Toronto River City Condos Phases 1 & 2 | ?m | 16s | Urban Capital | ZAS Architects

[TrickyRicky]

"Argh, that new road looks really wide to me."

Par for the course isn't it? I don't think there is any jurisdiction in the world that has as over engineered road right-of-way megalomaniac design specifications as Ontario.

 

[Edward Skira]

River City 2 Rendering

 

[Tulse]

It's alright I guess, but it's yet another "plain box spruced up by the balconies" that seems so endemic in Toronto design these days (I suppose because such designs are relatively cheap compared to creating interesting non-boxy buildings).

 

[bgobgo]

Christopher Hume video from the Don River Park being built... http://www.thestar.com/videozone/1056565--hume-a-park-runs-through-it

 

[Tuscani01]

It's alright I guess, but it's yet another "plain box spruced up by the balconies" that seems so endemic in Toronto design these days (I suppose because such designs are relatively cheap compared to creating interesting non-boxy buildings).

Or maybe because a box is the most functional design, especially for a residential building? Curved spaces make furniture placement difficult, and usually are not efficient in terms of use of space. A box may be boring, but its definitely more popular with home buyers.

 

[cassius]

A second crane is going up on the site right now.

 

[Solaris]

Cool render-movie of River City 2 .... thanks for the lead japrologue ~

river city 2 is up on its website

http://www.rivercitytoronto.com/flash.php

New Presentation Centre will be open to the public on Nov 19th, 2011
preview for early registrants on October 29th, 2011, including new scale
model, new kitchen and bathroom vignettes, new renderings and new
floor plans

 

[androiduk]

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[Johnny Kay]

I don't quite understand what's happening with this site. Are they not digging down?

 

[Johnny Kay]

also, COOLEST / most terrifying retro futuristic soundtrack on their website right now. What's going on? Hahaha - I love it. It's like they hired John Carpenter to do the music.

http://www.rivercitytoronto.com/flash.php

 

[DSC]

I don't quite understand what's happening with this site. Are they not digging down?

No, they are building on top of the Don River berm - built at great cost to protect the downtown area from a Hurricane Hazel flood.

 

[Torontovibe]

No, they are building on top of the Don River berm - built at great cost to protect the downtown area from a Hurricane Hazel flood.

So it will have above ground parking?

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

Big whacking sign for Phase 2 went up at the site this morning.

'vibe -- I'm not certain if there's any parking at all at River City, but if there is, it must won't be underground.

 

[interchange42]

We finally have a dataBase entry up for this project - the 216th entry to be precise - with a number of renderings that people won't be familiar with already. You can check it out here.

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[CapitalSeven]

Thank you for adding that database page. If it's not appropriate to say this in the main page, feel free to delete my post. I realize UT needs to sell advertising to pay the bills, but animated ads that sit in front of the content, block about 1/8 of it, and cannot be closed are offensive, and I don't intend to look at pages that have them. I hope it was just an error in the composition of that page.