Toronto Wonder | 31.7m | 8s | Graywood | Diamond Schmitt

[AlbertC]

Counting down the hours for when they stop occupying the sidewalk on Logan and Eastern. Pace has really picked up though. Eastern can handle this type of density all the way from DVP to the Beach.

Eastern certainly has tremendous potential. Hope to see more balanced growth along it with increased residential and various employment spaces gradually filling in the remaining empty spaces.

 

[AlbertC]

From Alterra's IG:

Alterra on Instagram: "A look at the construction progress at Wonder Condos #BuiltByAlterra"

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[3Dementia]

Wow ... had such high hopes for this one. That window-wall is unfortunately, unfortunate.

Nice reflections though.

 

[flonicky]

 

[AlbertC]

 

[Northern Light]

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About time you got back to your second home neighbourhood (Leslieville) again................

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The heritage here looks fine; but the modern above is very unfortunate, from the balconies, to the spandrel, to the colour, there's not much that shouldn't be absent or different.

 

[tripwire]

Yeah, the bottom brick part looks great. The top (new) part is complete hot garbage. Disappointing, as I do think it's a welcomed change to the neighbourhood.

Edit:
It reminds me a lot of The Berczy:

 

[Northern Light]

Yeah, the bottom brick part looks great. The top (new) part is complete hot garbage. Disappointing, as I do think it's a welcomed change to the neighbourhood.

Edit:
It reminds me a lot of The Berczy:
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Agreed; though at least at the Berczy those balconies and spandrel are set back a bit more, and less noticeable at close distances.

 

[Amare]

So much potential just squandered. Very bad execution by Graywood, i mean very very bad.

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

What on God's green earth is that

 

[TheKingEast]

Was looking at buying here in the past. Glad I didn't. This would have pissed me off. It looks like a steaming pile of dung. They were already gifted the existing structure, they messed everything else up.

 

[Northern Light]

To be clear, while much, much better could and should have been expected, two simple choices would have improved this immeasurably.

1) Dump the balconies. Given the setbacks they protrude far too much and draw too much attention away from the heritage.

2) Go dark. The grey colour on the spandrel really stands out in a bad way. Making it all black (including the window frames) would not save this mess, but would make it less conspicuous.

 

[TheKingEast]

To be clear, while much, much better could and should have been expected, two simple choices would have improved this immeasurably.

1) Dump the balconies. Given the setbacks they protrude far too much and draw too much attention away from the heritage.

2) Go dark. The grey colour on the spandrel really stands out in a bad way. Making it all black (including the window frames) would not save this mess, but would make it less conspicuous.

Dark was all they needed to do. I can't believe they pay people to make these bad decisions.

 

[TossYourJacket]

Somewhere, someone involved in this project mistook the line "we'll make millions" with "we'll make mullions" and this mess is the result.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

I marked up one of @AlbertC's recent pics just to show one area that had me shaking my head as I viewed the set (and that is far worse than anything on the Berczy):