Toronto 241 Yonge Street | 221.19m | 67s | Angel | Hariri Pontarini

[interchange42]

The City has received a submission for 239 through 247 Yonge Street, basically four doors south of the entrance to the Ed Mirvish Theatre, and just west across O'Keefe Lane from its auditorium. Before the City posts all the docs, we have a early look at the architecture, and will have a front page story up shortly!

Angel Developments have assembled the properties here and engaged Hariri Pontarini to design a tower to rise from behind the preserved heritage frontage of the Art Metropole building at 241 Yonge, while designing the rest of the frontages to mirror Toronto retail street vernacular, with a different frontage for each former separate property.

67 storeys, 774 rental suites, 6 elevators (129 suites per elevator, which can only be accomplished through high-speed, destination dispatch controlled elevators, as proposed), four retail units at ground level facing Yonge, zero parking for motor vehicles, servicing access via O'Keefe Lane.

I have 10 images here, while there are another 11 in the database file attached at the top of this page.

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[Northern Light]

Superficial take, absent all the details.............but love!

Great use of colour, wonderful grade expression and entirely purpose-built rental. Preliminary qualification for the express line at Planning.

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Let me add a few additional database renders:

 

[DavidCapizzano]

Looking at all of those swoops and curves and brick / window details

 

[canarob]

No way anyone is building something this fancy for what will be another de facto TMU dorm.

 

[AlbertC]

Coming to the bittersweet realization the days could be numbered for that heritage Stag Shop.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

only one thing missing from the renders - the group of pigs flying by

 

[slicecom]

Looks great! Too bad it will probably be value engineered into another boring rectangle covered back painted glass spandrel.

 

[ComptoirGeneral]

Please god let this be built as rendered. I'm so tired of unimaginative glass boxes

 

[interchange42]

A more straight-on hero rendering has been sent our way. Here you go!

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[Lenser]

Elegant and commanding. What are the chances it will actually look this smart, though? I want to believe, I really do!

 

[thaivic]

Elegant and commanding. What are the chances it will actually look this smart, though? I want to believe, I really do!

If this was being built by Fitzrovia it would be close to the renderings but if one looks at what Angel Developments did at Yonge and Gloucester i won't hold my breath.

 

[Tyrang]

It's a handsome design for TO. But do we really need another tower at that location?

Area around Moss Park needs development, and 3C, East Harbor, and Villiers Island will also need to be filled out. Can we direct attention that way?

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

I smell a zoning exercise here...

 

[interchange42]

It's a handsome design for TO. But do we really need another tower at that location?

Area around Moss Park needs development, and 3C, East Harbor, and Villiers Island will also need to be filled out. Can we direct attention that way?

You can only redevelop what you own, not some properties that you don't. In the meantime, those areas you mention all have plans too.

I smell a zoning exercise here...

Angel built recently. Maybe this seems too good to be true at this point, but we can't know for sure. If this is approved, I would hope that the final result would be recognizable in these renderings; this is engaging at street level, elegant on the skyline, and brings colour in both areas.

For my part, though, it's not just the exterior that matters; I'd like the Province to act to allow the City to say no when a minimum elevator service isn't provided (1 per every ~100 suites or so; establish a formula that keeps everyone safe and doesn't waste their lives waiting for service).

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[Strange Advance]

A step or two down from gorgeous.