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Old Posted Dec 23, 2011, 8:21 PM
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those nice? well they look circular, so perhaps these will change Toronto's box fetish into a curve fetish!
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 23, 2011, 8:59 PM
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Well one of the towers is curved, that is for sure. City doesn't seem to have too many objections outside of spacing of the towers. If push comes to shove we will get taller and slimmer towers to comply with the city's design request.

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Old Posted Dec 23, 2011, 9:17 PM
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but this will be Toronto's headlining building. a twin tower that is surrounded in balconies, and judging by the unit count, filled with 500sqft units that are aimed at investors. this would be fine sitting in in the suburbs, but considering this will frame the toronto skyline until it gets torn down, this is utter rubbish.
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 23, 2011, 9:22 PM
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This is getting chronic. The city needs to introduce a bill that would restrict the amount of balconies a develop can integrate per sf.
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Old Posted Dec 23, 2011, 9:24 PM
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here's a clearer copy of the line drawings


http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2...file-43359.pdf

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Old Posted Dec 24, 2011, 5:14 AM
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I don't see a problem with having balconies. To me it doesn't diminish the project.
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 24, 2011, 7:51 PM
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Well, if these get built as shown in the render they will make 10 York look even more classy.
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Old Posted Dec 28, 2011, 6:59 PM
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I would wait till the developer renders before making judgement.
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 28, 2011, 9:34 PM
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True, the office building could turn out to be quite a stunner like 18 York.
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What's wrong, they are nice towers.....

Com'on!
Yeah, right. I like a nice super taller towers. I can't wait to start built new super taller towers.
     
     
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Old Posted Jan 3, 2012, 10:53 PM
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It's hard to tell but the thinner tower looks to be circular.
     
     
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Yes, the shading seems to indicate that.
     
     
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Old Posted Jan 4, 2012, 2:21 PM
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The shortest building of the 3 looks promising. The 2 tall ones.... I'm not quite sure.
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meh... filler.

looks like one of them will be TO's second 70 story white shoebox.
     
     
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Las Vegas builds stuff by Cesar Pelli and Toronto gets the above. Which one's the resort and which one's the big city? Toronto needs a kick in the ass. This just ain't good enough.
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It's just more downtown filler. The office tower would look better if it had another 20 stories, and the residential towers will just be lost amongst the many other condo towers in that area.
     
     
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Old Posted Jan 4, 2012, 11:10 PM
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There is a bit of absolute world Toronto going on here and in particular with that balcony glass.
     
     
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Absolutely mediocre.

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Meh, the cylindrical tower looks like a 70-story barber pole. The office tower looks promising, though. Those cutouts look a bit haphazard, but it's an acceptable variation on the standard box.


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