Toronto 2130 Lawrence Avenue East | 144.35m | 40s | 2031740 Ontario Inc | Turner Fleischer
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@PMT w/the scoop; ya snooze ya lose!
Let's see what I can add........
First the location. This is the north-east corner of Lawrence Ave East and Howden Road.
It is currently the home of a small, 4 storey, medical office building and surface parking.
The site area is 1.1ha or 2.75ac
Per Streetview:
Site Plan:
Ground Floor Plan:
PMT already gave us the renders above, but I thought make we could look a bit closer at the Lawrence fronting buildings:
Comments:
I like the use of colour on the corner building, but then I see the cladding gets dull as you get to the north siide......and to the east as well. Pfft, wrap the whole thing in that. It's interesting, in a good way.
I'd frankly make the podium all one height........ if you want to shift the expression from west to east to reduce the volume size, i'd prefer you just changed the brick colour, and bright vertical colour in the tower element. So shift to a blond brick and a dark blue, or forest green .....just for @Towered how about purple?
There are some good size units here with 2-beds exceeding 1,000ft2.
But there are lots of very small one bedrooms.
I would prefer to see a modest reduction in unit totals in favour of more 2 bedroom units and larger 1 bedrooms as well.
The density seems a bit high for something that is, and will remain relatively distant from higher order transit.
Let's see what I can add........
First the location. This is the north-east corner of Lawrence Ave East and Howden Road.
It is currently the home of a small, 4 storey, medical office building and surface parking.
The site area is 1.1ha or 2.75ac
Per Streetview:
Site Plan:
Ground Floor Plan:
PMT already gave us the renders above, but I thought make we could look a bit closer at the Lawrence fronting buildings:
Comments:
I like the use of colour on the corner building, but then I see the cladding gets dull as you get to the north siide......and to the east as well. Pfft, wrap the whole thing in that. It's interesting, in a good way.
I'd frankly make the podium all one height........ if you want to shift the expression from west to east to reduce the volume size, i'd prefer you just changed the brick colour, and bright vertical colour in the tower element. So shift to a blond brick and a dark blue, or forest green .....just for @Towered how about purple?
There are some good size units here with 2-beds exceeding 1,000ft2.
But there are lots of very small one bedrooms.
I would prefer to see a modest reduction in unit totals in favour of more 2 bedroom units and larger 1 bedrooms as well.
The density seems a bit high for something that is, and will remain relatively distant from higher order transit.
mferna
Active Member
A high-density proposal for Lawrence East near Birchmount would be the area's tallest yet. https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/08/high-density-proposal-lawrence-east-near-birchmount.59196