Hamilton 11 Robert Street | 19m | 6s | Yoke Group | Lintack Architects

[Chris R.]

I'll take 10,000 of these in Toronto alone on our residential side streets in the next 10 years (and with an emphasis on spacious unit sizes). We're not a small city of 200,000 anymore to have a few main streets with density and then endless streets of single family houses. Yet that's how the city is seemingly planned.

This is really appropriate density for every single neighbourhood in my mind. Throwing a few of these in everywhere would help a lot, in addition having the commercial unit on the first floor could mean a dentist office here, pharmacy there, cafe around the corner, and a small grocer another street over. Many driving trips could be replaced with a 5 minute walk.

 

[Branden Simon]

There will be a Planned tower crane removal on November 16

 

[Chris R.]

Some pics of the spray foam insulation on the exterior and the bricks that are on site. Today:

 

[TheHonestMaple]

Real bricks! Nice.

 

[jake_ham]

Crane is coming down.

 

[Chris R.]

I'm surprised by how long this took. I haven't been watching it every day obviously but it seems they haven't used the crane for months. Similar situation over at the Augusta block.

Unless they own the crane, seems like a costly thing to continue renting? I'm not sure I know the ins and outs though.

 

[Chris R.]

Spandrel panels are in, and they're.. eh. I'm not in love with it, but it looks okay. I'd have gone with a darker colour or even just used more reflective glass to avoid seeing such a distinct colour behind the glass panels

 

[jta5]

Photo from this week form Flickr by Joe

 

[Chris R.]

Photo from this week form Flickr by Joe

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I checked it out at night, but there weren't good photos to be had. I was a bit surprised to see that none of the brick that was delivered almost a month prior had been installed.

 

[KingJames]

Think I prefer that metal post (now wrapped back to building in green ) to have been left open (sort of blocks view from rooms for no real purpose)..

 

[Chris R.]

Today, brick going in, one of the guys waving:

 

[Chronamut]

Man look at all the beautiful brickwork on the building next door.. feels like a lost art..

 

[egotrippin]

Man look at all the beautiful brickwork on the building next door.. feels like a lost art..

Oh it absolutely is a lost art. You can tell how starved we are for quality when we get excited simply because a project is even using real brick at all.

 

[Chronamut]

Oh it absolutely is a lost art. You can tell how starved we are for quality when we get excited simply because a project is even using real brick at all.

lol.. that's both funny and sad...

 

[Canuck905]