Toronto 81-83 Isabella Street | 226.68m | 70s | Akelius | Arcadis

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This is The Merlan at 81 & 83 Isabella; A 3-storey Edwardian Revival style apartment designed by Norman Alexander Armstrong and built by The Merlan Construction Company in 1927. It was listed on the City's Heritage Register in December 2024.
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The current owner, Akelius, has engaged Arcadis to design a 70-storey tower atop the retained heritage base.
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More details to come!
 
Paclo said:
This is The Merlan at 81 & 83 Isabella; A 3-storey Edwardian Revival style apartment designed by Norman Alexander Armstrong and built by The Merlan Construction Company in 1927. It was listed on the City's Heritage Register in December 2024.
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The current owner, Akelius, has engaged Arcadis to design a 70-storey tower atop the retained heritage base.
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More details to come!
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A firm with only one known talent among its hordes............has been hired to molest a nice old building and just the massing model makes me cringe..............

The preliminary, crude, render is even worse.......... compounding that awful offset with offset windows, ruining any sense of clean lines one might get, and making it feel much clunkier than it otherwise would.....

Then that ridiculous looking glass treatment that reads like a truncated zed..... gah.........send it back.
 
Not a fan, but I will say that the trend towards preserving a full front bay of heritage buildings is a step forward from the even more tacked on 2 dimensional facadectomies of the past.
 
Here's the AIC Link for this proposal:

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Application Details

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Site Plan:

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Ground Floor Plan:

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Proposal Description:

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Elevator Ratio: 6 elevators to 647 units or 1 elevator per 108 units.

Comments:

I've already called it ugly, and could architectural atrocity............

Beyond that, the proposed laneway appears to be of substandard width. The promise, post widening is 'greater than 5M' The city will insist on 6M I expect, that will pose some issues for the builder.
 
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