Toronto Massey Tower Condos | 206.95m | 60s | MOD Developments | Hariri Pontarini

There was a vault within the portion being demolished but it was not the stuff of movie legend, just a room enclosed by heavy masonry walls and a metal door. Could be the original 1905 vault was removed in the 1950's "renovation".
 
interchange42 said:
Will those bricks be salvaged?

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Only some of them. Unlike Five St. Joseph, there are no major brick portions of the building that have to be reconstructed, the front being limestone. In fact, MOD will be adding limestone to the blank north facade to "turn the corner" of the Yonge facade to the proposed glass retail pavilion.
 
I was wondering less about re-use onsite, and more if there might be a market for bricks with the patina of age, or that tumbled look they get from the demolition process! Just a passing question.

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Wait, so they're keeping even the majority of the back wall? No gutting, no facadectomy? Wow. Even if the condo itself is crap at least the bank will still be there and won't look tacked on. Not that I'm expecting the tower to look like crap but damn are we getting the best of both worlds here.
 
wolfewood said:
Wait, so they're keeping even the majority of the back wall? No gutting, no facadectomy? Wow. Even if the condo itself is crap at least the bank will still be there and won't look tacked on. Not that I'm expecting the tower to look like crap but damn are we getting the best of both worlds here.
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Yup, and remember kids, the planning department's original planning report recommended rejection of Massey Tower. Thankfully city council had the wisdom to see the merits of this proposal and overruled the planning department's ill-advised recommendation. If anything, they should be granted huge density bonuses for the respectful treatment to the heritage structure.
 
fedplanner said:
Yup, and remember kids, the planning department's original planning report recommended rejection of Massey Tower. Thankfully city council had the wisdom to see the merits of this proposal and overruled the planning department's ill-advised recommendation. If anything, they should be granted huge density bonuses for the respectful treatment to the heritage structure.
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Remember also that the Refusal Report was based on a rigid interpretation of the Tall Buildings Guidelines, which requires 12.5M setbacks from side lot lines (notwithstanding that the flanking buildings north and south of Massey Tower are designated heritage buildings). Remember also that on the advice of Heritage Preservation Services no credit was given to the $2.0M to be spent on the restoration of 197 Yonge when the City extracted the Section 37 benefit from MOD (notwithstanding that heritage preservation at 5 St. Joseph made up the entire Section 37 benefit there). Finally, though credit should be given to Kristyn Wong-Tam for getting the approvals through Council, the entire zoning process from beginning to end took 2.5 years, which is quite appalling when one considers that the design did not change at all during the process, sailed through the Design Review Panel, was supported by the neighbourhood, the Ontario Heritage Trust, the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Association and facilitated by way of land donation the revitalization of Massey Hall, a National Historic Site. What's wrong with this picture?
 
What colour are they going to use for the facade. It looks like a peach cream contour look for the building in magazines.
 
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Not sure if it is for Massey tower or Massey hall but it there appears to be some kind of white crane being assembled on site currently
 
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