longfortheoldview
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How are all those curves and surfaces going to be cleaned? 
Toronto Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners
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fanoftoronto
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I finally had the motivation to download the plans for this development. A few notes from the architectural plans.
1. The main level has 3 Retail stores on the west tower and 1 in the east tower. I would like the residential lobby on the east tower to be use a smaller frontage onto King Street.
2. There's a fun little turntable on the west tower to allow for the receiving trucks to use!
3. I like the frontage size of the residential lobby and the commercial lobby for the western tower. It's really compact and allows for maximization of the retail frontage.
1. The main level has 3 Retail stores on the west tower and 1 in the east tower. I would like the residential lobby on the east tower to be use a smaller frontage onto King Street.
2. There's a fun little turntable on the west tower to allow for the receiving trucks to use!
3. I like the frontage size of the residential lobby and the commercial lobby for the western tower. It's really compact and allows for maximization of the retail frontage.
enrigue8
Active Member
New render from the official video of the project. It will be iconic.
daptive
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For a second I though Television’s Moira Rose was doing the introduction.
old boy
Senior Member
It 's going to make the surrounding plateau of buildings even more bland, if that's possible.
3Dementia
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...so from that view, Forma will get lost behind Union Park when all things are built and done?
kotsy
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Lenser
Senior Member
Yo, chill! Forma will remain visible from any number of alternative perspectives. Sheesh.
fanoftoronto
Active Member
They photoshopped the elevator shaft and construction cranes off 160 Front Street in this rendering. Makes sense seeing it has a massive TD sign on it.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
That'll be one less set of buildings you can tag! >.<
Not that I personally care. I was just asking out of curiosity.
C-mac
Senior Member
Love how at the 0.49 mark of this video, she promotes the fact "housing demand will out pace supply" while were in a housing crises because of this.
C-mac
Senior Member
Beat me to it. Was thinking the exact same thing.
fanoftoronto
Active Member
To be fair, both should be visible for straight angles of the CN Tower. Union Park (Red box) is east of the CN Tower and Forma (Blue box) is in the same line as the CN Tower. Pictured below.
Union Park will be behind the Skydome, and Forma will be behind the CN Tower. Union Park has a much lower chance of having its view blocked as the city likes having the iconic pic of the CN Tower and Skydome duo from the island.
Unfortunately, Forma does not have this privilege and would be partially blocked by the CN Tower and the Ritz.
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C-mac
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I think it's a matter of just how they placed the buildings in the pic, because they've got them almost inline with Rogers Centre, when in fact they'll be a bit more to the east.
Not to mention, this project has serious legs to it at this point, where as Union Park has a long road ahead still so kind of a moot point.