UpperWest | 485 Richmond Road | 82.6m | 24 fl | Completed - Page 6

1overcosc · #**101** Posted **May 1, 2015, 2:36 PM**

^ Aside from a fairly small living room area that's not too bad.

Icon has some units like that too (very small 2 bedrooms)--they strike me as designed to attract investors (cheaper purchase price because of the low square footage, higher rent price because 2 tenants instead of 1).

That unit would be very family friendly, IMO, if the ensuite was removed, the master bedroom shrunk a bit to fit in a den/study.

Harley613 · #**102** Posted **May 1, 2015, 2:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by cr872190

also this unit faces the west, meaning anything under floor ~12 will be obstructed by cihi building.

what is this, a condo for ants?!?

Capital Shaun · #**103** Posted **May 1, 2015, 3:33 PM**

I really don't see the point of a 2nd bathroom in a small 2 bedroom apartment. Such a waste of space.

Boxster · #**104** Posted **May 1, 2015, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by cr872190

Also this unit faces the west, meaning anything under floor ~12 will be obstructed by CIHI building.

The second bedroom could have a wall to wall bed.

cr872190 · #**105** Posted **May 1, 2015, 5:15 PM**

Considering the second bedroom doesn't have a window and is right off the kitchen, it looks like they just took a one bedroom plus den and decided to label it a two bedroom.

Boxster · #**106** Posted **May 1, 2015, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by cr872190

Considering the second bedroom doesn't have a window and is right off the kitchen, it looks like they just took a one bedroom plus den and decided to label it a two bedroom.

You are right. They can get away and call it a bedroom because it receives daylight from the opening created by the sliding doors.

daud · #**107** Posted **May 1, 2015, 5:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

what is this, a condo for ants?!?

You know, there's more to a condo than being really really really really ridiculously spacious looking.

Besides, the outside is made of blue steel.

waterloowarrior · #**108** Posted **May 1, 2015, 5:51 PM**

reminds me of a friends unit in LTD Condos in Toronto.. slightly more spacious. It has glass sliding doors for the second bedroom... watch out for gaps in the curtains!

(Sorry I lost the source)

Schattenjager · #**109** Posted **May 1, 2015, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by daud

You know, there's more to a condo than being really really really really ridiculously spacious looking.

Besides, the outside is made of blue steel.

Awesome!

batt234 · #**110** Posted **Jun 11, 2015, 3:05 PM**

Anyone have recent pictures of how the construction is coming along?

concrete06 · #**111** Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 1:59 AM**

Taken Oct 10th

Davis137 · #**112** Posted **Oct 15, 2015, 12:12 AM**

Hey, it's more than just a hole in the ground...nice to see this thing going vertical now.

Arcologist · #**113** Posted **Oct 16, 2015, 3:55 PM**

I drove by just yesterday, and was surprised to see how close it is to the neighbouring brown brick and green-glassed building.

concrete06 · #**114** Posted **Nov 3, 2015, 3:23 AM**

Taken Nov 2nd

Boxster · #**115** Posted **Nov 3, 2015, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by concrete06

Taken Nov 2nd

Nice pic. Coming along nicely.

Never noticed all the cables on Richmond.

concrete06 · #**116** Posted **Nov 6, 2015, 12:00 AM**

A different angle. Taken Nov 5th.

concrete06 · #**117** Posted **Feb 21, 2016, 8:20 PM**

Arcologist · #**118** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 1:07 PM**

Here are two recent photos (taken this past weekend).

(Sorry for the poor quality photo, it was a "drive-by shooting!") Still, it gives you an idea of progress on this one...

Kitchissippi · #**119** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 3:26 PM**

A cool angle for a photo of this building would be from the roof of Laundry Land at Byron and Churchill, with the 8/9 storey condos in the foreground. Looks more like a densely-packed mini skyline with hints of the main street.

cr872190 · #**120** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 3:34 PM**

It sucks that this building is hidden when looking down Richmond from Westboro by that ugly ~17 storey apartment building at the end of Golden Avenue.