Toronto 2323 Yonge | 133.6m | 37s | RioCan | DIALOG

[ferusian]

2323 YONGE ST
Ward 12 - Tor & E.York District

Development Applications

Zoning By-law Amendment application to facilitate the development of the site for a 37-storey mixed use building comprised of 7,506.10 square metres of non-residential gross floor area and 23,240 square metres of residential gross floor area. A total of 380 residential dwelling units are proposed.

The site is co-owned RioCan & Streamliner Properties and is currently home to an 8-storey office building & a single storey retail building

Site context:

 

[someMidTowner]

I love that building. Here's a pic i took a few years ago:
2323 Yonge Street by Jack Landau, on Flickr

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

I really want a window wall that cladding.

 

[UrbanAffair]

I grew up eating hot dogs on the steps of that building as I was foolishly skipping classes at NTCI.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I really want a window wall that cladding.

Perhaps there is a need for something like the Guild Inn collection - only for Modernist architectural details.

AoD

 

[AlbertC]

I grew up eating hot dogs on the steps of that building as I was foolishly skipping classes at NTCI.

Yonge Eg Centre and the foodcourt here, those were the days!

 

[someMidTowner]

I grew up eating hot dogs on the steps of that building as I was foolishly skipping classes at NTCI.

Does the old guy dressed like an urban cowboy still hang out on those steps?

 

[AlbertC]

Does the old guy dressed like an urban cowboy still hang out on those steps?

Someone on Reddit made a sighting of him around a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/942i88

 

[concrete_and_light]

Going to be really sad if we lose this building as well as the one at 1200 Bay. They're very similar and both worth protecting. The city should be proactive about protecting this important architectural era. Breaks my heart that we might lose both of these — the sculpting of the concrete is incredible and nothing like it will likely ever be done again. Now we just snap together spandrel and mullions.

 

[Towered]

Seems that older office buildings under 10 storeys tall are increasingly becoming targets for densification.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Shit, this sucks.

 

[AlbertC]

View along Roehampton, this building was completed in 1970.

Photo from:

Toronto Architectural Conservancy - TO Built = 2323 Yonge Street

www.acotoronto.ca

 

[ProjectEnd]

No hard evidence, but my money would be on Bregman Hamann for this too.

 

[UrbanAffair]

Does the old guy dressed like an urban cowboy still hang out on those steps?

Of course! Most off putting is the Oasis aqualounge shirt he wears, every. single. day. I want to give him some less creepy shirts very badly.

 

[WislaHD]

Oh no, this is a rather iconic building for me. One that I think we would have appreciated as heritage in retrospect.

It's too bad that local councillors are more invested in designating random 1920s cookie-cutter houses and beat-up retail strips as heritage instead of buildings like this.