ChesterCopperpot
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Allied own 391 Adelaide
Allied own 391 Adelaide
Toronto 96 Spadina | 69.5m | 16s | Allied | Sweeny &Co
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Superstar
Allied own everything to the Spadina corner. There was a design competition for this last year.
Interesting. They can't tear that down fast enough for my liking!
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Well you'll be pleased to know that retention of the 1-storey building wasn't part of any scheme!
smably
Senior Member
Went to the public consultation this evening. Proposed building is 16 storeys of office, 76.5 m to top of mechanical. Architect is Sweeny and the design retains the two heritage buildings at 96 Spadina and 379 Adelaide in their entirety. In the alley between them, Sweeny is proposing a mast structure from which the main volume will hang above the heritage buildings. The upper volume above is very typical Sweeny, a mostly unadorned glass volume, though hopefully with the hangers displayed prominently on either side of the mast. At street level, west of the heritage buildings, they are proposing a volume with massing that reflects the heritage buildings, possibly with a brick facade (or something similarly textured -- hard to tell from the renders), and retail at street level. They want to retain the permeability between Adelaide and the courtyard through various lanes and through the office lobby.
Plans are clearly still preliminary, but here are my crappy cell phone pics:
Plans are clearly still preliminary, but here are my crappy cell phone pics:
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Irishmonk
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I love it. It's such an elegant solution to keeping Heritage structures, without facedectomizing them (is that a word? You know what I mean).
Lenser
Senior Member
Yeah, that looks great. A contemporary build that respects the past and floats elegantly over a couple of sturdy older structures.
Build it.
Build it.
Momin
Senior Member
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Like the notion of it - not so sure about the actual design itself. I'd like to see a purer form atop - and more expression of the suspension structure.
AoD
AoD
That's exactly what we told them at the end of the presentation: beef it up! (by moving the structure outside the glass envelope).
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urbandreamer
recession proof
Terribly dull proposal... Love the current facade of the 1 storey building--a gem I love to sketch it when I'm in the area.
A glass box over a sanitized facade--what a bore.
A glass box over a sanitized facade--what a bore.
modernizt
Senior Member
These days, you will very rarely see that, and for good reason. The structure generally needs to be on the warm side of the envelope. It would be feasible to have a design feature/motif that mimics the structure on the exterior, but it's not really feasible to move the structure to the outside of the building.
It is an example of how the appearance of building changes with time, technology, etc. Energy performance targets and interest in minimizing thermal bridging means that the modernist ideal of exposing structure - most notably on the exterior of a building - is now called into question.
I cannot help wishing, nevertheless, that they find ways to express it more on the exterior than at 480 University, for example, where the new structure is evident to a degree, but maybe is not as obvious as an engineering feat that out-of-the-ordinary deserves to be.
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ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
Found this on that rendering company website - looks like for an old proposal/ vision however
innsertnamehere
Superstar
That was one of the competition entries.