre nous)
DEIRDRE KELLY
February 9, 2008
The Regency may have been the first of the multimillion-dollar condo projects to break ground in Yorkville, but it has been among the last to get off the ground.
In the four years since earmarking the corner of Yorkville and Bay for its development, the Regency has been beaten to the finish line by One St. Thomas and the Hazelton, to name just two neighbouring properties with similarly stratospheric price tags, but built in less time.
Cocktail-party chatter had it that the Regency was having trouble securing buyers for units priced between $3-million and $7-million, or worse, that developers Plazacorp and Hi-Rise Inc. had run out of money.
"Wrong," declares Shellianne Bedder.
The Regency's ebullient marketing director also happens to be married to Warren Green, chief executive officer of Hi-Rise. Ms. Bedder handled all the sales herself, negotiating them from her 10,000-square-foot Forest Hill home.
"The building is now more than 90-per-cent sold out, and the first occupants are moving in as of April," she says.
But residents were expected to have moved in well before now. What happened?
"Clients were demanding more square footage, and each time they did, we had to go back to the drawing board," Mr. Green says.
Built in the New York art deco style by Peter Turner of Turner Fleischer Architects, the Regency was originally conceived as a building with 144 units.
Today, the 19-storey structure has only 58 units, some encompassing whole floors and boasting about 6,000 square feet. Every one comes with a butler supplied by the building as part of its package to purchasers.
"These are mansions in the sky," Ms. Bedder says. "Each of them has been custom-made to the client's specifications. ... When you don't have repetition in a building's design, the cost not only goes up, the time it takes to build them increases also."
So who exactly is moving in?
Ms. Bedder and Mr. Green signed confidentiality agreements with their deep-pocketed clients to ensure that their identities are not revealed, so they aren't talking.
But sources confirm that one of the buyers is Mount Sinai Hospital endocrinologist Paul Walfish, named to the Order of Canada in 1990, and a member of Toronto's Tanenbaum family.
Other purchasers reputedly include a Saudi prince, a prominent politician in the government of Italy, a London-based financier and couple of Canadian celebrities.
As well, it is said that leading British lingerie label Agent Provocateur, founded in 1994 by Serena Rees and Joseph Corré, the only child of trendsetters Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, is eyeing commercial space on the Regency's ground floor, with views onto Bay.
The world's leading luxury intimate-apparel brand is the top-drawer choice of Posh Spice, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue.
"I'm superstitious," Ms. Bedder says. "They haven't moved in yet, so I'm not confirming a thing."
MONDO CONDO: THE REGENCY
Who's moving into these mansions in the sky? (Strictly entre nous)
DEIRDRE KELLY
February 9, 2008
The Regency may have been the first of the multimillion-dollar condo projects to break ground in Yorkville, but it has been among the last to get off the ground.
In the four years since earmarking the corner of Yorkville and Bay for its development, the Regency has been beaten to the finish line by One St. Thomas and the Hazelton, to name just two neighbouring properties with similarly stratospheric price tags, but built in less time.
Cocktail-party chatter had it that the Regency was having trouble securing buyers for units priced between $3-million and $7-million, or worse, that developers Plazacorp and Hi-Rise Inc. had run out of money.
"Wrong," declares Shellianne Bedder.
The Regency's ebullient marketing director also happens to be married to Warren Green, chief executive officer of Hi-Rise. Ms. Bedder handled all the sales herself, negotiating them from her 10,000-square-foot Forest Hill home.
"The building is now more than 90-per-cent sold out, and the first occupants are moving in as of April," she says.
But residents were expected to have moved in well before now. What happened?
"Clients were demanding more square footage, and each time they did, we had to go back to the drawing board," Mr. Green says.
Built in the New York art deco style by Peter Turner of Turner Fleischer Architects, the Regency was originally conceived as a building with 144 units.
Today, the 19-storey structure has only 58 units, some encompassing whole floors and boasting about 6,000 square feet. Every one comes with a butler supplied by the building as part of its package to purchasers.
"These are mansions in the sky," Ms. Bedder says. "Each of them has been custom-made to the client's specifications. ... When you don't have repetition in a building's design, the cost not only goes up, the time it takes to build them increases also."
So who exactly is moving in?
Ms. Bedder and Mr. Green signed confidentiality agreements with their deep-pocketed clients to ensure that their identities are not revealed, so they aren't talking.
But sources confirm that one of the buyers is Mount Sinai Hospital endocrinologist Paul Walfish, named to the Order of Canada in 1990, and a member of Toronto's Tanenbaum family.
Other purchasers reputedly include a Saudi prince, a prominent politician in the government of Italy, a London-based financier and couple of Canadian celebrities.
As well, it is said that leading British lingerie label Agent Provocateur, founded in 1994 by Serena Rees and Joseph Corré, the only child of trendsetters Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, is eyeing commercial space on the Regency's ground floor, with views onto Bay.
The world's leading luxury intimate-apparel brand is the top-drawer choice of Posh Spice, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue.
"I'm superstitious," Ms. Bedder says. "They haven't moved in yet, so I'm not confirming a thing."