Toronto O2 Toronto | 48.16m | 14s | Identity | P + S / IBI

[adma]

When the Windsor Arms Hotel on Thomas Street was modified for a condo, the developer said that it was too difficult to work with the existing building, so it was dismantled. What you see today is a facsimile (albeit using salvaged material) of the hotel. There are other examples. The old house on the southwest corner of Sherbourne and Adelaide (?) was torn down/dismantled and rebuilt like new. Hmmm.. Would the concrete floors inside be a giveaway? (At least, it's better than saving a facade which reminds me of the aliens in Star Trek Voyager called the Vidiians, who combated a disease called the Phage by grafting on body parts from other races.)

And of course, don't forget the pending Pretzel Bell resurrection at the Shangri-La--or the old Rawlinson's warehouses on St Joseph...

 

[Mike in TO]

The Ontario Municipal Board has approved a settlement between the city and the developer. The proposal started out at 20s and throught a number of revisions is now approved for 14s stepping down to 12s with a number of townhomes on Shuter Street. The project will included about 50 units. In May council approved a motion by Kyle Rae to accept the recent proposal and that settlement was approved by the OMB, thus avoiding a long hearing.

 

[Towered]

The townhomes should be in the form of a fully rebuilt Walnut Hall.

 

[urbandreamer]

Mods, looks like I goofed, as Empire Commuinites new Oxygen Condominiums is this site--50 units. http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?15700-Oxygen-Condominiums-George-and-Shuter-(Empire-)

What a terrible place to live! Straight to rentals here imo, and they had better be really cheap, as in Hamilton cheap!

 

[GrinTO]

Does anyone know what is/was proposed for the huge parking lot between Shutter and Queen just east of Jazz? There is an old notification sign on the Queen street side but I keep forgetting to get the info off it. It must be one of the largest undeveloped blocks left in the downtown core.

 

[interchange42]

Grin, that property is subject to conjecture in a thread here.

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[AlbertC]

Oxygen model

 

[AlbertC]

Looks decent.

 

[androiduk]

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[interchange42]

A bit more about this project:

Empire is not the owner of O2 Maisonettes, (renamed from Oxygen Condos), but is consulting on a sales and marketing basis, as well as constructing the building; consider them Project Managers. Identity Developments and Stal Inc. are owners. Architects are Page + Steele / IBI Group. Website for the project is http://www.o2toronto.com/ The building is 14 storeys tall, although the images can be read as 16 storeys: the higher portion behind the visor at top is merely the mechanical box. The emphasis here is on two storey suites, the maisonettes in the building's marketing parlance.


In context

Closer up

Focusing on the podium suites

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

This looks remarkably similar to the little, slim condo on the NW corner of Sherbourne & Richmond. Bigger, but the two-story suite style.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Kind of mirrors the Grand in the background.

 

[interchange42]

More and larger renderings of the back side to of the building to add to the story now:

Focusing on the two-storey units here:

Lobby:

 

[AlbertC]

Anyone know what's the situation on this project? Seems to have gone awfully quiet.

 

[BMyers]

Empire is no longer handling the sales component.