Toronto 1153 Queen Street West | 99.35m | 27s | QuadReal | Turner Fleischer

From the above link:

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Site Plan:

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Ground Floor Plan:

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Additional Render:

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Elevator Ratio: 3 elevators to 357 units is 1 elevator per 119 units.

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Hmmm...much taller than anything else in the area. Normally I'm fine with towers, but I'm not so sure about this. One of the appealing things about West Queen West/Parkdale is the more intimate streetscape and lack of tall buildings...
 
cereal said:
133 vehicle parking spaces is way too much for this area, especially because it's within the MSTA/Liberty Village station + right on queen west/queen street car.
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If you look at the number of resident spaces (as opposed to including visitor) its 113, against 357 units.

That's a ratio of about 0.31

Not super high; I agree it could come down a bit...........but that's still over 2/3 of all units having no parking. So its not outrageously auto-centric.
 
innsertnamehere said:
I will say that the ground floor here needs some work.

Along Queen Street it works fairly well, but it has a massive parking access area along Abell which needs to be substantially shrunk. The retail units are also overly shallow and not particularly functional, and the frontage onto the pedestrian laneway to the south needs imrpvoement beyond being a ridiculously massive blank wall. Ideally they work out an access agreement with the condo to the south to use that laneway for vehicular access and can delete most of the vehicular space on the site itself and replace it with deeper retail units.
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It is more convenient for cyclists to have the bike parking at street level but it would free up a lot of space if it was moved to P1 and then the ground level could be re-worked.
Has there ever been an already built condo that agreed to share it's laneway?
 
The brown brick arches remind me of that Lamb Development at 471 Queen out in Moss Park. Feels like a nice evolution of the older main street facade without being overly historicist.
 
As someone who lives in this hood, I'm all for this. BUT they need to significantly reduce the number of vehicle parking spaces, it's excessive considering local context. Wouldn't hurt to bump up bicycle parking while they're at it. Also would love to see retail/commercial on the secondary level. Would help in replacing lost retail space, as well as in creating a buffer with residential units and street-level as this stretch has an active nightlife scene and I can already foresee all the new residents complaining about local businesses and noise.
 
The ground floor doesn't make a lot of sense IMO with the lobby right next to the garage where any traffic leaving would have to loop around Sudbury and bottleneck Abell St ... How about they also don't use premium ground floor space for storage and instead give the community an outdoor mall / hallway with more small retail that business owners can actually afford. This site deservers to be a destination for the neighbourhood. Abell ally is also terribly under-utilized making there be a clear 'ass-side' to the building.
 
a_harold said:
The ground floor doesn't make a lot of sense IMO with the lobby right next to the garage where any traffic leaving would have to loop around Sudbury and bottleneck Abell St ...
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CoT policy righty directs all access from the secondary street, so it would have to be on Abell, not Queen.
a_harold said:
How about they also don't use premium ground floor space for storage and instead give the community an outdoor mall / hallway with more small retail that business owners can actually afford.
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Outdoor mall?
a_harold said:
This site deservers to be a destination for the neighbourhood. Abell ally is also terribly under-utilized making there be a clear 'ass-side' to the building.
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That's what it is though.
 
ProjectEnd said:
CoT policy righty directs all access from the secondary street, so it would have to be on Abell, not Queen.

Outdoor mall?

That's what it is though.
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That's an unfortunate policy for this spot just to say Abell is already at a standstill a lot of the time and there is intended to be a station with a drop-off spot at the end of the street too. There are store fronts along the other side of Abell ally and many of the other builds in the area have street level tunnels thru them. It could be made to be much nicer spot. The tunnel of 68 Abell leading to its parkette was even built to align with Beaconsfield Ave. By outdoor mall all I mean is a short tunnel thru the building with some bodega size retail. As it's directly off Queen St a covered area for the few thousand people who will wait for the streetcar there each day to grab a coffee or things would be great. I can't help but think some more clever design would add a lot of value. Looks like an anonymous generated brick as it is.
 
Red_Bulmer said:
It is more convenient for cyclists to have the bike parking at street level but it would free up a lot of space if it was moved to P1 and then the ground level could be re-worked.
Has there ever been an already built condo that agreed to share it's laneway?
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I think all condos should have some bicycle parking and enough paved space for scooter parking at the entrance for food deliveries. I’ve seen many food delivery people haphazardly park their bikes and scooters blocking the entrance and sometimes the vestibule of condo buildings which is really annoying and a safety issue.
 
neuhaus said:
I think all condos should have some bicycle parking and enough paved space for scooter parking at the entrance for food deliveries. I’ve seen many food delivery people haphazardly park their bikes and scooters blocking the entrance and sometimes the vestibule of condo buildings which is really annoying and a safety issue.
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I was talking about the indoor bike parking provided for residents, if you scroll up, it is highlighted in blue on the ground level floor plan. But I agree, it is nice when delivery drivers have a space for their bikes. On the same ground level floor plan, just outside the lobby entrance, there appears to be a large space under the overhang, where it says "siamese connection" that would likely serve this purpose.
 
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