Toronto St Lawrence Condos at 158 Front | 91.44m | 26s | Cityzen | a—A

[Tulse]

It's nice to see a tower project where mass and texture take priority over glass, glass, glass.

Absolutely -- this is like a breath of fresh air after all the blue-green glass towers. I get a very late '50s - early '60s vibe from it, but in a good way.

 

[ladyscraper]

This looks very cool... I just wonder what material it is for all the pale surfaces?

 

[Cityzen]

Hey All,

Here's the first look at the renderings for the site. Hope you enjoy!

http://blog.mycondomylife.com/cityz...enderings-for-our-154-front-st-east-site.html

 

[interchange42]

Here's what we've just put up on the front page:

UrbanToronto has received early images of a new condo project being developed by Cityzen on Front Street East. The design concept, by Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance, features a pair of towers sprouting from an 8-storey podium, rising to 24 and 34 storeys, and joined by a skybridge at the 25th floor. The proposal, which will replace the Greyhound Bus Parcel Express depot, is working its way through community meetings at the beginning of the approval process.

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After 'X The Condominium' and 'U Condos' in this city, as well as Cityzen's own 'L-Tower', we're not seeing the 'd' tower here are we? Frankly that name would rate an 'F'. We like the initial plan we see here, and we anticipate an interesting final plan as this project works its way toward the market: refinements to the design are expected in the coming months.

 

[CanadianNational]

If you're going to do boxes, you might as well do them this well.

I think this will be a real boon to the neighbourhood. Is that real limestone on the base?!

 

[SP!RE]

It strikes me as a bit Corbusian... very cool. I'd like to see brick on the podium and maybe to see the entire design softened a bit, which I think will happen no matter what since this is, after all, a very preliminary rendering.

 

[Mongo]

Wow. Two thumbs up on this design. Here's hoping that it gets through City approval unscathed.

 

[dcc008]

If you're going to do boxes, you might as well do them this well.

I think this will be a real boon to the neighbourhood. Is that real limestone on the base?!

Yup, looks like limestone precast.

 

[doug]

Yup, looks like limestone precast.

How do you 'precast' limestone?

 

[Irishmonk]

The Man gives good box. But I would love to see what Teeple would do with a project like this.

 

[egotrippin]

How do you 'precast' limestone?

Precast concrete designed to look like limestone. Real limestone would be nice, but I've seen decent approximations.

 

[Edward Skira]

Cityzen confirms it is real stone and not cast concrete.

 

[Urban Shocker]

And real trees?

 

[SP!RE]

Cityzen confirms it is real stone and not cast concrete.

It's neither... it's a rendering and probably going to change a lot before anything comes to fruition.

 

[condovo]

An intelligent, sophisticated design. Vaguely reminiscent of 60 Richmond. The bar has been raised again in Toronto.