Toronto CityLights on Broadway | 115.82m | 34s | Pemberton | Wallman Architects

just a terrible project all around. Literally looks like a massing model that they decided to build.

Not every building needs to be an architectural masterpiece, and there is actually a lot of value in "background" buildings, but even those should manage to be thoughtfully detailed and have appropriate material selections.
 
innsertnamehere said:
just a terrible project all around. Literally looks like a massing model that they decided to build.

Not every building needs to be an architectural masterpiece, and there is actually a lot of value in "background" buildings, but even those should manage to be thoughtfully detailed and have appropriate material selections.
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It's the inset balconies set behind gratuitous spandrel that really does it for me.
 
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There is sufficient coverage here - 8 cabs for 769 units. Shows you how much havoc taking one (or two?) out of general service can wreak...
 
ProjectEnd said:
There is sufficient coverage here - 8 cabs for 769 units. Shows you how much havoc taking one (or two?) out of general service can wreak...
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What's the unit mix?

I do think we need to sort out the idea that its not really 1 elevator per 100 units that's a great standard.

That may be an acceptable average (subject to a minimum of 2 elevators); but it really depends on how many people are in each household/unit.

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This got me thinking, is their a consensus standard out there?

This site says 1 elevator per 90 rooms/units:

www.builderspace.com

How Many Elevators Should a Building Have? - BuilderSpace

A building may have at least one elevator or no elevator at all. The Americans With Disabilities Act states that most buildings under three stories don’t need elevators, except for shopping centers, health care centers, or public transit areas.
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This site says 1 elevator per 50-60 units

buildingandinteriors.com

Find the Magic Number - No. of Elevators required in a building

Sometimes professionals find it hard to calculate the no. of elevators (lifts) required in a building - residential, offiice. A quick guide for reference!
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BC Housing has a set of standards:

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Having scanned a raft of sites; the consistent elevators per unit range is 60-90 per elevator.

A small number of government and elevator-related resources use performance standards as shown above, and some also use a per ft2 calculation, presumably as a proxy for total population demand.

I think population demand is key, both in total numbers and in composition.

One has to know what percentage of residents are likely to need an elevator at the same time (school/work); and how many total residents.
 
There are two buildings I lived in (before Manulife) where I don't recall having any elevator issues: the Liberties at Bay and Gerrard, where I lived for 11 years in 2 separate apartments; it has two condo corporations and three separate lobbies, and there are 9 elevators for about 535 apartments. The Lexington, on Carlton, has 4 elevators for 322 apartments, mostly large two-bedrooms. Very different experience from the one I had at 763 Bay (ROCP I).
 
Holdout property sold for $2.65m, over a million more than asking. The listing pushed a) parkland possibility and b) possibility of 4-storey apartment building. Curious who bought it and what it will be used for.
 
GenerationLee said:
Yep. I took this after I saw your reply in this thread.
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How sad does this look.....🤦

The grass used to be nice and green now it's lacking any sunlight well duh the neighbouring 34-storey tower essentially blocked any possible view or lights on 3 sides of the existing holdout property! 😠😠😠

The listing boasted the house as “a hold-out property beaming with endless possibilities,” adding that current zoning for the 32-by-90-foot lot with a garage already allows for a detached house, semi-detached home, townhouse, duplex, triplex, fourplex and an apartment building.

Another option listed was turning the property into off-site parkland, since developers are required to spend 10 per cent of their land value on park space. With a zoning by-law amendment, Kutyan said the property could also swap over to commercial use for a professional office, retail or restaurant space.
 
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