Marcanadian
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Toronto 1900 Eglinton East | 159.95m | 48s | SmartCentres | a—A
- Thread starter Marcanadian
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A Torontonian Now
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Do we think they've had some preliminary design work done for interesting towers like this, with renderings to follow in due course, or did someone just go crazy when putting together the massing plan:
Northern Light
Superstar
Off the bat.........I have no idea why 2/3 of the parkland is labelled privately owned, that's got to go. POPS are fine, but I want my parks public thanks.
Also the conceptual massing along Eglinton is gross. Its a wide road, and a tall streetwall would be perfectly appropriate. But some human scaling is required.
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On the upside the site is currently trash, an endless, ugly, big box Walmart-centric centre that turns its back on all perimeter roads.
So it would be hard for them to make it any worse!
Also the conceptual massing along Eglinton is gross. Its a wide road, and a tall streetwall would be perfectly appropriate. But some human scaling is required.
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On the upside the site is currently trash, an endless, ugly, big box Walmart-centric centre that turns its back on all perimeter roads.
So it would be hard for them to make it any worse!
.dwg
Active Member
I see courtyard blocks... this is very good. Hopefully those green connections that link the courtyards together stay in the plan as well.
Kenojuak
Active Member
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innsertnamehere
Superstar
The density along here is crazy for what is really just a relatively low capacity in median LRT.
Toronto1834
Active Member
I agree. I think for median LRT this far from Downtown predominantly mid rise maybe 8-11 storeys with a few towers at the LRT stops would be appropriate. With some of the proposals that have been submitted it looks like this area will just become a sea of high rises.
Amare
Senior Member
Condo towers + podiums repeated X times infinitely; this plan/placeholder exhibits exactly everything that's wrong with the Golden Mile Secondary plan.
WislaHD
Superstar
At least with the Eglinton Crosstown there will be many "relief" points. However, we're gonna end up regretting that in-median section if we don't build the Relief Line/Ontario Line to Eglinton.
PMT
Senior Member
Preliminary Report:
urbanyimby
Active Member
WislaHD
Superstar
I imagine that their timeline for this is in the medium-term future, as they must have invested significant capital at VMC at the moment.
ferusian
Active Member
As those will be just two of several buildings on a large site, once the documents come in, a new thread should be started for Phase 1, 1900 Eglinton Av E. This thread would remain for overall planning of the site, including park plans, etc.
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WislaHD
Superstar
While the two tower site in phase 1 will get its own thread, this is a snapshot of how it will look in context to the rest of the master plan, as per Q3 investor presentation:
