TCHC: 501 Adelaide E / 288 King E (14s, aA)

[unimaginative2]

alklay and u2 are the only people proposing skyscrapers in the ravines. aA's Brick Works plan doesn't.

What am I being accused of now? I proposed skyscrapers in ravines? When? Where?

 

[Conrad Black]

Ground floor is pretty much done and work is beginning on the first above ground sections.

 

[Urban Shocker]

u2: If you check what you've written on this thread you'll see that you ask, "Why wouldn't a tall point tower like Spire be appropriate in the Brick Works?" - at a time when the inappropriateness of such a scheme was being discussed and it was perfectly clear why not.

 

[ShonTron]

US' scarcasm detector has malfunctioned again.

Unfortunately, I don't know the number for technical support. I say take him off the forum for a complete servicing and overhaul. He'll be back to his old Building Babel self in no time.

 

[Dan416]

Change his name back to Building Babel while you're at it. It'll be less confusing.

 

[urbandreamer]

070708 photo update:

I believe this is the project in question--way out near Parliament St?

From Ontario and Adelaide:

 

[Edward Skira]

Yes. That's the Adelaide side.

 

[richsherb]

aka: 501 Adelaide St E

Here's the development, it's not a condo at all, though it was originally zoned for that purpose. Rendering is from corners of Berkeley & Adelaide:
http://www.torontohousing.ca/investing_buildings/regent_park/501_adelaide_street_east

 

[urbandreamer]

22 August 2008 photo update

 

[T-Squared]

TCHC: 501 Adelaide St. East

Not sure if this is posted somewhere, but I can't find it in the development index. Please redirect this if it belongs somewhere else. Thanks.

http://www.torontohousing.ca/investing_buildings/regent_park/501_adelaide_street_east

Here are some shots from the construction site a few weeks ago:

I must say, most of the TCHC buildings are lookin' good!

 

[khris]

*edit*

 

[cdr108]

Is it me or does TCHC seem to be getting better looking buildings than some of the private condominiums being built ??!!??

 

[adma]

Well, going back some 15-20 years, if you were into the Diamond/Myers tradition of urban building, you might have found co-ops to be "better looking" than slick, banal vertical-gated-community condos...

 

[T-Squared]

Thanks for moving the post to this proper thread.

Out of curiosity, for comparison sakes, where are some of the co-ops you are referring to in T.O?

 

[DSCToronto]

Thanks for moving the post to this proper thread.

Out of curiosity, for comparison sakes, where are some of the co-ops you are referring to in T.O?

Lots of co-ops in the St Lawrence Market Area - though I do not know the architect(s) involved. They date from the early 1980s.