Toronto Union Park | 303.26m | 58s | Oxford Properties | Pelli Clarke Pelli

[balenciaga]

I dont know about doubling the height when they are already proposing 222m and 235 meters

to have a 400 meter tower is not the end of the world. Plenty of cities have those.
Of course we all know that won't happen even in 30 years

 

[E.B.]

Yeah, why do 4 bank buildings need to own the city's heights forever? Makes no sense.

I agree. With that logic we wouldn't have built anything taller than TD Centre because that was the first or better yet the royal york. Do the planners think that in 100 years the same heights should be adhered to.

 

[innsertnamehere]

had a go at the future skyline:

 

[balenciaga]

^ looks fantastic.
I however look forward for something more glamourous east of Yonge St. Yonge is our main artery but somehow serves as the ending street as well.

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

This will block my view of Beaverton when I go to 360 Restaurant for dinner.. They should move it or chop it down.

 

[someMidTowner]

This will block my view of Beaverton when I go to 360 Restaurant for dinner.. They should move it or chop it down.

Hah, thanks for the laugh. Don't worry, I'm sure Oxford Place will have an observation deck with a restaurant - and who knows, maybe the restaurant won't suck like 360.

Great post innsertnamehere. That is quite the dramatic change.

 

[hihihi]

I would love to see what the view from the gardener or even just a shot from humber bay shores would be like...

 

[MatthewK]

I do want towers taller than the bank buildings, but I think that skyline looks awkward. I'm really coming to appreciate the cone-ideal that height zoning aimed for. Now that it's being ditched I hope we still are trying to shape something definitive.

 

[fedplanner]

I do want towers taller than the bank buildings, but I think that skyline looks awkward. I'm really coming to appreciate the cone-ideal that height zoning aimed for. Now that it's being ditched I hope we still are trying to shape something definitive.

I'm glad that the skyline clone policy, with FCP being the apex, is being shredded thanks to this development and Mirvish's.

Although I believe 000 is just trolling, he's probably right about the planning department wanting to scale down the height of these buildings and make them slimmer per the planning policies currently in force. Therefore, I challenge the supporters of this development to make their voice heard when it comes to public hearings.

 

[000]

I will eat humble pie if they let this go through without any changes. The design itself is fantastic, but this together with Mirvish is an obviously unprecedented request for the area. There certainly are a lot of changes happening at once. When Scotia Plaza was built and requested more air rights, the sec 37 funds were given to TCH in trust and later used to build co-ops on Bathurst Quay. I haven't looked where money from new construction in the Southcore is going now, aside from 10 York moving the gardiner ramp and parkettes, but it seems little, and I hope with so much demand to build up, that the city can squeeze out more money out of developers seeking variances via sec 37, and invest back into the community in a lasting way (e.g. for starters, by completing the second half of the Northwest PATH)

 

[DtTO]

The city should be able to sustain itself from property tax alone. Transit expansion should be a priority of the federal and provincial governments, and section 37 funds should not even exist. Why do developers have to apply for rezoning to build a 100m tower in the middle of the nation's largest downtown? Its absolutely ridiculous. We are using planning schemes from when the city had very few skyscrapers. It annoys me that the city needs these extra funds just to be able to expand mass transit. The DRL and other transit projects should be guaranteed, not dependent on some illogical funds that will dry up when the boom is over.

 

[3Dementia]

With apologies to Oxford and Sir Norman. A different look.

Borrowed the towers from my Roy Thomson Hall condo (when they were hurting for $) which was scribbled before L Tower was grafted onto the Sony Centre. Note Arthur Erickson's originally planned roof for RTH.

I recycle.

 

[Conrad Black]

Time for a future skyline update 3D!

 

[3Dementia]

You may see some such thing sooner than you think... perhaps inked on paper.

 

[TrickyRicky]

These renderings remind me of the "conceptual" south core renderings we saw in the early 1990's. It took 20 years for us to get to the point we are now where the buildings are actually pushing skywards.

On another note I was at the convention centre yesterday and I could see a temporary casino going in in the North Hall within 6 months at little cost if approval is granted for this site (The likelihood of that though is becoming less likely by the day).