Toronto CAMH Queen Street | 60.3m | 7s | CAMH | Diamond Schmitt + KPMB + TreanorHL + HOK

[interchange42]

From the Daily Commercial News:
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• IBI Group Architects (joint venture) Aspire/Meridiam — Walbridge-Aldinger, Dalkia Canada Inc., KPMG and Farrow Partnership Architects Inc.

KPMG is designing buildings now? That's going to be confusing.

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[mysteryman]

There's no accounting for good design

 

[Filip]

There's no accounting for good design

Excellent

 

[urbandreamer]

1 February 2009 photo update

Construction trailers on site for phase 2, perhaps?

 

[catcher_of_cats]

Construction trailers on site for phase 2, perhaps?

Looks like it.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Completed (albeit grim) images of the Alternative Milieu & Admin. offices at CAMH on the west side of White Squirrel Way.

Buildings E3 & E4 (30 & 60 White Squirrel Way)



Buildings E3, E4, E5 & Admin.



White Squirrel Way, from Queen Street



Public Park off Queen W. & the wall at the north-west end of the site



Construction staging area near White Squirrel Way with Building 1 in the background

 

[Towered]

Can't wait to see the main building replaced with a new friendly streetscape and new road connections to the existing grid. Ossington will be extended south to a new western extension of Adelaide, but I'd like to see it go further, to King. It could be gently curved a bit to the east to go round the townhomes and then south to meet Douro street on the other side of King.

 

[adma]

Problem with extending Ossington south: the wall. It's borderline sacrosanct, you know...

 

[Towered]

Does the south wall go all the way to Shaw street?

 

[urbandreamer]

14 May 2009 photo update

Lotsa digging going on:

 

[ProjectEnd]

Is there a Phase II render around that someone could post?

 

[BobBob]

There's an overview here (PDF):
http://www.camh.net/News_events/Red...et_site/Whats_Coming_Next/RevlpmtOH 1B_Ws.pdf

And another one, which nicely shows how the redevelopment will impose a conventional street grid onto the CAMH grounds:
http://www.camh.net/News_events/Red...eet_site/Whats_Coming_Next/ENABLING WORKS.pdf

 

[ProjectEnd]

Sweet, it's the khaki of mental health centers - beige...

Why not re-enlist Alsop? Or keep it in Toronto and go with a local firm that's not scared of a little color. If ones' mission is teaching addicts that there is a wondrous life outside their self-imposed prison, are beige bricks and grey mullion windows the best way to inspire confidence? Thanks for posting though BobBob.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Phase 1a incorporates many materials including reddish/brown brick on the three Alternative Milieu buildings and even some wood accents (see post 96).
As I read it, the suggestion is to draw on successful midrise designs to inspire the development of future phases.

http://www.camh.net/News_events/Red... Urban Village/land development strat_9MB.pdf (see pages 7 - 30)

 

[adma]

Sweet, it's the khaki of mental health centers - beige...

Why not re-enlist Alsop? Or keep it in Toronto and go with a local firm that's not scared of a little color. If ones' mission is teaching addicts that there is a wondrous life outside their self-imposed prison, are beige bricks and grey mullion windows the best way to inspire confidence? Thanks for posting though BobBob.

Though I'm not sure whether Alsopping CAMH would alleviate things or affirm stereotypes instead