3Dementia
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@Johnny Au ... don't be "SAD"
lol.
As NL mentioned above, he accidentally posted a link for 619 Yonge not 645 Yonge.
lol. As NL mentioned above, he accidentally posted a link for 619 Yonge not 645 Yonge.
Toronto 645 Yonge | 280m | 76s | KingSett Capital | AS + GG
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Agreed. But this needs to be as big as possible.@Johnny Au ... don't be "SAD"
As NL mentioned above, he accidentally posted a link for 619 Yonge not 645 Yonge.
Application Details
www.toronto.ca
February resubmission with the following changes:
- Total residential units increased from 678 to 789
- Total vehicular parking reduced from 44 to 1
- Total bicycle parking increased from 679 to 888
- Underground levels reduced from 4 to 1
Renderings:
Massing:
ushahid
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why spend money on a expensive architect firm when you are not interested in building it.
Northern Light
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Discussion of the reason for the parking change can be found the correspondence.
The Preservationist
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I'd be interested to know what the premium is for the 1 parking spot...
Northern Light
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Not much, its at-grade, squeezed between the elevator core and the electrical vault and in front of the loading zone.
In that spot, it would never have been residential space or retail.
Visitor space in top-left of image, Yonge is not seen here it would be at the bottom.
3Dementia
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- Underground levels reduced from 4 to 1
Then I remembered they built the 1/2 mile high Burj Kalifa on sand and it's still standing (thanks to a giant raft foundation 15 metres thick atop 194 friction piles 50 metres deep… yes I looked it up ;-)
UtakataNoAnnex
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...because KingSett can sell this to the likes of Concord, Marlin Spring or Pemberton for a padded price, so they can bring in their own architects to build something of equal scale...but for considerably less cost. And to put it politely. /blehwhy spend money on a expensive architect firm when you are not interested in building it.
Koops65
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Northern Light
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Decision Report - Approval Recommended to the next meeting of TEYCC:
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The owners of the Artful Dodger have retained counsel and are trying to oppose this.............
If the third party appeal to the OLT is not permitted here; this could be a test case of whether that will stand up in divisional court....... TBD.
If the third party appeal to the OLT is not permitted here; this could be a test case of whether that will stand up in divisional court....... TBD.
Redroom Studios
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the shape of the building is great... the cladding looks like the typical cheap blue glass that we see on 90% of other developments. if they made this black and used higher quality materials and detailing this would be a real winner.
LUVIT!
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Rocket man! That's what this building reminds me of!!
amh
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1. There is no building or anything close to it, so I'm not sure what you're commenting on beyond renderings or the drawings, in which case, refer to 2.
2. The drawings are as non-committal as any RZ/ZBA drawing set, but they indicate — where there is any annotation about cladding — that it would be curtainwall. So it's not the typical "cheap blue glass", for starters.
3. The anecdote about black glass is wholly subjective, so I won't comment on that, but the design and choice of architect implies a series of details that are a cut above the usual Toronto condo. (AS/GG's work speaks for itself when it comes to commercial grade highrise work and the details that go along with that. A local testament is the facade at TD Terrace, although that's an office tower, so of course it's a different tier in terms of budget and detailing.) This project is currently as imaginary as they get at any rate (it's also KingSett), but I don't understand the criticism levelled at what actually represents the seed of an idea that is better than a lot of the stuff that is proposed to line Yonge Street.
I'm not typically a massive fan of AS/GG, architecturally speaking, nor a design with these sorts of curves, and it compounds it that KingSett is good at creating these teasers that are actually a land-value exercise and nothing more... but I still find myself wanting to defend this project because I think it actually has a number of interesting architectural aspirations in it. (Also that sting-ray tail looks like it wants to be a solar chimney or something and it makes the undergrad architecture student in me light up.)
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