Toronto MuseumHouse | 71.01m | 19s | Yorkville Group | P + S / IBI

[vatche]

So that red brick building is going?? Is that small door the main entrance of the building??

 

[cruzin4u]

So that red brick building is going?? Is that small door the main entrance of the building??

This is from Google Maps showing when Museum House was under construction. Exhibit will be on the plot of land where you see Pho Hung, Stretch and McDonalds.

 

[vatche]

Oh cool thank. That stretch will get nicely cleaned up then and u have the museums right across. I like it!

 

[Miscreant]

...and what's going on the left, to cover up the atrocious west side of the building?

 

[vatche]

The side which is glass is being blocked off and the side that is concrete slab is exposed !!! Hmmm!!! Don't get it!

 

[Edward Skira]

The side with glass faces a public lane which will remain open. The other side will one day have a new building flush to the wall hence the blank wall.

 

[Miscreant]

But we don't yet know what that building will be, I'm assuming?

 

[Edward Skira]

Does it matter? The city has laws preventing windows on the property line that faces another property. That wall has to remain windowless.

 

[Miscreant]

Well it matters about as much as anything else here does: as a matter of purely general and curious interest. I'd like to know if people on here know what building will be going on the west side. That's about it.

 

[Ramako]

Where is this clinic supposed to be?

Application: Zoning Review Status: Not Started

Location: 204 BLOOR ST W
TORONTO ON M5S 1T8

Ward 20: Trinity-Spadina

Application#: 12 124735 ZZC 00 ZR Accepted Date: Feb 17, 2012

Project: Non-Residential Building Other Proposal

Description: Proposal to construct dental clinic on ground and second floor of commerical/residenital building.

 

[vatche]

Where is this clinic supposed to be?

Does this mean the retail front of museum house will be a dental clinic???

 

[Recoil]

I don't understand why the blank slate on the west side is limited to that small sliver, do they have an agreement with the property next door not to build it any wider than the blank slate? It seems the property owner could just build straight up and block all those windows unless there is some agreement or zoning requirement.

 

[Xray_Crystal_Junkie]

^ Apparently not actually windows.

There are no window's on the west side, so that won't be a concern.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

I don't understand why the blank slate on the west side is limited to that small sliver, do they have an agreement with the property next door not to build it any wider than the blank slate? It seems the property owner could just build straight up and block all those windows unless there is some agreement or zoning requirement.

There's fire code to consider too.

 

[sixrings]

Are the black windows facing the West see through or are they simply decoration? Why I am asking is I am wondering if another tower can be squeezed between museum house and the intercontinental. There is a law in toronto thatbuildings need to be a certain distance away of other buildings if there are windows facing out. So if these windows work the only chance of another building fitting here would be to make it super thin and align it with the white strip on the side everyone is talking about. If that did happen it would have to be only one unit per floor.