One City Hall Condos (Diamante, 16s, Hariri Pontarini) COMPLETE

[Observer Walt]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Oh I don't know. The article profiles someone who is a "player" in Toronto, and who apparently has the drive and savvy to get things done a bit differently than the usual.

I am familiar with Phoebe, on Soho Street, and consider it to be one of the very best developments in Toronto.

 

[adma]

Re: A rare kind of developer

And 1CH is sublime proof that you can do good "Toronto Style" without resorting to point towers every which way.

Speaking of sublime (albeit frivolous), *somebody* has to raise the matter (reinforced by the accompanying photo) of Julie Di Lorenzo being a DILF (Developer I'd Like to...)

 

[istrian]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Nice midrise, although the layout could have been designed better, but after all ' everything is in the eye of the beholder':rollin :

 

[yinyang41]

Re: A rare kind of developer

yeah the layout needs to be more...feminine. currently it's gross

 

[Canuck 36]

Re: A rare kind of developer

And this is a part of our ongoing experiment as to why this forum does not have more (active) female members.

 

[paulbali]

Re: A rare kind of developer

I think we had one, once.

I suppose construction truly is one of the Manly Arts.

 

[adma]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Well, one thing about being a DILF, it reverses nature's course, i.e. usually *we're* the ones getting screwed by the developers...

 

[adma]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Oh, and I'd also argue that even if this forum had a larger female contingent, they'd be (ideally) no less prone to dishing it out over JDL's Nigella-of-the-development-industry looks, etc. The whole gender-neutral gossip/snark dynamic. Sometimes, I wish UT had a little more Gawker to it...

Anyway, I reiterate my own being impressed by how well 1CH's turned out, and how little surprisingly little buzz that's generated here--perhaps because this kind of retro-Benvenuto low/midrise form is too subtle for skyscraper fanatics to go ga-ga over. But it's a fantastic urban model, and I can't help foreseeing more like it. (And besides Benvenuto, it reminds me of influential archetypes like SOM's 1950 Manhattan House...)

 

[istrian]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Quote:
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in the power of community came to her from her family's hometown of Abruzzo in Italy's central mountains not far from the Adriatic Sea
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I'm nit-picking, but Abruzzo is an Italian province, not a town.

Hehehe Lisa Rochon lacs some Geography basics, her error
is same as if someone from Italy would call Alberta a nice Canadian prairie town
Gooooooooooooooooooo Lisaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

On that position she shouldn't allow herself such a mistakes,
that isn't forum for god sake >:

 

[adma]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Speaking of female imagery, just an aside: that "Style Changes Everything" Sony Bravia super-ad on the wall of that building next door to 1 City Hall leaves me thinking, for some reason, of a Royal Bank Plaza in the midst of a lineup of T-D Centre towers...

 

[jmacmillan]

Re: A rare kind of developer

Diamante builds nice-looking buildings. Take a look at the one on the northeast corner of Bay and College. They even took a chance knowing that that they wouldn't have much room for their equipment.

 

[adma]

Re: A rare kind of developer

That, + the octagonalizing one at the top of Bay, reflects Diamante in its "make everything look ultra-white and blanched" phase. I guess they've hived all that off to Robert Stern, now...

 

[billy corgan]

1 City Hall

I can’t find the official thread so I’ll post this here for now:

Close-up of fritted glass balconies.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Thanks again. Nice bit of copper accent - they sure took their time on the details for this one.

AoD

 

[simply Dan]

Easily one of the best new condo projects in downtown Toronto - very sophisticated design. It's all about the details with this one.