Toronto Drake Hotel Expansion | 18.9m | 5s | Diamond Schmitt

[Red Mars]

Nov 3, 2019

 

[AlbertC]

 

[AlbertC]

 

[AlbertC]

The brick is looking great:

June 13, 2020

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[ADRM]

Meanwhile...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279076920051798017

 

[ADRM]

This looks absolutely fantastic. Lovely choice of brick. I really love the ghost window motif — that’s tough to pull off without it looking hokey, but they’ve managed the feat here.

This is a really nice touch — the wrap on the hoarding is an ode to both essential workers and a snapshot of a swath of Torontonians wearing all sorts of different types of masks.

 

[junctionist]

It kind of looks like one of those old buildings where at some point, the owner stopped caring about the aesthetics of the exterior and cut new windows wherever a window was desirable for the interior. And for structural stability, they had to brick up the old windows.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...that looks weird in sorta interesting ways.

 

[Towered]

At first I wasn't sold on the choice of brick colour, but I guess they wanted to closely match the facade of the original hotel. The details are well done.

 

[AlbertC]

July 19, 2020

 

[AlbertC]

Aug 16, 2020

 

[Yegger]

beautiful. I wish every development along queen street was this quality and scale

 

[Red Mars]

Thu Sep 17, 2020

I've got to be in the "top ten photographers who get their picture taken by construction workers".

 

[SOS_Urbanist]

Love it! In person, the effect of the brick window outlines is a bit muted, but that might have been lighting conditions. Hopefully they stand our a bit more with better lighting/weathering of the facade. It's a great build overall.