Toronto 28 Eastern | 45.4m | 12s | Alterra | Teeple Architects

Nightfall.

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It's a great irony that the stepping adds so much more bulk to this building than if they had just done minimal stepbacks and chosen a shallower floorplate.
Yet another example of filling up the entire lot (while meeting the city's stepping requirements, *dusts hands*) instead of looking at what is actually appropriate for the site, for the street, and how to create a good residential floorplate.
 
amh said:
It's a great irony that the stepping adds so much more bulk to this building than if they had just done minimal stepbacks and chosen a shallower floorplate.
Yet another example of filling up the entire lot (while meeting the city's stepping requirements, *dusts hands*) instead of looking at what is actually appropriate for the site, for the street, and how to create a good residential floorplate.
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To be clear, those requirements have changed since this was approved.

Those steps (the sheer number) are no longer required. Larger floor plates and fewer step backs are now the norm.
 
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I'm aware of that. I think larger floorplates are non-ideal. But the stepping requirements were really masking the issue.
 
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