3 years later this would be torn down in favor of the One Yonge St slab -
No that was torn down for First Canadian Place.
There's one thing I'm willing to bank on: whatever goes up will make the current building look tiny.
I'll speak in favour of developing the giant parking lot and preserving the Star building: it's actualy pretty decent period architecture.
The thing about concrete/brutalist structures is that they can be incredibly reflective of their context: surround them with empty crumbling concrete lots and they can indeed feel cold and brutal, and yet surround them with decent buildings or with nature and they really come into their own.
There's one thing I'm willing to bank on: whatever goes up will make the current building look tiny.
Agreed -- I don't understand the hate for this at all. At worst it's mediocre brutalism. There are hundreds of uglier buildings in Toronto.
i just hate this architecture.... i really dont like it at all.... At least i was born in the 90's.... Ugh i dont pity you guys but i just cant believe you survived the effects of the 70's architecture
Change its context, and you'll see people's views of it change as well.
I love the glowy, handmade look of the rendering. Thanks for posting.
So...is the the whole lot we're talking about?
Or just part?
Correct me if I'm wrong here.
I put the red line around the low buildings at the back - I'm presuming they're the ones to be demolished for parking.
The blue line is the Star building more or less intact.
The yellow line goes around what I think might be the portion to be severed.
That northern parcel is really large. Goodness.