Toronto Dennis Avenue Community School | 11.4m | 3s | TDSB | MC Architects

[artyboy123]

Taken from DevApp:

"This proposal includes a full demolition of the existing elementary school building and the construction of a 3-storey new school bulding that includes child care facilities, kindergarten and grades 1 to 8 classrooms. The proposed GFA of the new building is 4,644.2 sq. m."

DevApp: http://app.toronto.ca/AIC/index.do?folderRsn=i9EVZ5bXxn6mAsGzRyv7BA==

Elevation Drawing has taken from the architectural plan via SPA:

 

[AlexBozikovic]

Wasn’t aware the demolition had happened. The old school dated back as far as 1891. No heritage attention, no attempt at adaptive reuse - as usual, TDSB gets away with far less scrutiny than any private landowner.

The new building is grim, of course… but, the new parking lot is twice as big as the old one. That’s good, right?

 

[Amare]

Another Frankenstein proposal by the TSDB and Co.

....when does it end with them.

 

[christiesplits]

God, the original school is so cute. Very disappointing.

 

[AlbertC]

View of the site as of Aug 2022:

The former school building:

 

[Mount Dennis Nostalgia]

The 1891 Dennis Avenue School

 

[AlbertC]

Nearing completion

Appears like they pieced this together from remnants of the old school building

At the corner of Dennis Ave & Weston Road, one of the city's more enigmatic works of public art

 

[Northern Light]

Nearing completion

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That is awful.

For comparison, the Activity House at a Danish Prison:

Same Prison:

Source for the above: https://www.designcurial.com/news/storstrm-prison-by-cf-mller-6040669/


The Danes treat serious criminals better than we treat Elementary School Children..................

At the corner of Dennis Ave & Weston Road, one of the city's more enigmatic uglier works of public art

Fixed that for ya.

 

[AlbertC]

TDSB schools getting more utilitarian and mundane by the decade!

 

[christiesplits]

We're gonna see more lackluster school buildings like Dennis Avenue under a Ford government, via the PC platform. CC: @AlexBozikovic and @Northern Light

 

[AlbertC]

We're gonna keep seeing more work by Snyder Architects and whoever these scrubs are!

 

[AlexBozikovic]

We're gonna see more lackluster school buildings like Dennis Avenue under a Ford government, via the PC platform. CC: @AlexBozikovic and @Northern Light

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This is a totally stupid idea, but also how much worse can the architecture get?

 

[Northern Light]

This is a totally stupid idea, but also how much worse can the architecture get?

I'm totally with you, but worried that the Ford Gov't, TDSB and Snyder along with MC will take that as a challenge.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Today:

 

[cranehunter123]

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