Bruvyman
Active Member
The exterior render shows how this building might look sans Gardiner
Toronto Quartz at Concord CityPlace | 131.97m | 41s | Concord Adex | RAW Design
- Thread starter Mike in TO
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Okay, time to satisfy those with renderporn cravings again with a close-up look at some of the images from the previous page.
We know, of course, how much many of you love to pore over these renderings, and we know how seldom it is that you get a really good look at these. Typically these images are created at 3000 pixels wide - give or take a thousand pixels - but if you were checking them out at most other places on the internet, you might think that 300 pixels wide was more the norm.
Read us regularly, and you will know that our front page articles feature images at 750 pixels in width, so that's typically what we run in the threads when we are going to feature the images in articles as well. While that's better than other sites normally run, that's still a lot less than original size, meaning that lots of detail in the original renderings tends to get lost. The artists at places like Designstor, where these renderings were created, have likely gotten used to much of their painstaking work being overlooked because of the miniaturization, but at UrbanToronto we like to find the pictures-in-the-pictures, and carve them out for you to ogle. Let's see what we can learn about Quartz that we did not know before.
First, to recap, Quartz in context. The elevated Gardiner runs just south of Housey Street, the access road seen below. Canoe Landing Park is seen across Dan Leckie Way to the east.
Close-up on the Quartz complex; 41 storey tower and 6 storey amenity building.
Let's look closer at parts of the project, starting with the amenity building.
Here's how the tower meets the street.
At the top we see both clear and tinted glass panels along the roof edge, and running down the southeast edge of the tower. It looks like that may be the case on the northwest vertical edge as well.
Here's Quartz's lobby.
A closer look reveals some of the detail near the concierge desk.
Here's Quartz's indoor pool.
Zeroing in on the view into the courtyard reveals an outdoor hot tub.
Quartz's first 200 suites have sold out quickly. A final release is coming shortly.
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We know, of course, how much many of you love to pore over these renderings, and we know how seldom it is that you get a really good look at these. Typically these images are created at 3000 pixels wide - give or take a thousand pixels - but if you were checking them out at most other places on the internet, you might think that 300 pixels wide was more the norm.
Read us regularly, and you will know that our front page articles feature images at 750 pixels in width, so that's typically what we run in the threads when we are going to feature the images in articles as well. While that's better than other sites normally run, that's still a lot less than original size, meaning that lots of detail in the original renderings tends to get lost. The artists at places like Designstor, where these renderings were created, have likely gotten used to much of their painstaking work being overlooked because of the miniaturization, but at UrbanToronto we like to find the pictures-in-the-pictures, and carve them out for you to ogle. Let's see what we can learn about Quartz that we did not know before.
First, to recap, Quartz in context. The elevated Gardiner runs just south of Housey Street, the access road seen below. Canoe Landing Park is seen across Dan Leckie Way to the east.
Close-up on the Quartz complex; 41 storey tower and 6 storey amenity building.
Let's look closer at parts of the project, starting with the amenity building.
Here's how the tower meets the street.
At the top we see both clear and tinted glass panels along the roof edge, and running down the southeast edge of the tower. It looks like that may be the case on the northwest vertical edge as well.
Here's Quartz's lobby.
A closer look reveals some of the detail near the concierge desk.
Here's Quartz's indoor pool.
Zeroing in on the view into the courtyard reveals an outdoor hot tub.
Quartz's first 200 suites have sold out quickly. A final release is coming shortly.
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TheKingEast
Senior Member
Holy spandrel batman!
gristle
Senior Member
^You bet!
Looks like just another City Place building.
Looks like just another City Place building.
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
42, did you by any chance get a Site Plan for Block 33 (and Block 37 for that matter)?
TheBoss
New Member
Oh Cityplace! *Sigh*
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
Architect is Raw Design.
Solaris
Senior Member
Scaled Model
The Building
The Recreation Centre
The Podium
The Courtyard / Drop-Off Area
The Building
The Recreation Centre
The Podium
The Courtyard / Drop-Off Area
Therion
Senior Member
Looks like considerably more attention to detail has been paid to this project than the other Cityplace towers. Perhaps the developers were shamed into some actual design by the slew of interesting projects that have been released in the last 18 months. I actually quite like the amenities building, but the off-white of the tower is totally boring.
taal
Senior Member
I actually really don't understand these sort of messages ... if you're referring to some of the interesting elements on the base then sure, I'll give you that. I hate the giant standalone amenity center.
Anyway my point is some of the orginal cityplace buildings are actually very nice from the 2nd floor up. Take H1 and H2 (i.e. the ones across each other from Spadina. If those were built anywhere else we'd all comment on how interesting the design was, it not a plain box, they both have curves to them:
Curtiosy of TOBuilt, and it's not a great picture either.
This applies to many other towers, West One, Montage, ...
In my opinion, as high rises (i.e. 20+) go, and I'm being completely honest here, cityplace as some of the most attractive new construction built in Toronto over the last 10/15 years. Admittedly some of the projects (particularly the very early phase) were not so great.
Where they fail is how they meet the street but it seems as if this one will be no exception in that regard.
gristle
Senior Member
Personally speaking, I find the grey monotony west of Spadina dull. I would agree that the big failure of City Place lies at the street level.
Torontovibe
Senior Member
And yet, how a building meets the street, is the most important thing. That's why I consider Cityplace such a big failure. The city should have demanded changes.
Red Mars
Senior Member
Re: Block 37
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Wow..they are moving along quick on the final phases...i guess its bye bye to Amsterdam Brewery.
RC8
Senior Member
Are they planning on tearing that building down? That's horrible if so. Amsterdam Brewery adds immensely to the neighbourhood.