So there was a bit of a surprise public meeting on this on Monday evening at Metro Hall, with this project being presented before the two that were listed on Councillor Cressy's website (543 Richmond West and 170 Spadina). A bit of a mix-up that it wasn't announced far and wide.
Anyway, this is the surface parking lot directly east of the 57-storey Westbank/Allied proposal at 19 Duncan. It goes through to Pearl. The design is by Kirkor, and we will have images of it for you later today in a new dataBase entry and in a front page story, but I can tell you now that this is, for my money, Kirkor's most impressive building in years, which in my case means that this tops the Hullmark Centre. The design in this case is in a style that not everyone is a fan of: brutalism. There are some of you out there, and I certainly am a fan, and I believe that people are going to be pleasantly surprised by this building, and some will be quite excited.
For now I can tell you that the plans are for 56 storeys, then mixed in with the mechanical levels up top there will be a partial floor "skygarden". Not sure yet if we will count that floor as a 57th floor, but for the meantime until we see more explicit plans, no.
Heights are 563 feet/171.6m to the skygarden floor, and 587 feet/179 metres to the top of the mechanical penthouse. The skygarden height is being put forward to the City as it's the top of the walls, with the mechanical roof being hidden behind it from most vantage points. The City will care about that height, while we will keep track of the mechanical penthouse roof height for our purposes as it is the top of the structure.
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