Toronto 66 Isabella | 73.15m | 23s | BDP Quadrangle

Trees on the podium now.
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The podium facade already looks like it's 20 years old. The colour of the mortar seems to vary, and there are what look like patches of bricks that were later replaced (even though they're probably original).
 
However the independant businesses are a hair salon, beauty product store, and a waxing place. Hardly high profile businesses.

Ah well, these services have to open up shop somewhere I guess.
 
innsertnamehere said:
However the independant businesses are a hair salon, beauty product store, and a waxing place. Hardly high profile businesses.
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People require such businesses; nothing wrong with any of those. They are as part of healthy, mixed neighbourhood as any business.

It's too bad the podium looks like the 80s, or a mish-mash of contemporary frit glazed balconies with a dull, outdated brick colour, further worsened by red and black accents.
 
modernizt said:
People require such businesses; nothing wrong with any of those. They are as part of healthy, mixed neighbourhood as any business.

It's too bad the podium looks like the 80s, or a mish-mash of contemporary frit glazed balconies with a dull, outdated brick colour, further worsened by red and black accents.
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The podium wouldn't be that bad if it at least had quality workmanship. The bricks look awful.

The combination of black window frames and that slightly brown/purple charcoal brick is also a weak point for the podium.
 
The building is being demolished because a 60 storey replacement is being allowed and, to the investors, a weed lot with an approved 60 storey tower has more value than the existing apartment building with the approved 60 storey tower. There's a point to the government encouraging large scale developments like the Guildwood TOD as that project may provide as many units as block busting most of the single family neighbourhood and replacing them with urban four plexes or towns and doubling or tripling the population of a neighbourhood costs exponentially more for municipal infrastructure. Growth expectations are too high for small scale intensification in existing single family neighbourhoods without blowing the budget. The Guildwood TOD and other TOD initiatives in low rise communities are the first steps and undoubtedly are to be expanded with more towers down the road if Toronto continues on plan.

Lifting the zoning restrictions in Toronto's family neighbourhoods wouldn't have saved this tower. Only by not allowing the 60 storey zoning would have saved it.
 
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