Toronto Quay House | 73.15m | 21s | Empire | Kirkor

[jxmyth_]

I mean, they make the janky Daniels towers seem less crappy…

 

[Riseth]

I mean, they make the janky Daniels towers seem less crappy…

They're still bad as ever. This just adds to the mess down there.

 

[jxmyth_]

Sure but don’t we make it look like the future by covering everything in plants?

 

[flonicky]

I was surprised that this was still under construction. I'd assumed that it was so depressing, that everyone working on it had given up and quit.

The street level is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Amare]

I was surprised that this was still under construction. I'd assumed that it was so depressing, that everyone working on it had given up and quit.

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The street level is absolutely ridiculous.

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Just another reason why most of our waterfront is a world-class embarrassment (except for the few slivers that Waterfront Toronto is keeping the city from ruining, and from York to Spadina).

 

[Paclo]

Yesterday

 

[rdaner]

Taken 6 October.

 

[Lachlan Holmes]

I actually think the massing on this one is rather unique and handsome — which is why the cladding is so unfortunate. Wednesday:

 

[Red October]

The whole area (minus a rare few) was a complete blank slate that was absolutely shanked into the harbour

 

[Riseth]

November 1, 2024

 

[Riseth]

November 6, 2024

 

[DSC]

Just walked past and noticed that they screwed up on the elevations so the front doors are reached by going up steps. Yes, there is (in essence) a two-height sidewalk but this is really not up to the AODA aspirations and just laziness on someone's part.

 

[rdaner]

Taken 18 November.

 

[Amare]

Just walked past and noticed that they screwed up on the elevations so the front doors are reached by going up steps. Yes, there is (in essence) a two-height sidewalk but this is really not up to the AODA aspirations and just laziness on someone's part.

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Then add to the fact that the streetwall here looks like an embarrassment, and overall what we have here is an appalling piece of trash all around.

Essentially we have a piece of narrow sidewalk that shouldnt be there.

 

[DSC]

Just walked past and noticed that they screwed up on the elevations so the front doors are reached by going up steps. Yes, there is (in essence) a two-height sidewalk but this is really not up to the AODA aspirations and just laziness on someone's part.

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I wrote to Planning about the sidewalk levels and received the following quite hopeful message - well, hopeful IF we ever see the LRT!

".... good question – this streetscape is an interim condition that will exist until Queens Quay East is reconstructed for the Waterfront East LRT. The interim condition has to negotiate a difference between the existing grade of Queens Quay and the building designed at the future level of the street, which will be slightly higher (similar to what’s been constructed on the other side Richardson – see screenshot below). The ultimate condition will have continuous level sidewalk, as illustrated in these cross-sections: