TheKingEast
Senior Member
If spandrel was banned. What would Tridel do? Close up shop?
Toronto Argento Condos | 74m | 24s | Tridel | Rafael + Bigauskas
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Tridel has built a lot of brick clad buildings over the years. Only recently has it started with the glass.
Armour
Senior Member
What an absolute turd. Times this by 7, over at The Ravine site. Same architect, similar designs. The views, however, are among the best in the city and they will change dramatically in the next 5-10 years with the midtown skyline to the right, as well as the Don Mills and downtown skylines. It's nice to see One Bloor East from this perspective. It's basically the same height as the Four Seasons now. Can't wait to see The One from a similar vantage point.
cruzin4u
Senior Member
Pretty much. Driving by the Alto development by Tridel on Sheppard, I can already see their patented white precast going up. It's only a matter of time they start installing their world famous spandrel that they use on every other one of their developments. Argento, Aristo, Avani, Alto, 101 Erskine, Islington Terrace - the list goes on ... all garbage.
WislaHD
Superstar
Indeed. You can already see the Madison rising in Midtown. Now imagine both E Condos towers, 1 Eglinton East, the two Redpath towers, 2221 Yonge, The Eglinton and 55 Eglinton East.
There are many more than just those, but those are the tallest.
Armour
Senior Member
I know. I'm really excited to watch the transformation. The westward terminating view from my street is perfectly in line with Yonge & Eglinton, so I'll be able to step out my front door and see all the change.
My cousin lives right near the end of Soudan (by Yonge St). He's going to have a heck of a view of all this progress.
Argento's roof would also offer an excellent view of that Bjarke Ingels tower that was proposed for Shops At Don Mills (I hope that project is just on the back burner and not completely dead).
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salsa
Senior Member
In fact, Argento is built on land that was the "park" for another tower. I suppose that the new building could have been built right up to the sidewalks, but look at the trees that would have destroyed. Yes, this is still 20th century suburban form here, but it is also a major intensification of the site.
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marcus_a_j
Senior Member
I don't see a real need to build right up to Don Mills along this stretch, especially with the grades here. Besides, there are townhouses being built that front right up to Graydon Hall.
Solaris
Senior Member
Argento is actually built right up to its own property line .... per 2007 City Planning staff report:
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/ny/bgrd/backgroundfile-7676.pdf
The triangular hill shown in the foreground of salsa's photo above is for the adjacent property @ 4 Graydon Hall Drive ... development was approved in 2010 for a 12 storeys wedge shaped building:
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2010/ny/bgrd/backgroundfile-27409.pdf
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/ny/bgrd/backgroundfile-7676.pdf
The triangular hill shown in the foreground of salsa's photo above is for the adjacent property @ 4 Graydon Hall Drive ... development was approved in 2010 for a 12 storeys wedge shaped building:
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2010/ny/bgrd/backgroundfile-27409.pdf
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UD2
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All that I can say is, for a squandrel building, this is one of the best looking squandrel clad ones that I have seen. And it resembles almost exactly the renders, also a rarity.
stjames2queenwest
Senior Member
it's decent, Im glad they left the trees, trees are important.
WislaHD
Superstar
Do we have a forum thread for that project?