Toronto Atrium on Bay Expansion | 114m | 34s | KingSett Capital | Hariri Pontarini

[maestro]

What a joke

 

[innsertnamehere]

The hearing date is July 12, 2017, if anyone wishes to attend and oppose.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Recall however, that you can't oppose on aesthetic grounds. Your issue has to be that the project fails to meet one of four tests:

• The proposal is appropriate for the development of the land and/or building.
• The general intent and purpose of the City's Zoning By-law is maintained.
• The general intent and purpose of the City's Official Plan is maintained.
• The variance requested is minor.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Gee what is there to oppose??, some curves, some LED lighting...lol

 

[salsa]

I wish they'd went for a straight up replication of the original design instead of this. Y+D is truly where architecture goes to die in Toronto.

AoD

Yeah it's not like a simple glass box is hard to replicate. This is not a heritage brick building.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Yeah it's not like a simple glass box is hard to replicate. This is not a heritage brick building.

It maybe difficult to source the materials to replicate to the same exacting standards - but since they are replacing the entire envelope anyways, would it hurt to try and preserve the spirit of the original building? This isn't it.

AoD

 

[Lansdude]

Hard to disagree with this but it would been cool if they threw in some setbacks and compensated with more height. Good opportunity for a terrace of some kind.

 

[Dan416]

It's kinda ugly. But the main thing i don't like is that the atrium won't be visible from the retail level anymore.

 

[jje1000]

It's kinda ugly. But the main thing i don't like is that the atrium won't be visible from the retail level anymore.

Definitely this- it's the same thing that happened to the giant atrium at Royal Bank Plaza when they closed it off for a trading floor- a potentially good space was lost.

http://torontoist.com/2009/01/vintage_toronto_ads_the_aluminum_cy/

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

So I guess they can finally rename this from Atrium on Bay to Atrium no one can see.

AoD

 

[Towered]

That is really appalling. I wasn't expecting much but this is far worse than anything I thought might be coming...

And closing off the atrium to the public is the most offensive part of this plan. I can't fathom how that was even seriously proposed. Where's the Design Review Panel when you need it?

 

[Towered]

Gee what is there to oppose??, some curves, some LED lighting...lol

Ah yes, the usual sophisticated insight.

 

[Momin]

Our front page story from yesterday: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/03/minor-variance-could-spell-major-changes-atrium-bay

 

[Irishmonk]

So I guess they can finally rename this from Atrium on Bay to Atrium no one can see.

AoD

The Ceiling on Bay

 

[Yegger]

What's worse about this whole situation is that the architecture firm who designed this building in the first place is the one designing this appalling expansion ...