Oakville Carding House | 22.3m | 5s | Mattamy Homes | Q4A

[Paclo]

Carding House, AKA "North Preserve, Block 300": a proposed 5-storey mixed-use condo & commercial building and 3 & 3-storey townhouse blocks designed by Q4 Architects for Mattamy Homes on the northwest corner of Carding Mill Trail and North Park Boulevard, south of Ironside Drive in Oakville's Preserve neighbourhood.

Rendering from the project website:

Site Plan from the 3rd submission:

 

[Branden Simon]

Construction is underway with the Crane up @Paclo @interchange42

This my drone photo is from two months ago and didn’t post that until today.

 

[KAR246]

It's now topped off with external features well underway. This was built pretty quick.

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[Edward Skira]

Interesting neighbourhood. Instead of strip malls on Dundas they scattered small scale retail into the neighbourhood. Old school urbanism. I like.

Not part of this project but nearby.

 

[KAR246]

Yeah a lot of the North Oakville commercial is mixed use instead of strip plazas.

Also, @Paclo, looks like the crane is down for this one.

 

[junctionist]

The bar for urbanism tends to be quite low in the 905, but Oakville is quietly pulling far ahead from of its peers. Some of these streets are precisely what people here have called for for decades with density, a mix of uses, a mix of building styles, and landscaping.

 

[KAR246]

The bar for urbanism tends to be quite low in the 905, but Oakville is quietly pulling far ahead from of its peers.

It is all sprawl though which isn't great... But the mixed use is definitely nice.

 

[innsertnamehere]

It is all sprawl though which isn't great... But the mixed use is definitely nice.

I mean at what density does it stop being "sprawl"? It's mixed-use 5-storey apartment block surrounded by townhouses. How is that sprawling?

 

[KAR246]

I mean at what density does it stop being "sprawl"? It's mixed-use 5-storey apartment block surrounded by townhouses. How is that sprawling?

The location of it is pretty remote though, its far from any GO Station, public highway, or even good transit service for that matter.

 

[KAR246]

Here is a photo from a recent UT article:

 

[KAR246]

Looks very close to being complete, workers doing interior work and landscaping now:

Townhomes look fully complete (on the left):

 

[KAR246]

Complete now, photos from today:

Apartment building on the left, townhomes (also part of this development) on the right.

The townhomes again:

This area will always be weird to me, a bunch of mixed use midrises and townhomes surrounded by (majority) single family home suburbia... If nearly all of those retail units weren't just barbers and medical related things, it would be much more pleasant