Toronto South Detention Centre (132 Horner Ave, MCSCS, 8s, Zeidler)

[adHominem]

So, if it looks "monstrous", it's meant to be so. 'Twas ever so, as architectural historians and Foucaultists will tell you.

"Foucauldians", if you please. But yes. What good is a threat if it isn't menacing?

 

[adma]

"Foucaultists" sounds more menacing.

 

[Jonny5]

I am on the GO train right now passing through Willowbrook.
I can't express properly how HUGE this building is. It's ridiculous! The complex is just MASSIVE! It puts the complex in "Prison-Industrial-Complex"
It just takes over the entire view north of the GO yard.
It's like the death star. I can't believe only 1,650 prisoners will be here. I'm sure that's the design capacity, but I suspect, like all prisons, it will actually house many more. Add in the guards and service workers, there will be thousands working and living in this space.

EDIT: I encourage everyone to come see this place for themselves, but if you can't, the size of this place resembles the Oakville Ford plant. No, it's not quite as big, but it is the same scale of building. It dominates the surroundings.

 

[drum118]

July 21

 

[Urban Shocker]

A couple of us passed by on the GO train on Saturday, after our state visit to Mississauga for their Pride celebrations, and we were transfixed with horror.

 

[jje1000]

It certainly looks imposing. Maybe it could be our version of the Bastille.

 

[Edward Skira]

I think mall when I see drum's latest photos.

 

[ShonTron]

Yeah, it looks much like the a bulked-up, supersized, mutated version of the last generation of new Bay stores like those at Erin Mills, Mapleview, and Promenade.

This is a provincial jail so it will house common criminals (those with sentences of less than 2 years) and remand prisioners (who, having not been convicted for whatever crime(s) they were charged with, are legally innocent).

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

Yeah, it looks much like the a bulked-up, supersized, mutated version of the last generation of new Bay stores like those at Erin Mills, Mapleview, and Promenade.

This is a provincial jail so it will house common criminals (those with sentences of less than 2 years) and remand prisioners (who, having not been convicted for whatever crime(s) they were charged with, are legally innocent).

Whatever else it is, it HAS to be a huge step up from the awful, awful Don Jail. That place is a dump, and from the recent newspaper spread (Star? G&M?) it's even worse inside than out. When does the new jail go live and the Don come down?

 

[drum118]

Aug 11
The building been used by Ellis Don is schedule to come down in the coming weeks as Aug 12 is their last day there.

The big crawlers used to lift the precast into place have left the site. Still a fair amount of precast to go up.

 

[urbandreamer]

Project details: http://www.stephenson-eng.com/projects/correctional/tsdc.html

Architect
Zeidler Roberts Partnership Architects

Project Statistics

A Design-Build-Finance & Maintain (DBFM) project for Infrastructure Ontario.
Detention Centre located in Etobicoke, Ontario.
920 inmate cells.
Total area of 846,000 square feet.
Includes 3-7 storey detention towers, administration building, food and laundry building, Central Utilities Plant, and an Intermittent Centre.

 

[vegeta_skyline]

This thing is a precast lovers paradise.

 

[adma]

Well, it's Zeidler. Explains the McMasterness of it all.

 

[ShonTron]

Any idea there will be a public visit of the new jail before it takes its first prisoners? How about a slumber party, like the new jail in Flint shown in Roger & Me? (and a potential fund raiser/PR exercise)

 

[adma]

Doors Open next year? (A perfect pendant to various Don Jail Doors Open appearances)