Toronto Forward Condos at Concord CityPlace | 94.48m | 30s | Concord Adex | P + S / IBI

[salsa]

Taken from a moving vehicle. I tried my best.

 

[GenerationLee]

If anyone occasionally sees from CP24 and when they talk of how traffic is, and they go to the Gardiner camera right near Bathurst, you'll have seen this project slowly rise and be clad in spandrel and glass, pretty cool.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

So, few people are going to care that much about this, but I've finally got architectural plans for this condo, along with Newton and Exchange. That's allowed me to update the dataBase files for each of the three buildings. All of them fairly short, (none will make the 120 metre list for example), so as I said, I don't expect many people to care that much, but I hate seeing the "?m" in some thread titles, and am glad to have the numbers filled in now for these three.

One thing of note, however, is that this building and Newton have some of the shortest condo floor-to-floor heights I've seen in quite a while. From top-of-slab to top-of-slab, Forward and Newton's floor heights are 2650 mm, or 8' 8.3". Take away the slab height, and floor and ceiling* finishes, (*or are these two buildings loft style with concrete ceilings?), then we've got 8' ceilings here, maybe an inch less. That's pretty rare for a new condo, although it's a fairly standard height for rental buildings. (Exchange's top-of-slab to top-of-slab heights are 2950 mm, or 9' 8.1", which is just about the industry standard for condos these days.) Just so you know…

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It is the little details that matter.

 

[G.L.17]

March 10th:

 

[rather_draconian]

This building makes it evident that Concord has not moved one notch ahead in terms of architectural achievement from when they started Cityplace. It really comes down to unwillingness to spend money on design anymore than you need to, I think.

 

[UrbanAffair]

Concord should have its own special design review panel, with directives that are mandatory. Anything would be better than this crapopulus. (yup, new word)

 

[TheKingEast]

Concord should have its own special design review panel, with directives that are mandatory. Anything would be better than this crapopulus. (yup, new word)

There is no other builder that value engineers like Concord does. I think the city learned its lesson though. I don't think we'll see this mistake again.

 

[Ramako]

There is no other builder that value engineers like Concord does. I think the city learned its lesson though. I don't think we'll see this mistake again.

Too late.

 

[G.L.17]

Yesterday, moving vehicle:

 

[Torontovibe]

 

[salsa]

May 28

 

[G.L.17]

Dufferin bridge two days ago:

 

[Marcanadian]

Saturday:

CityPlace by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

CityPlace by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

CityPlace by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

CityPlace by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

 

[Red Mars]

Pics taken June 7, 2017

 

[adHominem]

Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome, but I actually don't mind Forward & Newton nearly as much as other later Cityplace additions (like, say, Quartz or Spectra).