Toronto 50 Bloor Street West | 230.11m | 70s | Morguard Corporation | Pellow + Associates

[toto]

Curtain walls

City of Toronto Planning Page with detailed drawings, floorplans, studies, and renderings:

http://www.toronto.ca/planning/50_bloor.htm

Pellow + Associates is the architect

High performance glass curtain walls. Could look really good!! Though why not go for 1000' ?

 

[buildup]

Why for heaven's sake?

Some committees think they address their responsibilities by cutting 15% off the height of a building. There is ZERO reason to cap hight here.

 

[SP!RE]

Looking through the plans and renderings for the podium, as well as the tower... it's very NYC.

 

[jje1000]

That was never for this site, that rumour was for 2 Bloor West. The architect for this project, I think, is Pellow.

Oops, my bad. I do hope that this building will undergo some tweaks and fix up some of the issues people are talking about in the thread.

 

[Big Daddy]

Man this area is changing dramatically - very good to see this happening at such a key intersection.

Just a few years ago

 

[Tewder]

Capitalism provides an excuse not to deliver the appropriate level of architectural sophistication for these high-profile projects.

I'm not so sure it's as axiomatic as that. Capitalism provides for what's profitable. In certain contexts I can see where cutting-edge and/or sophisticated design is what will command greater profit, and substantially so. This may just not be what sells in the Toronto market, which isn't quite as 'cutting-edge and sophisticated' as other markets (objectively speaking).

 

[innsertnamehere]

after looking through those huge PDF's, I love this building!

 

[steveve]

awesome elevations ^ . so cool to see accurately/to scale/exactly how they appear in real life renders.. (aside from the old One bloor of course)

this PDF file is pissing me off... it slows down/stops downloading halfway in between. 44 mb isn't much, heck in youtube vids are that size, but for some reason it's so slow...

still waiting....

 

[innsertnamehere]

Try to open it with a pdf reader outside of your browser, that might help.

 

[interchange42]

Whammo: no need to play with that huge pdf now. We've extracted images from it, including lots of detail shots, and put them up in the dataBase. Check it out here!

 

[Xray_Crystal_Junkie]

Have those 45s and 50s towers on the TPA site been approved?

 

[innsertnamehere]

I also find it interesting that it shows a "future yonge/bloor tower" around 250m where stolleries is.

 

[buildup]

Interesting that despite everything we've seen built or announced, nothing has rivalled 1CP in height or especially size in the last 30+ years. What a beast!

 

[timeo]

High performance glass curtain walls. Could look really good!! Though why not go for 1000' ?

Or 3000 feet for that matter? Why not 4000????

 

[kris]

large render via pdf