ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
This property switched hands in the second half of last year. Lamb Development bought it.
Yes, we can expect another huge building squeezed onto a very small site. Sigh!This property switched hands in the second half of last year. Lamb Development bought it.
Because it will probably overpower the surrounding buildings and not fit into the neighbourhood. The SAS building fits well, the G & M fits well, will a Brad Lamb building? I am prepared to be surprised, but I am not hopeful.Why is that a problem?
Because it will probably overpower the surrounding buildings and not fit into the neighbourhood. The SAS building fits well, the G & M fits well, will a Brad Lamb building? I am prepared to be surprised, but I am not hopeful.
Because it will probably overpower the surrounding buildings and not fit into the neighbourhood. The SAS building fits well, the G & M fits well, will a Brad Lamb building? I am prepared to be surprised, but I am not hopeful.
So the examples in your first paragraph are of things going wrong? I'm still a little lost as to why @DSC (and presumably yourself) seems to think that a higher FSI is an immediate disqualifier.
I may be unduly jaded but I think 17 storeys would be VERY much less than hoped for. Brad just got 25 floors approved at 53 Ontario thanks to the OMB - the City thought that was too tall. Height is certainly not everything but it cannot be ignored.Wellington House isn't approved yet, so we'll see if it ends up as large as proposed. No-one else has proposed something of that height on that street, so I don't think it's guaranteed. Here on King Street, @ProjectEnd is right: the new context is already fairly more substantial than the old one, and with the 17-storey Globe and Mail Centre right across the street, I would not be surprised to see something of a height proposed for this location.
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Because it will probably overpower the surrounding buildings and not fit into the neighbourhood. The SAS building fits well, the G & M fits well, will a Brad Lamb building? I am prepared to be surprised, but I am not hopeful.