Toronto Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

[officedweller]

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I like how it relates to the window grid of the former MetroCentre.

 

[RyanD]

Does anyone know how they are managing residential intake/exhaust in this building? The facade seems to have no louvres.

 

[Oswaldo]

Does anyone know how they are managing residential intake/exhaust in this building? The facade seems to have no louvres.

if you look at some of the close up shots of the facade on page 573, you can see the grills right below the spandrel in the glass portion of the facade. On the close ups of the metal facade they are hidden in the bottoms of the horizontal panels. Some pull tight to the glass, while some have a gap. intake and exhaust are there.

 

[RyanD]

if you look at some of the close up shots of the facade on page 573, you can see the grills right below the spandrel in the glass portion of the facade. On the close ups of the metal facade they are hidden in the bottoms of the horizontal panels. Some pull tight to the glass, while some have a gap. intake and exhaust are there.

Thank you! Very clean design!

 

[xmyth_]

Apart from the “ooh I like tall!” What would be the reason to bump the height on the second tower? Are there not enough nearby towers to keep the tiny No Frills busy…before it becomes condo towers too? Is there a max density for this area? All I’m seeing on tiktok is people complaining that there used to be cool nite clubs in the area.

 

[Rascacielo]

Today

 

[DarwinP]

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it’s looking so beautiful and shiny like a cheese grater paired with the Royal Alexandra theatre representing the cheese, this is an iconic pair.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...it's a smexy cheese grater though. <3

 

[Undead]

Of course the city did. It's Toronto.. Wouldn't want us to have anything to nice now would they...

A tower being a supertall has nothing to do with being good for a city.

 

[officedweller]

if you look at some of the close up shots of the facade on page 573, you can see the grills right below the spandrel in the glass portion of the facade. On the close ups of the metal facade they are hidden in the bottoms of the horizontal panels. Some pull tight to the glass, while some have a gap. intake and exhaust are there.

Those are super narrow. I wonder if they'll clog easily?

 

[AlbertC]

Starting to emerge in this view from Nathan Phillips Square

 

[ImmenselyMental]

Here is a full slate of photos I took of Forma yesterday evening before dinner, starting from John and Richmond:

Been a while since the last time I took photos from the northwest corner of Duncan and Pearl, so here it is:

Ultra-wide shot from the previous angle:

 

[Strange Advance]

Is our friend Contra around to do up a progress diagram for us?

 

[C-mac]

A tower being a supertall has nothing to do with being good for a city.

You're absolutely fooling yourself if you believe that. Supertall's and big beautiful sky scrapers are a symbol of a city's economic power, engineering strength, and helps create a beautiful skyline which many cities are judged by. To say that supertalls "have nothing to do with being good for a city" couldn't be further from the truth.