Toronto 69 Yonge | 89.45m | 21s | H&R REIT | PARTISANS

[ProjectEnd]

North-east corner of Yonge and Wellesley (Sweeny) too. The Canada Permanent Bvilding and Sterling Tower on Bay were mooted for conversions, but the groups backing them couldn't get everything together and both fell through.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Office conversions aren't new. There are a couple of them in Hamilton as well, including this awfully bungled one.. The question is more so if City Planning will force this off to the OLT because of the office space loss, being typically unresponsive to changing markets and realities. I agree that office replacement had a real value and purpose in the pre-COVID era, but these days, this type of conversion should really be encouraged (ok, maybe not the Hamilton example!)

1979:

Today:

 

[Northern Light]

Office conversions aren't new. There are a couple of them in Hamilton as well, including this awfully bungled one.. The question is more so if City Planning will force this off to the OLT because of the office space loss, being typically unresponsive to changing markets and realities. I agree that office replacement had a real value and purpose in the pre-COVID era, but these days, this type of conversion should really be encouraged.

1979:

Today:

Bungled? LOL, that's awfully kind of you. Wow.

 

[egotrippin]

This building's immediate neighbour, 7 King, is an office conversion as well. Previously the National Trust Building built in 1963, converted 1995.

 

[Northern Light]

This building's immediate neighbour, 7 King, is an office conversion as well. Previously the National Trust Building built in 1963, converted 1995.

Should have remembered that one!

 

[AlbertC]

69 Yonge

69 Yonge – Enhancing a landmark building at Yonge & King

69yonge.ca

 

[Nateallen84]

This project looks absolutely terrible.

 

[thecharioteer]

Three other early conversions from the 90's were:

111 Merton:

135 Maitland:

980 Yonge:

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Yesterday:

 

[CanadianNational]

I really love Partisan's funky and innovative spirit, but I can't believe they're the right firm for this job. We don't need rigid, constrictive contextualism or imitation, but we do need respect for the original building, a sense of relief in the proper finish the building has lacked, and, if I may quote Blake, "The lineaments of gratified desire". I don't think there's many on this forum that wouldn't like to see the missing corner and its missing cupola built. This building is now meant to be seen from above, isn't it?
I don't think Partisan's concept fulfills satisfactorily. It's utterly fashionable. That's not a recommendation, in my books. It doesn't provide closure to that corner and forbids it from ever happening. Seen from above, the new addition will be a faddish imposition, blocking a natural sense of aesthetic and historical completion.