Toronto Tango at Concord Park Place | ?m | 31s | Concord Adex | P + S / IBI

What a sad, depressing area. The only life comes from the blue/yellow Ikea near by. concord/Adex took 2 huge, important parcels of land in this city and teabagged them. Hope the city learns from this. But I doubt they will.
 
Concord Park Place will grow into its own. Once it crosses a threshold population the retail frontages along Esther Shiner Blvd (of which there are quite a few) will start to open up, and people living in the buildings here will have places that they can walk to to do their shopping.

IKEA may be lively, but it's car lively. I don't know what's so great about it urbanistically though.

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Concord Park Place will grow into its own. Once it crosses a threshold population the retail frontages along Esther Shiner Blvd (of which there are quite a few) will start to open up, and people living in the buildings here will have places that they can walk to to do their shopping.

IKEA may be lively, but it's car lively. I don't know what's so great about it urbanistically though.

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Area is really good why all the hate? Way better than the car central suburb of Greensboro in Markham.
 
The area just needs time. Once Tango and Tango2 have been moved into, here's hoping that there'll be the threshold population to float most of the retail units built into the base of those two buildings and of the earlier Discovery phases. The long-term retail mix takes years to shake out though, so I expect the following Opus and Omega phases will be in before the retail is firing on all cylinders. Once all of the towers are in at Concord Park Place, the area could and should be reasonably lively at ground level. The walk to Bessarion station through the park should be quite pleasant by then.

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Driving along the 401 I noticed they added design work to the top of the building and did a quick visit to the site
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There were some shots of it in this thread in late-2014, but these new photos are by far the clearest shots we have seen so far. Thanks drum!
 
There were some shots of it in this thread in late-2014, but these new photos are by far the clearest shots we have seen so far. Thanks drum!
I was out there in Nov and don't recall see that design as well earlier. I must come in from another direction that I never noticed it, otherwise would had got close up shots then.

Haven't being following most threads these days and done very little shooting in the last 6 months like I have in the past. Very hard to do the normal shooting at this time of the year that I do, as well finding the time.
 
The official unveiling of 'Spring' was held yesterday at Tango, and we have a front page story here which includes two videos and a number of images.

There are plenty more photos to see give you a thorough idea of the work though, so here they are:

This was how the buildings looked yesterday…

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But most of the exterior photography was taken last fall on a day with more sunshine. Here are those pics…

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All pics by me except the last one which is by Gabriel Leung.

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I wonder why developers are suddenly scared to show the mechanical elements in their buildings. When one compares the above with this:

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The difference is night and day (to me at least). Funny enough, both buildings are by the same architect and for the same client. Odd.
 

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I do like the visible mechanical elements at the top with the mechanical rooms illuminated as well. As far as the overall design of Concord's buildings go (in Toronto), they sort of peaked (pun unintended) with those buildings that have the visible mechanics. West One, N1/2, Neo, Montage and Luna are the best Concord buildings, IMO, and since those have been constructed it's been more and more disappointment.

As for the Park Place buildings, Tango in particular, I find the buildings are confused and don't know if they should be blue or green or grey or black or a combination. Thick or thin horizontal bands. Flat or curved balconies*. Floor to ceiling glass levels with big, solid, blank podiums and roofs. It's not the quality of materials or execution, it's the hodge-podge of differing design elements that I'm not a fan of. The public art is nice, but it doesn't fit well into the buildings.

* The curved balconies on the west side of Tango provide a very nice effect in the setting afternoon sun - certainly a bit of relief while stuck in traffic eastbound on the 401 when the sun's out.
 
not having illuminated rooftop architectural 'features' probably has something to do with "bird friendly" guidelines and requirements for LEED points nowadays
 
Park Place is looking a lot like the preliminary renderings for CityPlace, before the design review panel went through the plans:

 
The official unveiling of 'Spring' was held yesterday at Tango, and we have a front page story here which includes two videos and a number of images.

There are plenty more photos to see give you a thorough idea of the work though, so here they are:

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Impressive photos... Thanks for sharing!!!

Love to living in the environment with surrounding with flowers all years long without worry about the weather and the bugs!!!
 

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