Toronto Bohemian Embassy Flats + Lofts | ?m | 19s | Pemberton | P + S / IBI

[urbandreamer]

2 May 2010 update: Don't you love the precast detailing?

 

[urbandreamer]

8 May 2010: From OCAD:

Close up of grim precast panels:

 

[urbandreamer]

16 May 2010 update:

Glazing going up on the western wall, I suppose it looks okay.

As seen from the cheeky installation at Fly Gallery:

 

[Torontovibe]

That ugly strip mall on Queen Street has gotta go.

 

[catcher_of_cats]

That ugly strip mall on Queen Street has gotta go.

It will. There is a thread somewhere on the forum concerning it.

 

[yyzer]

recent pic by Jasonzed at SSC......

 

[urbandreamer]

5 June 2010:

 

[Davin]

From my Balcony:

 

[urbandreamer]

10 June 2010:

What a nasty ugly ghetto wall this is:

 

[Solaris]

thanks for the updates UD ...

What a nasty ugly ghetto wall this is:

unfortunately, that 'noise attenuation wall' was necessary to protect the townhouses from the adjacent railway noise in accordance with MOE standards

 

[adma]

unfortunately, that 'noise attenuation wall' was necessary to protect the townhouses from the adjacent railway noise in accordance with MOE standards

Yeah, and talk about MOE standards; it's a visual poke in the eye

 

[yyzer]

Developer - "So we have to build a wall?"

Ministry of the Environment - "Soitenly"

 

[Aaron]

I don't know if that's what they're attempting, but it'd be nice to see the entire wall covered in some slow growing, creepy, crawly vegetation a la Wrigley Field. And talk about a great graffiti deterrent.

 

[urbandreamer]

26 June 2010:

 

[current]

June 30

From Gladstone Ave. By the end of August the Dufferin Jog will be eliminated. Gladstone Ave will become a local street and there will no longer be a bus stop beside Price Chopper.


From the Price Chopper parking lot.