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An application submitted to the City of Toronto earlier this month updates a 2018 proposal tabled by Chestnut Hill Developments for a site at Marlee and Glencairn avenues, just west of Glencairn subway station in Toronto's Glen Park area. A 2019 resubmission proposed several refinements, and now, the plan has been further refined in response to comments from City staff, leading to the most recent August, 2020 application for Site Plan Approval (SPA).
The Kirkor Architects-designed building dubbed 'The Dylan' was originally planned with a total height of 32.9 metres. The 2019 resubmission made each storey taller and increased the overall height to 35.7 metres, a height that remains in the current submission. Suites rise up to the tenth storey while on the 11th floor, a rooftop amenity shares space with a mechanical penthouse.
The building has a proposed total gross floor area of 16,876 m², increasing from 16,265 m² in the previous submission, with 15,903 m² of residential space, and retail at ground level. The current proposal calls for 218 condominium units, down from the 224 units planned in 2018. While that number is unchanged from the 2019 submission, the unit breakdown has been altered and is now planned in a mix of 163 (up from 160) one-bedrooms, 38 (down from 41) two-bedrooms, and 17 three-bedroom units.
Standing out from the more minor changes in the latest SPA application, articulation has been brought to the building's slab-like frontage along Marlee Avenue, its terraced massing to the west, and its smaller elevations to the north and south, through blocks of dark and light finishes to break up the massing.
The range of finishes include precast concrete, stone veneer masonry cladding, a window wall system with louvre grills and opaque spandrel panels framed in aluminum mullions, along with metal panel and curtainwall glazing at ground level. Many of the materials are proposed in both dark and light varietions to execute the exterior expression.
You can learn more from our Database file for the project, linked below. If you'd like to, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread, or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.
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