Toronto IMMIX | 131.06m | 38s | QuadReal | a—A

[rdaner]

Really liking the attention to detail around the heritage buildings. It is almost post modern! Photos taken 1 July .

 

[CanadianNational]

So, please forgive if this has been brought up already.
There's a few different versions of the base shown in the initial renderings. Obviously we're not getting the 'angled back' first version, but the much-alike second version(s) show a kind of 'ghost facade' of the former firehall. One of them does, anyway.

I was wondering if these were an reminder of the historical firehouse to show why the tower was being kept (in the renders only) or if they're actually planning to build some sort of decorative imitation of the original hall.
The second rendering shows the entrance much like it is now - with no imitation firehall in sight.
I suspect we're not getting this decorous bit of ghostly reconstruction, but does anyone know what the final word on that is?

 

[rdaner]

Interesting. There are large brackets at the top of the opening the north of the tower.

 

[interchange42]

So, please forgive if this has been brought up already.
There's a few different versions of the base shown in the initial renderings. Obviously we're not getting the 'angled back' first version, but the much-alike second version(s) show a kind of 'ghost facade' of the former firehall. One of them does, anyway.

I was wondering if these were an reminder of the historical firehouse to show why the tower was being kept (in the renders only) or if they're actually planning to build some sort of decorative imitation of the original hall.
The second rendering shows the entrance much like it is now - with no imitation firehall in sight.
I suspect we're not getting this decorous bit of ghostly reconstruction, but does anyone know what the final word on that is?

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As far as we know, they're going with the a a glass recreation of the old firehall that has frit detail baked onto it. The anchors that were recently affixed to the concrete tell me that we'll soon see a steel frame go up onto which the glass panels can be affixed. I certainly hope I'm right…

It would be a simpler version of what MVRDV did at their Glass Farm project in Schijndel, Netherlands.

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[rdaner]

I guess that this is going to start filling up soon. And we can see what the gritted glass façade will look like.

 

[greenleaf]

Really hating that the architect decided to drop this metal post into the restored brick tower.

Was that really necessary?

 

[innsertnamehere]

the renderings always showed that - likely as the original firehouse building overlapped the tower:

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Wasn't it that way with the original firehouse here?

 

[greenleaf]

Thanks, I hate it.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[yrt+viva=1system]

8.6.2023

 

[70Challenger]

Installing the ‘ghost fire hall’

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Looking at this complete really makes me pause and reflect how the building boom has developed this last 10 years. I never imagined that a 38 story building would look too short for Yonge Street, but that is the feeling I now get from this project.