AlbertC
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March 22, 2020
Toronto Galleria On The Park | 143.86m | 42s | Almadev | Hariri Pontarini
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AlbertC
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Work continues on the presentation centre:
April 11, 2020
April 11, 2020
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AlbertC
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June 20, 2020
3Dementia
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Wish something a bit like the stepped mid + lowrise on the far right of the render had found a home on the waterfront (maybe Portlands if no flight path stuff?).
isaidso
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I look forward to the day when this collection of beige garbage gets re-developed. Maybe it will be one of those projects that Toronto re-builds 3-4 times before it's done properly. This is barely 10 years old if that.... but it has to go.
Galleria, on the other hand looks like a winner
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Tokian
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Before those were beige they were apparently brick clad factory buildings similar to the building at the base of the Fuse condos across the street. Before my time in this neighbourhood but people still talk about it with seething hatred for what it became.
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They were the American Standard factory buildings.
AlbertC
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I actually grew up just northeast of the area along Davenport, but for some reason I'm having a lot of difficulty remembering what the original American Standard factory buildings looked like. I also couldn't find any pertinent photos of it online. Most of the historic photos only capture the factory buildings north of Dupont and the train tracks, that which I have a better memory of.
From my understanding the conversion happened in the early 2000's, so I'd be too young to have a full recollection of their appearance. I only remember that they were pretty much fully gutted to its concrete shell before the restructuring and cladding in beige EIFS. The southern building, where Dollarama and a few other retailers are located, also took longer to complete its conversion.
From my understanding the conversion happened in the early 2000's, so I'd be too young to have a full recollection of their appearance. I only remember that they were pretty much fully gutted to its concrete shell before the restructuring and cladding in beige EIFS. The southern building, where Dollarama and a few other retailers are located, also took longer to complete its conversion.
Northern Light
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Found this mid-conversion photo on Emporis
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Found this shot w/them before the re-do but its quite distant over on www.railpictures.ca
Picture above is from 1965
Towered
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They must be among the worst conversions in the history of this city. They mutilate their surroundings.
Northern Light
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Article from John Bentley Mays in 2004 wouldn't disagree w/you.
Condo with bad attitude
Developers of The Standard may have missed a chance to preserve a kind of rough architectural poetry at the site. But something can still be done to forge better links between the project and community
www.theglobeandmail.com
AlbertC
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I have a more vivid recollection of the mid-conversion shell stage. While, the second photo you posted does mostly coincide with my vague memory of the prior state. That they were grey-ish type buildings, and generally less architecturally notable to begin with than its counterparts north of Dupont. Which is no excuse for the shambolic conversion and adapted reuse though of course.
Northern Light
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The column from 2004 that I posted above notes they were, at least in their immediate pre-reno state, largely windowless and clad in metal.