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Old Posted May 18, 2011, 6:24 PM
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Hey this odd thought just came into my head. Now that we will likely see the demolition of existing buildings downtown for new landmark skyscraper construction, I was thinking that those prime examples downtown for redevelopment must include the Delta Chelsea Hotel Across the street from the Aura Tower, and that 2 storey building across from the world's biggest bookstore. These two buildings are not making the most effective use of the valuable land their sitting on.

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There are drilling crews across the street from the Aura on the lands of the Delta Hotel, just as I predicted, this is likely to be one of the next pieces of land to get a ridiculously tall proposal..

from rdaner at UT

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There was a crew drilling for soil samples on the parking lot at the corner of Bay and Gerrard this morning. Considering it's rapidly rising neighbours, I expect a very tall proposal here.
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthr...ay-and-Gerrard
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Old Posted May 18, 2011, 7:05 PM
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Delta owns the parking lot and the hotel next to it.



So I would expect a major hotel renovation, and a brand new tower. (condo-hotel)

Or:

The hotel gets demolished and a brand new mega tall tower is built.


Here is a rendering of a reclad, which doesn't look like it's moving forward, now. Especially if they choose to just demolish to old site, and build something new here.






http://wgdarchitects.com/projects.php?catid=1&pid=49

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Old Posted May 18, 2011, 7:21 PM
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It's still hard for me to comprehend these old, but not really really old hotels, all getting demolished. This along with the Four Seasons, and Inn on the Park from a few years back. Just madness.
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Here's the big news:

3C Lakeshore Names Lead Architect for New Waterfront Project - Foster + Partners to Lead Design
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TORONTO, May 18, 2011…Following a comprehensive international search, 3C Lakeshore Inc. is pleased to announce that renowned firm Foster + Partners has been selected to serve as lead architect of their new Toronto waterfront project.
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3C Lakeshore Inc. is a joint venture between Cityzen Development Group and Castlepoint Realty Partners of Toronto and Continental Ventures Realty of New York.
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"This is a further signal of our efforts to lead by design,” says Sam Crignano, president of Cityzen Development Group. “Foster + Partners are among the very elite of architects in the world today."
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Castlepoint Realty’s Alfredo Romano sees bringing* Foster + Partners here as a "huge win for the City of Toronto and the Waterfront. It’s a game changer."
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A joint venture of award winning architects Peter Clewes of Architects Alliance, Bruce Kuwabara of KPMB of Toronto, and Landscape Architect Claude Cormier of Montreal complete the Design Team.
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Led by Foster + Partners, the design team and 3C are meeting this week in London to start the process of designing a vibrant neighborhood on Toronto’s waterfront. Subsequent design sessions are scheduled for both Toronto and New York and newly minted plans will be unveiled later this year.
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"The Waterfront represents a special opportunity for Toronto’s growth. We are elated to have Foster + Partners lead in designing this exciting new neighborhood and our first venture in Canada," states Jane Gol of New York's Continental Ventures Realty.
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At over 13 acres, the 3C site is the largest contiguous tract of land on Toronto’s East Bayfront. Zoned for 2.5 million square feet of residential, retail, hotel, entertainment and cultural uses; it is also the single largest development project in downtown Toronto. **
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About The Design Team:
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Led by Pritzker Prize winner Sir Norman Foster, Foster + Partners (http://www.fosterandpartners.com) was founded in 1967 in London, England and is responsible for iconic buildings such as the Swiss Re Tower in London, the Bow in Calgary, the Beijing Airport Terminal 3 and the Hearst Building expansion in New York.
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Bruce Kuwabara and Peter Clewes have together set a new standard for design in Toronto. KPMB’s buildings (http://www.kpmb.com) include the Royal Conservatory of Music, The Gardiner Museum, Festival Tower, Ice Condominiums at the Air Canada Centre; Architects Alliance (http://www.architectsalliance.com) buildings include Pier 27, Spirit in the Distillery District and the National Ballet School complex.
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Claude Cormier’s (http://www.claudecormier.com) innovative landscape creations include Sugar Beach on Toronto’s waterfront and the forthcoming L Tower Public Plaza at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
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About 3C Lakeshore Inc.
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3C Lakeshore Inc. is a strategic joint venture of New York based Continental Ventures Realty (www.continentalventuresrealty.com), Cityzen Development Group (www.cityzen.ca) and Castlepoint Realty Partners (www.crpl.ca) of Toronto. Cityzen and Castlepoint have recently joint-ventured Daniel Libeskind's striking L Tower and Page & Steele's Backstage, both projects now under construction. Continental Ventures signature projects in New York include Element Condominiums on the Upper West Side, MercerGreene in Soho, and a new prestigious residential site on the Upper West Side.
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3C is currently seeking out new opportunities in both New York and Toronto.

Toronto east redevelopment project, which will be lead by Foster partners, the company that designed The Bow in Calgary. We might get 100 little Bows...

This is the largest ever redevelopment project in downtown Toronto. (it will likely spawn many residential towers, probably not exceeding 140 to 160 meters in height, if there are even Towers as a component of this development)
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This is very promising news, the East Bayfront has so much potential. I'm glad Cityzen Group is once again taking the initiative in hiring a world class architectural firm in ensuring a quality designed product. Foster's design for Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District along the waterfront is pretty inspiring, incorpoarting well dsigned buildings and great public/cultural facilities. I'm pretty confident the design for this proposal will be quality as well.
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Old Posted May 18, 2011, 9:15 PM
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This is hardcore!!


http://chinaurbandevelopmentblog.wor...n-competition/


Fosters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do your thing baby!
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An article detailing thy Toronto always ends up with boxes with stuck on (historic) facades at the base
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle2011027/

A guilty conscience stifles good urban design

JOHN BENTLEY MAYS | Columnist profile | E-mail
Toronto— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, May. 05, 2011 10:46AM EDT
Last updated Thursday, May. 05, 2011 12:15PM EDT



The appearance of the average tall Toronto building these days is the result of several forces, the least powerful of which is architectural imagination.

Too often, an architect is called in by the developer merely to put some decorative touches on a structure whose shape and size have already been determined by the economic bottom line and civic bylaws, and sometimes by the demands of the heritage people at city hall. With the contemporary building art so frequently marginalized, it’s no wonder that boomtown Toronto has few new towers that are architecturally memorable. (I try to keep you posted in this column on the ones that are worth thinking about.)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle2011027/
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Delta owns the parking lot and the hotel next to it.



So I would expect a major hotel renovation, and a brand new tower. (condo-hotel)

Or:

The hotel gets demolished and a brand new mega tall tower is built.


Here is a rendering of a reclad, which doesn't look like it's moving forward, now. Especially if they choose to just demolish to old site, and build something new here.






http://wgdarchitects.com/projects.php?catid=1&pid=49
Is this the Delta that had the love triangle murder ?

Anyways talking about foster+historic facades, they designed Jameson house in Vancouver that has part of its facade several historic buildings.
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It was only yesterday that this tower grew from nothing like the rest of the block is going to do shortly.














From drum118, see how the new festival tower meets King Street West.

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The Bell Lightbox is always a happening place whenever I pass by. It has greatly enhanced the streetscape of (that stretch of) King West.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/article/...for-a-facelift

Alexandra Park community yearns for a facelift

Published On Mon May 23 2011
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So as she takes a reporter on an impromptu tour of the decaying housing in the Dundas Ave. W and Bathurst area neighbourhood one afternoon, she speaks passionately about an ambitious, 15-year revitalization plan developed with significant local input. It calls for demolishing and replacing 333 co-op townhouse and apartment units, and gradually shifting from mostly subsidized housing to a mixed-income neighbourhood.
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Currently in the rezoning stage, the plan also calls for renovating 473 existing units, improved green space, new underground parking, and commercial and retail space.

Final planning approvals are expected by early next year, when requests for bids will go out.
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Like Regent Park and Don Mount/Rivertowne, Toronto Community Housing’s other big-budget revitalization initiatives, the Alexandra Park project would leverage land value to generate funds for replacing and upgrading housing.

As to market-rate housing, some 1,530 new condo units and nearly a dozen townhouses are slated to be built around the site.
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But at Alexandra Park, the first clusters of new housing would be built where there are now just parking lots and open space. People would move directly from their old units to the new — and the process would leapfrog from there, explains local councillor Adam Vaughan.

“It means the project will happen a bit slower,’’ says Vaughan — about 15 years to complete. But zero displacement was a principle residents insisted on. “That’s the most critical thing in this whole project.”
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The seven-hectare site is tucked between Kensington Market and Queen Street W., and in terms of TCHC’s housing portfolio is among the highest in land value.
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The site is home to a diverse population with black, Chinese and South Asian residents predominant. Its 800 or so units are home to about 2,500 people.
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But like many public housing projects of its era, Alexandra Park is challenged by its isolation from the surrounding community, vacant and underutilized spaces, disorganized site layout, aging stock, outdated design, and high operating, maintenance and security costs, according to Jeffrey Ferrier, a spokesperson for Toronto Community Housing.
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In Lawrence Heights, an aging TCHC housing project slated for a 20-year redevelopment, residents in adjoining neighbourhoods have voiced strong concerns about the size and scope of the plan. But so far, neighbours seem to have bought into the Alexandra Park project.

Businessman Grey Coyote, chair of the Kensington Market Action Committee, says he’ll be watching to be sure rental rates for new commercial space that pops up there are accessible to smaller operations and not just big chains. But overall, he feels the revitalization will be a “positive thing for the area, when all is said and done.’’
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Old Posted May 24, 2011, 2:06 PM
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Toronto is so funny:

All the poor neighbourhoods, are the ones that are becoming trendy, cool and hip - Regent Park, Parkdale, and St. Jamestown.

Gentrification is fun!
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Those bollards are sure taking a beating and wondering what the cars look like after hiting them








Some amazing shots of X from drum at UT

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The condo where the economy used to live

http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/...le2032392.html

CHRIS ATCHISON - The Globe and Mail

It’s the new norm for the waterfronts of Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and other cities: Lands once used for shipping and industry are morphing into cities of the future, with winding promenades lined by tree-filled parks, lux condos, and buildings occupied by trendy retailers and fashionable offices.

Many argue this is a promising new use of tired, underutilized and highly valued land. Makes sense, right? With the exit of the manufacturing economy lining the water, why not house the chic information workers of tomorrow there?

Not so fast, say commercial property insiders and urban planners.

With gas prices spiking and businesses seeing bottom lines hit dramatically by transportation costs, a theory abounds – and it is only a theory at this point – that the future will see an increasing need for downtown industrial lands, particularly on waterfronts, as manufacturers and light industrial players seek shorter routes to market for their products.

“It’s a prediction based on what I think is very sound reasoning, and I agree with it,” says Brent Toderian, director of city planning for the city of Vancouver. “I think we’re going to see a change in globalization because of energy costs. Cities that have preserved their flexible job-space land and lands for industrial uses are going to be the more resilient, successful cities in the future.”

In Mr. Toderian’s view, many cities have surrendered their waterfront industrial lands for mixed use projects (and he’s quick to point out that, to a certain extent, Vancouver is the poster child for this phenomenon) without asking a critical question: Is the industrial land really not viable?

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Bloor Street Revitalization project captured by androiduk at UT



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Condos, condos everywhere! Sales reach record in April

TORONTO, Ont. - It appears that new condominium developments are springing up faster than the flowers these days, and those living in the GTA are snapping them up just as fast.

Sales of new condo units set a record in April after rising by 89 per cent compared to the same time last year, making it the best April on record.

"It's in the top three of any month of any year, and it's about double the average since 2000," said Stephen Dupuis with the Building Industry and Land Development Association.

"There's a new condo being sold every 13 minutes in this city, and frankly if you look at the time that the sales offices are actually open, it's probably one being sold every five minutes in terms of when you actually go in and put your money down."

However, the surge in purchases is not just in Toronto proper, as the suburbs are also experiencing a boom.

"Particularly in Halton and Oakville has got some new condominium development, and York Region, Richmond Hill, Markham are strong for new highrise condo developments. Quite a new trend," Dupuis told 680News.

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I do have to say I'm impressed with Toronto, major change the last few years, and the spring pics this year are great.

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I won't be able to get there before noon.

From today...the Square is now open....a lot of people passing through checking it out




















Mississauga city centre redevelopment by Jasonzed at UT (Urbantoronto.ca)
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Looks decent. What Mississauag City Centre needs now, are more active pedestrians. That situation should improve when the Amacon "Parkside Village" is complete.
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Restoring the 20+ years abandon Lister Block will obviously have a positive impact for Downtown Hamilton....

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The Lister Block (Canada's first indoor mall) is slowly being revealed....











Photos from Tourism Hamilton
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...closeTheater=1

Soon the building will be open for the general public to tour.
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