Toronto U Condominiums | 183.79m | 56s | Pemberton | a—A

[drum118]

Dec 19

 

[someMidTowner]

December 30th:

 

[urbandreamer]

30 December 2013:

 

[peterwera]

It has been proposed to increase 3 floors to Phase One building just below the top floor and it has been proposed to increase 1 floor to the Phase Two building

 

[Automation Gallery]

It has been proposed to increase 3 floors to Phase One building just below the top floor and it has been proposed to increase 1 floor to the Phase Two building

Which one is the tallest of them?

 

[Ramako]

Interesting to see what that would do to the diagonal balcony motif.

 

[Southcore]

Which one is the tallest of them?

I believe that was phase 2 (east tower), 55 stories (184m).

 

[ushahid]

this thing will be a beauty when it completes.

 

[SP!RE]

Interesting to see what that would do to the diagonal balcony motif.

It will just end before the top floors' balconies, I presume, with the newly added floors having regular balcony glazing without the fritted motif.

 

[interchange42]

The balconies themselves are travelling across each elevation too, the concrete of each floor offset slightly from where it was on the floor below… so I suppose they will lean out a little more on one side on the top floors?

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[greenleaf]

From the Committee of Adjustment agenda for 50 St. Joseph St:

"To alter the redevelopment plan to construct two residential towers (45 storeys and 55 storeys), as approved under site specific By-law 1023-2008, by constructing a one-storey addition to the East Tower and a three-storey addition to the West Tower."

Found here: http://www1.toronto.ca/staticfiles/...iles/pdf/C/January 22, 2013 TEY Agenda PM.pdf

 

[MafaldaBoy]

03 February 2014:


U Condos by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr


U Condos by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr


U Condos by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr

 

[Patch]

 

[modernizt]

U Condos by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr

The scale and rhythm of the podium couldn't be more perfectly suited for the St. Michael's campus / its immediate context. When they want to be, aA are great at distilling themes and materiality from the immediate context into new projects. The towers in this project aren't particularly exciting to me, but what's happening at ground level / in the "people realm" is compelling and is being handled in such a way that I think it is actually going to be a great *improvement* to the St. Michael's campus.

 

[interchange42]

These towers, like aA's latest two in the Distillery, just won't look anything like their finished state until we see the balconies glazed. Until then, it will take some mental acrobatics to imagine the rendered final look in situ.

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