Edward
Senior Member
It would be cool if they had a model of that somewhere.
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Waterfront: WATERFRONToronto Rendering
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Fair Comment
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Tearing down the Gardiner and putting a "park deck" over it is the best idea I have heard in a long time.
What is up (or down!) with the Gardiner Expressway plan? Wasn't that studied by WaterfronToronto 2 years ago! Why isn't anything happening with their plan?
TrickyRicky
Senior Member
It's good to see some of these buildings actually going up now but for the most part this rendering remains in the realm of urban planning porn.
ganjavih
Senior Member
Sometimes porn's all you got...
ShonTron
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It does fold out like Spacing's very own centrefold!
I see it coming together, though Project Symphony isn't shown. (A case of the right hand - TWRC, not knowing what the left hand - TEDCO, is doing).
I see it coming together, though Project Symphony isn't shown. (A case of the right hand - TWRC, not knowing what the left hand - TEDCO, is doing).
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Hydrogen
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Which makes it kinda like a Playboy centrefold: enticing, but not actually all that real-looking.
spaced
Active Member
The city has no money and Fed's/Province don't care. It'll take one of the section to collapse before something is done. Unfortunately it'll probably just be repaired for those precious votes coming in from mississauga.
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kpd
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Okay, either someone has taken extreme artistic licence with this drawing, or WaterfronToronto has axed one its own projects - namely, the Commissioners Street Park What the heck??
While the waterfront IS improving, its taking far too long and still lacks anything monumental to show forward movement. I wish the governments with jurisdiction over Toronto could get their bloody acts together.
/end rant
While the waterfront IS improving, its taking far too long and still lacks anything monumental to show forward movement. I wish the governments with jurisdiction over Toronto could get their bloody acts together.
/end rant
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
kpd:
I believe Commissioner's Park has been axed - but honestly, I am not missing it much in the context of what MVVA's Lower Donlands plan is offering to the district as a whole.
AoD
I believe Commissioner's Park has been axed - but honestly, I am not missing it much in the context of what MVVA's Lower Donlands plan is offering to the district as a whole.
AoD
unimaginative2
Senior Member
That's right, AoD, and I agree that its replacement is much better.
I think Project Symphony is visible in that rendering...
I think Project Symphony is visible in that rendering...
jmacmillan
Active Member
"It would be cool if they had a model of that somewhere."
There was a model on display at the public forum at BCE Place on May 8th, announcing the winning team for the mouth of the Don competition. I'm hoping they add on to it to show the whole waterfront.
There was a model on display at the public forum at BCE Place on May 8th, announcing the winning team for the mouth of the Don competition. I'm hoping they add on to it to show the whole waterfront.
3Dementia
Senior Member
From a friend at SSP who added a few odds 'n ends to the Urban Strategies render.
Cities around the world are looking at waterfront regeneration as a key strategy to reinvigorate their urban fabric. Reclamation of waterfront brown fields and other green initiatives, renewed interest in waterfront living/recreation and declining ports reimagined as meccas of tourism and clean industrial/commercial precincts.
POST your urban waterfront aspirations.
To start things off, I attach an aerial snapshot (base image courtesy of an Urban Strategies) that utilizes a downtown Toronto waterfront render that I have colour-coded to show the breadth of planned and active waterfront regeneration.
Though the waterfront skyline of Toronto is probably the best known perspective, most of the dense/tall spine of the city runs north/south... just above this east/west waterfront image (you can glimpse a piece of the financial district at the top).
Toronto's harbour no longer serves a busy port (with a handful of exceptions) and the city and private developers are embarking on a journey to reinvent the entire "front door" of the city... the final price tag can only be guessed however it will be measured in the tens of billions of dollars.
Look forward to seeing your city's plans to embrace the H2O that lives next door.
Cities around the world are looking at waterfront regeneration as a key strategy to reinvigorate their urban fabric. Reclamation of waterfront brown fields and other green initiatives, renewed interest in waterfront living/recreation and declining ports reimagined as meccas of tourism and clean industrial/commercial precincts.
POST your urban waterfront aspirations.
To start things off, I attach an aerial snapshot (base image courtesy of an Urban Strategies) that utilizes a downtown Toronto waterfront render that I have colour-coded to show the breadth of planned and active waterfront regeneration.
Though the waterfront skyline of Toronto is probably the best known perspective, most of the dense/tall spine of the city runs north/south... just above this east/west waterfront image (you can glimpse a piece of the financial district at the top).
Toronto's harbour no longer serves a busy port (with a handful of exceptions) and the city and private developers are embarking on a journey to reinvent the entire "front door" of the city... the final price tag can only be guessed however it will be measured in the tens of billions of dollars.
Look forward to seeing your city's plans to embrace the H2O that lives next door.
lordmandeep
Banned
it appears the section from the East Bayfront westward can be finished in about 4-5 years as most is built or U/c.
The other side is a long long time away.
The other side is a long long time away.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
3D:
Pssst - just so you know, the little bit between Queen's Quay Terminal and Power Plant isn't built yet.
AoD
Pssst - just so you know, the little bit between Queen's Quay Terminal and Power Plant isn't built yet.
AoD
JasonParis
Moderator
Is that the site of the never talked about anymore Canada Square?