junctionist
Senior Member
I was looking through a collection of Moshe Safdie projects, and being naturally inclined to see his Toronto projects, I discovered this unbuilt postmodern project from 1989 which makes his evocative opera house proposal seem tame in comparison (because of the scope).
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Does anyone remember this, specifically the location? It ranks up there in terms of outlandish architecture which was never built. It probably would have assumed iconic status.
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(found here)This mixed-use project is located on a twenty-five acre site at the center of a rapidly developing urban area of Toronto. The proposed program for the site includes office space totaling 2.5 million square feet was to be built in several structures: a retail complex, a 600-room hotel, a residential development containing 1,000 units, and a 20,000-seat sports arena. The main urban design strategy is to create a major glazed street, a grand galleria, which would connect all parts of the project. Two office buildings and the hotel form a series of gateways arching over the grand galleria. The project design was an invited competition entry.
![wittington1.jpg](http://cac.mcgill.ca/safdie/images/backgrounds/wittington1.jpg)
Does anyone remember this, specifically the location? It ranks up there in terms of outlandish architecture which was never built. It probably would have assumed iconic status.