Toronto Regent Park: Block 27 | 94.18m | 29s | TCHC | RAW Design

[interchange42]

Grey background, Grey building... really not a fan

Also seem like there aren't a lot of big or wall to ceiling windows in this building as well?

I'm aware that there was a building code change that requires more walls for insulation purposes, guess I won't be seeing corner units with expansive wrap around wall to ceiling windows anymore.
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If builders want to pop for more expensive (and better insulating) curtain wall, or a window wall-curtain wall hybrid, they can still go for more glass. You'll see some other buildings going up currently where the builder is spending some extra coin on higher quality glazing (like 411 Church), but in this case, this is a TCHC building, so they are not spending money on frills here. We're lucky we're getting any design gestures on this building at all.

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[Edward Skira]

Better looking than most condos we're getting.

 

[ProjectEnd]

It absolutely is not. It's a toss up between this and the high rise prison at College and Spadina but I think this takes the prize for the worst new build in the last X years.

 

[marcus_a_j]

The sad part is that every building that has been constructed as part of the RP Revitalization until this one has been relatively decent. This one has been so far off the mark.

 

[TheKingEast]

God Awful! RP had a nice start but some of the most recent buildings have taken a step in the wrong direction.

 

[radioheadmike]

God Awful! RP had a nice start but some of the most recent buildings have taken a step in the wrong direction.

I think this building is much uglier - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/regent-park-phase-2.9102/page-47

 

[TheKingEast]

I think this building is much uglier - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/regent-park-phase-2.9102/page-47

It is. But both buildings are terrible.

 

[junctionist]

It absolutely is not. It's a toss up between this and the high rise prison at College and Spadina but I think this takes the prize for the worst new build in the last X years.

I think it's an interesting design, though not without problems. The shifting colour of the facade and the shifting volumes are relatively unique design features. There are a lot of problems like the sheer amount of lines along the facade in the mullions. The shade of grey chosen for the colour shifting effect isn't that attractive. But I would say that it gives Regent Park the diversity and character that's painfully missing from Concord's sterile monoliths at Park Place on Sheppard at Leslie. Those towers are worse than this one from an architectural perspective.

 

[interchange42]

I think this building is much uglier - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/regent-park-phase-2.9102/page-47

I'm not in agreement. That one's not beautiful, but it has a funky quality to, a little Space Age swagger, copying the angles of that era.

The brick patterning is detailed, and the building adds warm colour to its block.

This one…

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does add a few warm dashes at townhouse level, but the rest of the blue accents on the gray just adds up to cold on cold for me. Plus this one is a million-mullion monster, and they look like cages to me.

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[Tim1234]

Is there a specific planning report just for this building/site? What is the FSI for this tower?

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

7.3

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[salsa]

This building could have looked decent if at least one of those shades of grey was any other colour.

 

[TheKingEast]

This looks depressing. Like, this is what we're building in 2018? Do they get some kind of subsidy for using grey? I dont' get it.

 

[jje1000]

The random horizontal bars don't quite work, and make things look messy.