Toronto 2221 Yonge Condos | 192.62m | 58s | Tower Hill | Pei Partnership

Earlier today:

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isaidso said:
The railings are the most attractive feature of this building by a long shot.
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innsertnamehere said:
If that is replicated all the way up this could very well end up being a very nice looking tower.
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It's not hard to see that the railings are replicated the whole way up the tower: click the link to the database file for the renderings.

Some seem to think they always detract from the architecture, but as they are integral to unit sales for most purchasers, they are integral to most residential building plans, and as the building's interface with the world beyond it, they are the architecture. As we build on ever tighter sites with buildings that are maxed out within massing volumes determined by the planning department, balconies are going to continue to determine the look of most residential buildings…

so it's always great to see designs that treat that with serious thought, where they put their money where their figurative mouth is. Glad to see an instance of that here!

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interchange42 said:
As we build on ever tighter sites with buildings that are maxed out within massing volumes determined by the planning department, balconies are going to continue to determine the look of most residential buildings…
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I wonder if the next go-to for increasingly small sites is to completely forgo balconies all together (maybe substituting Juliette balconies), like at One Yorkville.
 
One Yorkville has inset balconies. There are juliettes out there though.

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