Toronto House of Assembly | 61.85m | 17s | Marlin Spring | Graziani + Corazza

[rdaner]

Taken 7 September.

 

[rdaner]

Taken 13 September. Coffee at Ethica.

 

[evanb]

Surprising to see a Marlin Spring G&C project shaping up this nicely. Reminds me of some of the new buildings I saw in Chicago recently.

 

[innsertnamehere]

This is looking excellent by G+C standards so far. Still withholding judgement until we see the grade experience though.

 

[christiesplits]

Surprising to see a Marlin Spring G&C project shaping up this nicely. Reminds me of some of the new buildings I saw in Chicago recently.

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I can't believe this building is in Toronto. In 2024.

 

[GenerationLee]

I have a feeling ground level will be lousy, but otherwise this is looking shockingly good. Its a great fit for the area.

 

[AlbertC]

I feel like we should credit ourselves here. Potentially Marlin Spring head honchos are reading our kvetching of their past projects, and finally want to change their design initiatives for the better!

 

[mferna]

Read our new article highlighting this development here! https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/09/house-assembly-tops-junction-triangle.56918

 

[rdaner]

Taken 21 September.

Alert! The top floor of the Sterling Building is open for the Biennale and the views over the West End are great! Just need to clean the windows.

 

[junctionist]

I feel like we should credit ourselves here. Potentially Marlin Spring head honchos are reading our kvetching of their past projects, and finally want to change their design initiatives for the better!

I thought they did a great job with the Stockyards District condo. But you can see some subpar details even with one of their better projects that you wouldn't necessary get from other developers.

For instance, despite the Stockyards District's large mechanical penthouse, they still ended up topping the mechanical penthouse with exposed mechanical equipment (that's quite visible from the west). They also phoned it in with these cheap-looking poured concrete retaining walls along the residential side street, Symes Road.

At minimum, they should have done some textured board-formed concrete (Brutalist-style). I hope they handle the fine details better here and with phase 2 of their Stockyards development.

 

[rdaner]

^Look at all of those low-density warehouses! Can we say owned by a developer?!

 

[christiesplits]

Today.

 

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