Biggest Cityplace Tour Ever!

[Tuscani01]

The photos were all taken today (September 18, 2011) They are arranged into the following categories:

1) The People
2) The Buildings
3) The Spaces

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1) The People

Shirts/Skins game anyone?

Followed by a drink?

Or a nice walk

Up next:

The Buildings

 

[Tuscani01]

The Buildings:

Panorama from the rooftop pool/patio at Luna

Luna Vista

Luna Vista on the left, Montage and CN Tower in the centre and Luna on the right

The Fort York Blvd. streetscape in front of Luna looking towards Parade

Spadina Avenue looking towards HVE on the left, N1 centre, and Neo on the right

The older Cityplace buildings, Matrix and Optima podium

Neo on the left, Montage, Luna Vista, Parade

Harbour View Estates

HVE, Neo, Montage, Luna

The Super Club

Entrance to one of the HVE towers

Retail along Bremner

More Coming Soon

Retail along Spadina, in the base of Neo

Looking up at Montage

Spa open in the base of Luna

More retail space along Spadina in the base of N1/N2

Parade I and II with Luna, Montage and the CN Tower in the background

Toronto community housing

The base of Parade I, looks like there is quite a bit of retail space

The centre courtyard of Parade

Looking up towards where the bridge will connect both Parade towers

Actors Network Film Studio has opened up in one of the ground floor units in Parade

A nice little art gallery also open in the base of Parade

 

[Tuscani01]

And finally,

3) The Spaces

The 2nd Floor rooftop patio in Luna/Luna Vista

Looking down at Canoe Landing/Fort York Blvd.

Some shots from the courtyard at Harbour View Estates

The Northern Linear Park

The bridge that will connect Cityplace to the neighbourhoods to the North

This is the land reserved for a Catholic and Public School, Day care, and Community Centre, as well as a yet to be announced condo

N1/N2 Courtyard

Canoe Landing

Construction of Quartz/Spectra, 2 new phases of Cityplace

 

[KA1]

Nice Pictures.

Early, in the Spring,after the snow had melted, 2 individuals had posted, on another thread, pictures & links to a video on 'You Tube' of 'dog phoo' littering sidewalks and making it extremely unpleasant for the residents to walk by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdA4knRkQw

 

[Tuscani01]

Nice Pictures.

Early, in the Spring,after the snow had melted, 2 individuals had posted, on another thread, pictures & links to a video on 'You Tube' of 'dog phoo' littering sidewalks and making it extremely unpleasant for the residents to walk by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdA4knRkQw

Yup... Seems like the City has been on top of the situation. It hasn't been an issue at all this summer. More garbage bins have also been put in along the Linear Park and around Canoe Landing, thanks to the Resident's Association.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

CityPlace looks a whole lot better since I last cycled around there a few years ago, and I agree with many who have stated the buildings continue to improve. Nicely done, thanks for posting all those great pictures.

 

[DC83]

Great photo-tour! This is by far NO St Jamestown and will never be!

 

[lightarchitect]

good job.. thank you.

 

[TheProfessor]

Thanks for the tour. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

 

[3Dementia]

It's great that we no longer have drive so far to soak up this wonderful suburban tower in the park experience.

Cityplace has contributed mightily to waterfront skyline photo ops but nothing here looks remotely like it is part of downtown Toronto. The biggest lost city-building opportunity to date (though we have West Donlands, East Bayfront, Portlands etc."to look forward to".)

I'm baffled that so many planners, so many architects, so many landscape architects, so many developers are out there with so many egg-heads cashing their paychecks.... and it's not possible to create anything remotely resembling a welcoming new downtown city neighbourhood... human scale, well-articulated built forms with mixed uses at grade (not monolithic podiums), towers set back to pay the bills of course.

Toronto's best neighbourhoods obviously evolved over time into the eclectic, hodge-podge of uses, textures, suprises and general urban mayhem that makes them so inviting and entertaining to visit (or live in).

I just can't imagine the podiums of Fort York Blvd. miraculously evolving into anything remotely resembling an animated, exciting downtown neighbourhood in the next 100 years. I don't think some Pernod and Stella umbrellas and a few seasonal flower boxes will encourage me to welcome Cityplace to my Toronto.

 

[SP!RE]

Nice tour I enjoyed it!

Although you left out the aA designed OPTIMA, and the sleek lines of its base .

 

[kram74]

amazing pics...... i remember when the whole area was grass, weeds and dirt.... finally its build up into something worth while.

 

[DtTO]

amazing pics...... i remember when the whole area was grass, weeds and dirt.... finally its build up into something worth while.

It's even better now. Those pictures are from 2 summers ago. If I buy a decent camera this summer, I'll do an updated tour of the area and post it on UT.