The amenities at the top here are going to be unbelievable…
…so I hope that one day, I'll be able to believe this!
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…so I hope that one day, I'll be able to believe this!
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Toronto 645 Yonge | 280m | 76s | KingSett Capital | AS + GG
- Thread starter DonValleyRainbow
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ushahid
Senior Member
280m. thats talllll.
EDIT: i just saw Kingsett's name. this aint happening. love the renders though.
EDIT: i just saw Kingsett's name. this aint happening. love the renders though.
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Iff built like that - which I doubt for a residential project. Plus it's Kingsett - which is more interested in increasing the value of the property than actually building it.
AoD
70Challenger
Active Member
Finally, that horrible billboard on the theatre will be gone.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Always nice to see Kingsett say "Screw you" to OPA 183 again, in addition to 510 Yonge.
You don't hire AS+GG if you're just doing an up-zoning exercise… not everything that KingSett owns gets flipped after up-zoning. (They built the 99 Gerrard W extension to 700 Bay on their own, but this is them aspiring far beyond what 99 Gerrard is). As they've hired AS+GG here, maybe we'll hear about a JV on this one? Or maybe they'll go on their own again…
…but in any case, I am registering some scepticism whether we'll ever see something like this is the end, while still voting for it (should they ask for my vote)!
Let's just see if the software will do this full height, or if it squishes it (for those who like tall and skinny and pixel-for-pixel from the original):
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UrbanFervour
Active Member
RIP old Yonge St. Here for the phallus & bayonet though
Riseth
Senior Member
This is really such an impressive looking tower and will add beautifully to the height canyon forming along this stretch of Yonge Street. One can only hope it actually gets built something like that... 
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
So Mr. 42, if this becomes a reality somehow, how would they do the environmental/maintenance stuff that is normally reserved for the rooftops? I mean, that garden restaurant is fantastic and all, but where would the building's practicals go instead?
Bayer
Senior Member
The inevitable L-Tower-style crane for window washing would ruin this rendering.
The HVAC cooling is proposed to be done at the top of what @UrbanFervour, above, is calling the bayonet section.
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The Preservationist
Active Member
Refreshing. Unfortunately there is a lot of potential here, to value engineer...
Lenser
Senior Member
Guess I'm a contrarian here but I am not a fan of the massing of this thing, particularly at the top; just seems like two distinctly different shapes awkwardly glommed together for the sake of avoiding yet another tall box - like a somewhat different take on how Aura handled the problem (badly!). Still, that rendering of the view from the top is certainly captivating.
Bjays92
Senior Member
Yea I'm with you here. The top floor rendering looks stunning but I honestly don't find anything special about this. Sure it's a little different but it still feels pretty uninspired to me in general. I guess I'm just tired of nothing but glass buildings regardless of the shape.
3Dementia
Senior Member
The east volume has a soaring, angled 'bayonet' (or very thick spire for hidden mech) at the top, and the west volume has angled floor-plates, a dozen floors tapering/curving (on all 3 sides) at the top... and a cathedral atrium amenity.
Not screamin' box ∏ to me.
Not screamin' box ∏ to me.