Toronto Pinnacle One Yonge South Block | 296m | 85s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

[UrbanAffair]

Makes plenty of sense to me. Large windows, facing the water, with a park planned in front? Perfect location if you ask me. Short walk to the ferries.

Which hotel is in Skytower again? Maybe this will be a related hotel in the same group?

 

[Amare]

Which hotel is in Skytower again? Maybe this will be a related hotel in the same group?

Le Meridien (which is owned by Mariott) is in Skytower.

We have no idea at the moment who would be associated with the hotel in the former Toronto Star building, it's far too early to say.

 

[Skyhighzz]

Maybe have specialists clean & polish up this worn drab concrete tower first. Aesthetics of the exterior matters to many. Especially if this new temp hotel idea is in operation longer than 5-10 yrs? I couldn’t take looking at that structure if left in present dreary state.
Brighten that thing up. And speaking of hotels, the Westin Harbour Castle, just across the road from this brutalist tower, could also use a good power wash & polish up too. Both looking somewhat miserable. Toronto, always oddly prioritizing interiors over exteriors every time-Buildings, tall towers, sports stadiums.

 

[rdaner]

I am a huge fan of building re-use and am glad to see this proposal but I must admit I have a primal dislike of brown concrete/brick! Just can’t see it as worthy of being saved versus a better colour or cladding.

 

[The Preservationist]

It wasn't so brown when it was newly built.

 

[wmedia]

I've got a bit of a soft spot for the brown pebbledashed look of the cladding. It adds some 70s heft to the neighbourhood.

 

[NIL OMNI]

This building screams detention centre or coroner's building to me, not a lux hotel. I can't even wrap my head around the. money spent on conversion for a such a temporary use. *shakes head*.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

^...it has too many large windows to be called either.

 

[NIL OMNI]

^...it has too many large windows to be called either.

Oh I don't know. Think of the George Drew building on Grosvenor or the Parthenais prison in Montreal. We're all entitled to our points of reference.

 

[Natika33]

I wish the old Toronto Star building on Bay Street, built in the late 1920's, would have been spared the wrecking ball. What a beauty it was.

Superman's Daily Planet!

 

[officedweller]

Yonge Sheppard Centre was reclad with aluminum panels (which could be any colour) over brutalist concrete panels.

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Hopefully the south block will be redesigned to allow phasing of the project.
That massive stepped podium is overbearing.

 

[mburrrrr]

@Northern Light

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

From the cover letter submission
“Existing 25-storey office building on the 1-7 Yonge Lands into a 468-suite hotel, comprised of 308 typical suites and 160 extended stay suites (the “Interim Development”). Pinnacle is not seeking to make any exterior changes to the building or to the public realm, with the exception of introducing outdoor amenity space on the roof of the podium element of the existing office building.”

20 of 51 underground parking spots staying for hotel plus 10 on the NW corner at ground level for valet..
Typical hotel, lounge, bar, ballroom, meeting rooms, indoor pool, spa up to level 6 at 4.57m/floor. + outdoor tennis and pickleball court.
300-600 ft2 hotel rooms level 2-14 level
above level 6 the floors are 3.65 m slab to slab. 11’10”
600-1,000 ft2 extended stay rooms level 15-25

 

[xy3]

I hope it's not covered in dreary greyish blue metal. I'd even take the warmth of the current brown pebbleboard over that.

 

[Northern Light]

I hope its not covered in dreary greyish blue metal. Id even take the warmth of the current brown pebbleboard over that.

There are no proposed changes to the exterior of 1 Yonge (former Star building) under this application. It stays as is, give or take some signage.

 

[wmedia]

It will be interesting to see if any of the areas marked as "not part of submission" are still demolished.