TeaHouse 501 Yonge Condos is one of those rare Toronto buildings that successfully plays around with a grid. While many buildings these days stagger windows willy-nilly, trying to avoid the relentless grid, may of those attempts to break free of Toronto's boxy rigidity fail to impress. The opposite is true here; with higher floors pushed back successively further from its Yonge Street frontage, the North Tower at TeaHouse Condos attaches the the grid to a sine curve instead of a perfectly vertical wall, this simple gesture making for a confident and pleasing contrast with the typical tower in this town… which is exemplified by the vertical box of TeaHouse Condo's much taller and totally orthogonal South Tower, not seen in this image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Benito.

The North Tower at TeaHouse Condos recesses successively further back from the building's Yonge Street frontage, the higher it goes, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Benito

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