Toronto Bathurst College Centre | ?m | 4s | RioCan | Turner Fleischer

[Red Mars]

Pics taken Dec 13, 2018

Does anyone know what the purpose of this extra wall piece is for? Maybe to reinforce the wall against a delivery vehicle knocking out the load bearing wall.

 

[Northern Light]

Pics taken Dec 13, 2018

Does anyone know what the purpose of this extra wall piece is for? Maybe to reinforce the wall against a delivery vehicle knocking out the load bearing wall.

Excellent pics. Good eye for the job fair sign as well!

 

[innsertnamehere]

exciting. I'll have to go do my groceries here once Freshco is open one week.

 

[pw20]

Riocan gets a bad rap, I actually find this super inoffensive and a great model providing retail (needed services for local residents) + offices. It's a higher density version of old school two story retail blocks that line uptown streets like Eglinton. What will make downtown continue to be livable is necessary (and unglamorous) retail, and more office space (not just in South Core or sandwiched into the FD). Toronto would be more vibrant if more of our central streets were lined with similar buildings.

 

[Eastside]

A pretty significant amount of the rear laneway-facing side of the building is a living wall. It’s a nice detail.

 

[.dwg]

You can put a green wall up on your building but if your main elevation looks like it belongs in an office park, then it’s simply out of context for Bathurst Street. I’m not opposed to the building program / retail format but the design itself is poor and a missed opportunity.

 

[condovo]

^^^Agreed. It's too nostalgically "main street" for my taste and the detailing is poor. This building's in the core of a major, global city. Would it be acceptable in Berlin or Barcelona? Doubtful. Why should it be here? We've got to demand more.

 

[holographic plastic]

^^^Agreed. It's too nostalgically "main street" for my taste and the detailing is poor. This building's in the core of a major, global city. Would it be acceptable in Berlin or Barcelona? Doubtful. Why should it be here? We've got to demand more.

I think you, and many other people as well, highly over estimate how nice the majority of buildings are in other major cities.

 

[drum118]

Dec 20
More up on site.
Paving was taking place for various section of the site to allow traffic to use it.

The living wall will look nice in a year or two

 

[jje1000]

Interesting, don't recall ever having seen a large exterior green wall in Toronto before- hope it does well.

 

[TrickyRicky]

Besides Berlin and Barcelona aren’t major World Cities, they’re quaint local centres . The architecture of real major World Cities is generally atrocious. Toronto is somewhere in between a quaint local centre and a world City and our architecture is somewhere in between good and atrocious. The universe is in balance

 

[Roundabout]

I hope that old building gets some TLC. I bet its's also red brick under all that grey paint.

 

[TheKingEast]

Not a fan. Looks really suburban.

 

[Towered]

Not a fan. Looks really suburban.

It's Turner Fleischer - you weren't actually expecting quality, were you?

 

[Blitz901]

Does anyone know what's happening with the dilapidated house between new development and the beer store? I asked this a couple years ago and was told it would be torn down but would act as a construction office for now. It seems to have a fresh coat of paint. Implies it's here to stay as an eye soar?