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They have now applied for their site plan permit:
175 QUEENS QUAY E
Ward 28
South District Site Plan Approval 10 104071 STE 28 SA Jan 13, 2010 --- --- --- --- ---
Site plan approval for a new 8 storey mixed use building with college uses on floors 1-7 and retail use on level 1(at Grade) - concourse level ( 1 below grade) classroom and operation use - 3 levels below grade parking - 306 spaces - 220 spaces allocated to Corus Entertainment - remainder of spaces for George Brown College. - Building located on Block 5 - New address will be 51 Dockside Drive - Block 4 Under public right of way.
Note the civic address - Mods may want to add to title?
175 QUEENS QUAY E
Ward 28
South District Site Plan Approval 10 104071 STE 28 SA Jan 13, 2010 --- --- --- --- ---
Site plan approval for a new 8 storey mixed use building with college uses on floors 1-7 and retail use on level 1(at Grade) - concourse level ( 1 below grade) classroom and operation use - 3 levels below grade parking - 306 spaces - 220 spaces allocated to Corus Entertainment - remainder of spaces for George Brown College. - Building located on Block 5 - New address will be 51 Dockside Drive - Block 4 Under public right of way.
Note the civic address - Mods may want to add to title?
Sir Novelty Fashion
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I was expecting more of a pastiche.
catcher_of_cats
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George Brown College bringing its bustle to the waterfront
Posted: February 23, 2010, 7:30 AM by Rob Roberts Kuitenbrouwer
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There have been a lot of condos built on the lake shore over the past couple of decades, but this may be the first purpose-built facility coming to Toronto’s waterfront at which citizens will be able to (inexpensively) get their teeth cleaned.
The dental hygiene clinic is just a small part of a big, glittering, $100-million Waterfront Campus for which contractors hired by George Brown College began this month digging out the soggy fill at the foot of Sherbourne Street, south of Queens Quay. The campus is set for completion in fall 2011.
“It’s finally animating the waterfront, taking 5,000 students down there,” says Anne Sado, president of George Brown. “We will operate the campus seven days a week, because of continuing education.”
George Brown, using a style similar to Ryerson University, has in the past few years expanded its campus on King Street east of Jarvis with buildings that invite and welcome the public, and blur the line between the campus and the community -- a pattern the school plans to continue at its new campus, which will house school’s burgeoning school of health sciences.
George Brown, with 22,000 full time students and 68,000 in continuing education, has grown quickly. The other day Ms. Sado met me for lunch at The Chef’s House to tell me a bit about her college’s future.
George Brown has for years operated a restaurant as part of its renowned cooking school; the restaurant formerly was tucked away in one of the school’s buildings, down a hall and up a flight of stairs. A few years ago Ms. Sado noticed the former Pasquale Bros. grocery store building on King and Frederick street was for sale; George Brown snapped it up, sand-blasted the place within an inch of its life, exposed the wrought-iron posts and, in the fall of 2008, opened a high-end eatery in the space.
At The Chef’s House, three-course gourmet lunch costs $22, and you get to watch the cooks prepare your meal on flat-screen TVs affixed to the walls. Bethune, our waiter, was a perfect gentleman, and I can safely recommend the red beet, celeriac and pear salad with goat cheese dressing (the tiny oregano buds were a particularly inspiring detail) as well as the apple frangipane tart with cheddar cheese ice cream.
The restaurant bustled with patrons (the public is welcome) as did King Street around George Brown. One can see why -- in seeking to animate the shore -- John Campbell, the head of Waterfront Toronto, called Ms. Sado.
George Brown is a good fit; the existing St. James campus is just a 10-minute walk up Sherbourne Street from the new facilities. Plus George Brown is bursting at the seams.
“We need the space,” Ms. Sado says. “This will allow us to consolidate and create an environment for interprofessional education.” Ms. Sado, also chair of the board at Trillium Health Centre, a Mississauga hospital, believes in training health professionals as an interdependent, patient-focused team. “It will be an open, vibrant learning environment with lots of light,” she promises.
George Brown, using $61.5-million in provincial money, $30-million from Ottawa, and its own money plus fundraising dollars, plans two buildings totalling half a million square feet, on land the school will lease from the City of Toronto.
The first college building, closest to Lake Ontario, will house nursing, dental, health and wellness, gerontology and other programs.
The school wants to talk to the city about teaming up to design the second building, which will house a gym -- open to the public evenings and weekends -- along with, potentially, a community centre. A street, known right now as Dockside Drive, will bisect the two buildings, east-west.
The city is at present building Sherbourne Park along the east side of the new George Brown campus, and Brian Stock, a college spokesman, has a dreamy vision of how the future might look.
“Imagine if you’re skating at the park, and then you go across to our food court for a hot chocolate,” he says.
Either that, or a nice teeth cleaning.
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Posted: February 23, 2010, 7:30 AM by Rob Roberts Kuitenbrouwer
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/...s-bustle-to-the-waterfront.aspx#ixzz0gMfUutjP
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There have been a lot of condos built on the lake shore over the past couple of decades, but this may be the first purpose-built facility coming to Toronto’s waterfront at which citizens will be able to (inexpensively) get their teeth cleaned.
The dental hygiene clinic is just a small part of a big, glittering, $100-million Waterfront Campus for which contractors hired by George Brown College began this month digging out the soggy fill at the foot of Sherbourne Street, south of Queens Quay. The campus is set for completion in fall 2011.
“It’s finally animating the waterfront, taking 5,000 students down there,” says Anne Sado, president of George Brown. “We will operate the campus seven days a week, because of continuing education.”
George Brown, using a style similar to Ryerson University, has in the past few years expanded its campus on King Street east of Jarvis with buildings that invite and welcome the public, and blur the line between the campus and the community -- a pattern the school plans to continue at its new campus, which will house school’s burgeoning school of health sciences.
George Brown, with 22,000 full time students and 68,000 in continuing education, has grown quickly. The other day Ms. Sado met me for lunch at The Chef’s House to tell me a bit about her college’s future.
George Brown has for years operated a restaurant as part of its renowned cooking school; the restaurant formerly was tucked away in one of the school’s buildings, down a hall and up a flight of stairs. A few years ago Ms. Sado noticed the former Pasquale Bros. grocery store building on King and Frederick street was for sale; George Brown snapped it up, sand-blasted the place within an inch of its life, exposed the wrought-iron posts and, in the fall of 2008, opened a high-end eatery in the space.
At The Chef’s House, three-course gourmet lunch costs $22, and you get to watch the cooks prepare your meal on flat-screen TVs affixed to the walls. Bethune, our waiter, was a perfect gentleman, and I can safely recommend the red beet, celeriac and pear salad with goat cheese dressing (the tiny oregano buds were a particularly inspiring detail) as well as the apple frangipane tart with cheddar cheese ice cream.
The restaurant bustled with patrons (the public is welcome) as did King Street around George Brown. One can see why -- in seeking to animate the shore -- John Campbell, the head of Waterfront Toronto, called Ms. Sado.
George Brown is a good fit; the existing St. James campus is just a 10-minute walk up Sherbourne Street from the new facilities. Plus George Brown is bursting at the seams.
“We need the space,” Ms. Sado says. “This will allow us to consolidate and create an environment for interprofessional education.” Ms. Sado, also chair of the board at Trillium Health Centre, a Mississauga hospital, believes in training health professionals as an interdependent, patient-focused team. “It will be an open, vibrant learning environment with lots of light,” she promises.
George Brown, using $61.5-million in provincial money, $30-million from Ottawa, and its own money plus fundraising dollars, plans two buildings totalling half a million square feet, on land the school will lease from the City of Toronto.
The first college building, closest to Lake Ontario, will house nursing, dental, health and wellness, gerontology and other programs.
The school wants to talk to the city about teaming up to design the second building, which will house a gym -- open to the public evenings and weekends -- along with, potentially, a community centre. A street, known right now as Dockside Drive, will bisect the two buildings, east-west.
The city is at present building Sherbourne Park along the east side of the new George Brown campus, and Brian Stock, a college spokesman, has a dreamy vision of how the future might look.
“Imagine if you’re skating at the park, and then you go across to our food court for a hot chocolate,” he says.
Either that, or a nice teeth cleaning.
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Chrisel
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New campus brings healthy vibe to waterfront revitalisation
worldarchitecturenews.com
George Brown College’s new 27,870 sq m urban health sciences campus will occupy a prominent site at the intersection of a major new urban waterfront park and Lake Ontario. This new campus recognises the shift in healthcare services from isolated medical functions toward an integrated delivery of care. The overarching vision of the campus is to realise an inter-professional education delivery model through the creation of an environment where students from different professional programs can learn with, from and about each other to understand the importance of collaboration and its impact on quality of care. As one of the first major initiatives on the waterfront, the design must comply with rigorous urban design guidelines, inclusive of street level animation and aiming for LEED® Gold Certification.
The design optimises the lakefront site, drawing on waterfront typologies from pier buildings and industrial lofts creating a new paradigm of health sciences education. A highly flexible academic ‘loft’ bar building anchors the west side of the site. To the south and east, the building steps downward by means of articulated park pavilions. The highly transparent façade expresses the program, maximises view and connection to and from the adjacent park and lake.
A fluid ‘learning landscape’ is embodied within the building section creating a legible vertical circulation from ground plane to accessible green roofs. With its views to the lake and park, these informal gathering spaces are the physical manifestation of the inter-professional education model, providing the opportunity to nurture inter-program collaboration. The transparent podium houses public program components further elevating the project’s vision to become an intercommunity education model.
The campus is envisioned as a ‘living lab’ structured to promote innovative client service models and products that emphasise wellness and health promotion. Conceived as a highly transparent, vertically integrated campus, it is defined by its public connectivity and reinforces an environment of wellness that capitalises on its prime waterfront location.
worldarchitecturenews.com
George Brown College’s new 27,870 sq m urban health sciences campus will occupy a prominent site at the intersection of a major new urban waterfront park and Lake Ontario. This new campus recognises the shift in healthcare services from isolated medical functions toward an integrated delivery of care. The overarching vision of the campus is to realise an inter-professional education delivery model through the creation of an environment where students from different professional programs can learn with, from and about each other to understand the importance of collaboration and its impact on quality of care. As one of the first major initiatives on the waterfront, the design must comply with rigorous urban design guidelines, inclusive of street level animation and aiming for LEED® Gold Certification.
The design optimises the lakefront site, drawing on waterfront typologies from pier buildings and industrial lofts creating a new paradigm of health sciences education. A highly flexible academic ‘loft’ bar building anchors the west side of the site. To the south and east, the building steps downward by means of articulated park pavilions. The highly transparent façade expresses the program, maximises view and connection to and from the adjacent park and lake.
A fluid ‘learning landscape’ is embodied within the building section creating a legible vertical circulation from ground plane to accessible green roofs. With its views to the lake and park, these informal gathering spaces are the physical manifestation of the inter-professional education model, providing the opportunity to nurture inter-program collaboration. The transparent podium houses public program components further elevating the project’s vision to become an intercommunity education model.
The campus is envisioned as a ‘living lab’ structured to promote innovative client service models and products that emphasise wellness and health promotion. Conceived as a highly transparent, vertically integrated campus, it is defined by its public connectivity and reinforces an environment of wellness that capitalises on its prime waterfront location.
urbandreamer
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I can picture attractive nursing students playing giant scrabble on those benches!
Building itself reminds me of glassier Bell Light Box without the condo tower
Building itself reminds me of glassier Bell Light Box without the condo tower
junctionist
Senior Member
What happened to those angular buildings seen in the earlier renderings? Is that white corrugated metal cladding seen in some of the renderings? Hopefully not; that kind of cladding belongs on a suburban warehouse, not on the waterfront.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Very nice. Generous overhangs, transparency, sleek flanks, the upper glass box on the east side set at an angle - incorporating ideas swiped from the grande horizontale Corus.
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!
- Robert Browning
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!
- Robert Browning
fred
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More likely homeless people sleeping on those benches. That's why shortly after they install those benches, they will add metal bars every 24 inches.
Whilst I am not overly thrilled with what they are doing at the East Bayfront, at least this College is better use than the Corus Building. The Corus building, being a private business, will obviously be closed to the public. At least GBC will be open for night courses. But I still say this whole project is a terrible mistake and a terrible use of this huge tract of public land. They should've saved it for something better.
fred
New Member
This East Bayfront miscarriage of Urban Planning is changing on a monthly basis. It looks nothing like the original precinct plan. As soon as Waterfront Toronto finds someone willing to develop something, they alter their plans according to what the customer wants. The original precinct plan did NOT have the Corus building.
It probably IS corrugated metal cladding. Let's hope the entire final project isn't made of corrugated metal cladding. This whole East Bayfront belongs in the suburbs.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
fred:
How is East Bayfront a) a miscarriage of urban planning and b) look nothing like the original precinct plan? The massing and land use of both Corus and George Brown is in broad congruence with the precinct plan; the organization of parks and open space is pretty much the same as in the plan; the location of Parkside - the new tower development - is exactly where the precinct plan specified towers should be and the waterfront promenade envisioned in the Koetter Kim scheme is basically followed by West 8. If you know what you are talking about - then you should know that a precinct plan wouldn't specify details to the point of naming what building goes where in general. If EBF is a miscarriage of planning - then god, we can use a truckload of RU486 in Toronto.
But of course, we have been through this before:
http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.p...Bayfront-Dockside-7s-D-S)&p=340618#post340618
AoD
How is East Bayfront a) a miscarriage of urban planning and b) look nothing like the original precinct plan? The massing and land use of both Corus and George Brown is in broad congruence with the precinct plan; the organization of parks and open space is pretty much the same as in the plan; the location of Parkside - the new tower development - is exactly where the precinct plan specified towers should be and the waterfront promenade envisioned in the Koetter Kim scheme is basically followed by West 8. If you know what you are talking about - then you should know that a precinct plan wouldn't specify details to the point of naming what building goes where in general. If EBF is a miscarriage of planning - then god, we can use a truckload of RU486 in Toronto.
But of course, we have been through this before:
http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.p...Bayfront-Dockside-7s-D-S)&p=340618#post340618
AoD
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AlvinofDiaspar
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marcus_a_j
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Enlighten us.
UrbanAffair
Senior Member
So what are u suggesting????? Super talls all along the waterfront blocking out any semblance of a connection with the city? There are taller buildings planned too, but shorter buildings with a variety of uses seems like a good way to have people staying near the waterfront, especially george brown, which will keep people in the area all day and late in to the night.. Not really sure what would be much better for this location?
I am not a city planner by any means but it seems to be the plan is fairly good. Mixed uses of residential, commercial and job lands, community parks and public spaces, educational properties that mean more jobs and students for the area and the hopeful restaurants and other retail that will come with this plan seems pretty solid and sensible to me.
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