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2112 Dundas Street West: a proposed 10-storey mixed-use rental & retail building designed by Architectural Instinct for Caran Developments on the northeast corner of Dundas Street West and Golden Avenue in Toronto's Roncesvalles neighbourhood.

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The use of setbacks makes for an interesting design, but it could use some pops of vibrant colour in the panels around the windows to both improve the design and to better tie it into the surrounding neighbourhood's colour palette. I wonder if there's an attractive Victorian facade underneath the stucco that ought to be preserved.
 
This one is going to need refinements......

Its too far foreward on the sidewalk, and will have to come back to roughly the depth of the currently rendered overhang.

But, they can make most of that up by cutting the wedding cake layers back to two. Though I'd like to see one less storey on the podium portion, as it just reads as very imposing/overbearing, but it needn't.

On the latter, in looking at the renders, for such a short building the podium slabs look a bit thick, relatively the window heights too, if they could shave a 1ft per floor I think the 4s would be fine.

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Ha ha! The unit layouts feature 1.5 bedroom units. What's 0.5 beds?

Also lots of really micro units.......... 312ft2 Studio.... ugh

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No trees or other landscape are proposed on the Dundas frontage. Not acceptable. This is part of why the building will have to be pushed back.
 
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I don't recall seeing this Planning Firm before:

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Yet another proposal that makes no attempt to revitalize the heritage building on site from the get go? I expect the city to push back in that regard.
 
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Yet another proposal that makes no attempt to revitalize the heritage building on site from the get go? I expect the city to push back in that regard.
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This building is neither listed nor designated, so I'm not so sure about that.

So far I haven't had any luck digging up an archival photo from before the mess they made of the facade.
 
Towered said:
Yet another proposal that makes no attempt to revitalize the heritage building on site from the get go? I expect the city to push back in that regard.
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Why do you expect a developer to go out of their way to try and 'discover' a heritage feature that will only make their job harder and less profitable?
 
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2106-2112 Dundas Street West and 1 Golden Avenue - Community Conuslation Meeting​

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Join us for a Virtual Community Consultation Meeting to learn more about the proposed development application at 2106-2112 Dundas Street West and 1 Golden Avenue, which will include presentations and a Question and Answer period providing local residents and stakeholders the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback.
 
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