Toronto Park Hyatt Renovation | 62.48m | 18s | Oxford Properties | KPMB

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News release:
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releas...onto-s-iconic-park-hyatt-hotel-883614137.html
A Landmark Reborn, Oxford Properties Unveils Designs for Transformation of Toronto's Iconic Park Hyatt Hotel
-With an expected reopening in 2020, the completed project will feature 219 luxury hotel rooms, 65 luxury rental apartments, high-end retail and more -

TORONTO, April 2, 2019 /CNW/ - Oxford Properties Group ("Oxford"), the global real estate arm of OMERS, today revealed designs for its redevelopment of Park Hyatt Toronto. Long considered to be one of the most venerable sites in Toronto, and one of the most iconic addresses, Park Hyatt Toronto will be fully modernized through Oxford's plans that will restore the buildings to their true landmark status. The plans create 65 luxury rental apartments at Two Avenue Road, the site's heritage South Tower, 40,000 square feet of high-end retail and restaurant options throughout the complex, and a 219-room luxury Park Hyatt hotel in the site's North Tower. The heritage-designated South Tower will be completely retained and restored, making it the first high-rise in Toronto to be totally retained in an adaptive re-use project, preserving it for generations to come. The project is already under construction and slated to re-open in early 2020.
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Does anyone have any idea what the Dickinson north building was actually like originally? I can't seem to find any period photos of the structure.

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AlvinofDiaspar said:
Does anyone have any idea what the Dickinson north building was actually like originally? I can't seem to find any period photos of the structure.

AoD
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Toronto Architecture from the 1940's and 1950's

The Westbury Hotel, designed by Peter Dickinson while at Page & Steele 1957, north addition by WZMH 1963: The Westbury’s exterior represented the lightness, airiness and transparency of Dickinson’s best work during the mid-1950s: horizontal bands of windows in slim metal frames...
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POSTCARD - TORONTO - PARK PLAZA HOTEL - LOOKING N ON UNIVERSITY AVE - PCC STREETCAR - NOTE ADDITION BEING BUILT - LATE 1950s

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Not anything particularly special, but it's a bit of a shame that the forecourt which opened up to the street got became increasingly defensive in nature after the 90s renos, and is now gone.
 
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Toronto Architecture from the 1940's and 1950's

The Westbury Hotel, designed by Peter Dickinson while at Page & Steele 1957, north addition by WZMH 1963: The Westbury’s exterior represented the lightness, airiness and transparency of Dickinson’s best work during the mid-1950s: horizontal bands of windows in slim metal frames...
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The Park Plaza 1936

More on the Park Plaza’s history here.
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chuckmanothercollectionvolume3.blogspot.com

POSTCARD - TORONTO - PARK PLAZA HOTEL - LOOKING N ON UNIVERSITY AVE - PCC STREETCAR - NOTE ADDITION BEING BUILT - LATE 1950s

chuckmanothercollectionvolume3.blogspot.com chuckmanothercollectionvolume3.blogspot.com
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That's great. Thanks! Too bad this reno doesn't extend to restoration of the original Modernist north wing - instead of the current anonymous pile.

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