officedweller
Senior Member
Thanks.
Preserving the Harry Rosen building didn't make sense, so glad that's gone.
Preserving the Harry Rosen building didn't make sense, so glad that's gone.
Toronto 80 Bloor Street West | 263.4m | 78s | Krugarand | Arcadis
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Rimawi
New Member
I love the redesign! Very very classy with the arch base! Just stunnnning
cd concept
Senior Member
The new rendering is very elegant! Hope they keep this design!
rdaner
Senior Member
1300 units?! That’s a lot of upper middle class Lebanese and Russian expats! Lol
goodcitywhenfinished
Active Member
Pleasantly surprised to see this from old IBI. Maybe the Dutch buyout lit a fire under the seats of their design leadership? Lets just hope the materiality is as good as rendered here.
xy3
Active Member
Im worried it wont look anything like the render thanks to the overkill drawn-out approval process and meetings at city hall and the OLT . It could be 4-5 years before shovels are in the ground.
Northern Light
Superstar
Uhhh, Zoning already approved here.
This is Site Plan, which does not go to Council.
There's also a tight timeline in the zoning agreement requiring demolition of the building over Bay Station (making way for the extended park), I believe by the end of next year, though don't hold me to that, I'm not looking it up right now.
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Koops65
Senior Member
alklay
Senior Member
I can't be the only one here who thinks this is boring, bordering on awful. We replaced an innovated modern design with faux precast 1920s? Yuck.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
I think ProjectEnd-san eluded to previously that the original gold balloon proposal was untenable and simply used as a placeholder of sorts as a zoning exercise. So what we're seeing now is the real deal, I gather...for good or bad.
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Big Daddy
Senior Member
Boring? Try ugly!
xy3
Active Member
Does everything have to be contemporary ?
I dont care for the (subtle) diagonal slope of the main tower portion and some of the gap toothed cutouts but overall it looks a lot better than cheap contemporary schlock like the 15 Bloor W proposal.
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ProjectEnd
Superstar
It was a fake building, 'designed' to stimulate an approval. And it did...
What Krugarand now plan to do with it is anyone's guess as they don't build and ain't nobody looking for a 1700+ unit project right now.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...then I shall amend that to a "more of a real deal". >.<
Northern Light
Superstar
I'd have to back and re-read the conditions, but I believe the park/demolition obligations are near term, date-specific.
I imagine they would prefer to have this in the hands of the ultimate builder to spend the $$; but I suppose, if they have the capital they could advance their obligations w/o proceeding with the building at this time.
Found the conditions, I parked them here:
Village of Yorkville Park - extension
MODS: I couldn't find a thread for this but does anyone know what the status is about a planned extension of the park? Found this article from last year - apparently 1240 Bay St. would be demolished (which would be great) to make way for an expansion of the park...
I will copy them over: