Toronto 976 College Street | 24.83m | 6s | Springboard | McCallum Sather

[AlbertC]

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976 COLLEGE ST​

To construct a new six-storey apartment dwelling (with one mechanical penthouse above) containing 19 affordable dwelling units with a covered and roof terrace on sixth floor.

 

[Paclo]

Current site:

 

[rdaner]

This is an Assembly project. Interesting take on the 2 stairway issue.

 

[Towered]

Ground needs a re-do. Also NEEDS RETAIL.

 

[interchange42]

Ground needs a re-do. Also NEEDS RETAIL.

Second needs a re-do. Also NEEDS SOMETHING, ANYTHING remotely appealing applied to its exterior.

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[PMT]

 

[LUVIT!]

Looks like 'K-Car' architecture

 

[neuhaus]

I initially didn’t think this was that bad of a building until I realized that the wide part of the building is facing College Street.
It’s a very skinny site, so fitting retail could be a challenge. If this is developed by a non-profit organization housing and supporting the developmentally-challenged, maybe integrating a small retail space that will employ them would be ideal and commendable.
The blank wall portion with a couple of service doors at grade fronting College St is very unfortunate, and a blank canvas for graffiti.
Having the building setback on the west side relates to the condo building across Rusholme, but other than that it’s a huge tall slab with very little articulation and consideration to the 3-storey buildings to the east that line College St.
The terracotta-toned metal and wood slatted cladding on the first two floors is a nice warm addition to the corrugated metal cladding above which I have a fear will look awful and cheap in its execution.

I understand it is an affordable rental units for the developmentally-challenged, but why make it so small and poorly designed? There is barely any living room space (other than the accessible unit on the east side), and feels more like a place for the homeless or student dorms (which has amenity spaces to make up for it).