Toronto Bloor & Dufferin | 122.35m | 37s | Hazelview | Turner Fleischer

[AlexBozikovic]

This could have been one of the best projects in the city. It’s been clear for a while that it will be… Not that. Now we can see the towers are boring at street level and have zero relationship (colour, material, detail) to the school building. The landscape architecture is a mess.

Red brick, meet orange aluminum panel. No sense of place, no coherence, no attention to detail at the ground level.

It’s hard to think of this project as being especially bad. There are worse buildings. But this is so big, and the site has so much history, that it’s really sad to see it end up like this.

 

[torontologist]

Dufferin continues to be sufferin'.

 

[AlbertC]

Dufferin street mood

 

[AlbertC]

 

[interchange42]

Three new threads have been created, one each for the three rental towers that Fitzrovia is getting going on here. If photos of work on the site can be split among each thread, that would be greatly appreciated! The threads are…

The Marlow, on Block C, below.
The Quinton, behind the Kent School on Block D, below.
The Belvoir, on Block E, below.

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[rdaner]

Photos taken 7 March.

 

[PMT]

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[rdaner]

Just to add to your shots.

 

[rdaner]

Photo taken 18 May. I guess that the crane goes in soon.

 

[pesto]

Today

 

[WalkieScorchie]

 

[rdaner]

Hi! Forgot where I read it (probably Instagram) but Toronto School of Art has signed a lease for space in the Kent building.

 

[Towered]

I wish the German school would come back

 

[abovegrade]

TSA! I love Toronto school of art. Took some classes there this winter and the vibe was so great. Glad we can bring artists into this boring development.