Canada's Tallest U/C #11 - #30 - Page 395

caltrane74 · #**7881** Posted **May 27, 2017, 10:32 PM**

This might actually be the most amazing tower going up in Toronto right now. And it comes with a city park, how cool is that?

Wellesley Park - 194 meters

dleung · #**7882** Posted **May 28, 2017, 4:20 PM**

Because it has wavy wrap-around balconies? Gee, can't think of too many towers like that

caltrane74 · #**7883** Posted **May 29, 2017, 3:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Because it has wavy wrap-around balconies? Gee, can't think of too many towers like that

I said in the post, "It has a park"

dleung · #**7884** Posted **May 29, 2017, 4:39 AM**

You said "And it has a park". In addition to what?

caltrane74 · #**7885** Posted **May 29, 2017, 9:09 AM**

88 Scott - 204 meters

caltrane74 · #**7886** Posted **May 29, 2017, 1:24 PM**

No dilly dally at Teahouse

175 meters

Beedok · #**7887** Posted **May 29, 2017, 1:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

I said in the post, "It has a park"

I thought everyone hated towers in the park designs. Or even towers with a tiny front long with a little bit of green space.

kwoldtimer · #**7888** Posted **May 29, 2017, 2:00 PM**

The word "obtuse" comes to mind....

TorontoDrew · #**7889** Posted **May 29, 2017, 5:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Because it has wavy wrap-around balconies? Gee, can't think of too many towers like that

They're not wavy balconies, it's also not one of the best towers going up right now in Toronto. What happened to you dleung, months and months of construcctive non arrogant city bashing posts and then it all came to an end late last week?

source: http://www.torontocondoboutique.com

WhipperSnapper · #**7890** Posted **May 29, 2017, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

I thought everyone hated towers in the park designs. Or even towers with a tiny front long with a little bit of green space.

It's not a tower in a park. It's a tall tower with the remaining 1.6 acres transferred to the city for a public park.

WhipperSnapper · #**7891** Posted **May 29, 2017, 6:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

They're not wavy balconies, it's also not one of the best towers going up right now in Toronto. What happened to you dleung, months and months of construcctive non arrogant city bashing posts and then it all came to an end late last week?

source: http://www.torontocondoboutique.com

C'mon. He's a lot more fun this way.

FrankieFlowerpot · #**7892** Posted **May 29, 2017, 6:51 PM**

they look wavy to me

koops65 · #**7893** Posted **May 29, 2017, 10:14 PM**

#12. E Condos South - 194 metres, 58 floors:

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Pix by me today.

dleung · #**7894** Posted **May 30, 2017, 1:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrankieFlowerpot

they look wavy to me

Nah, fine I agree with Caltrane: that pile is the most amazing thing going up in Toronto.

But coming from me, it's still a "bash"... can't win

caltrane74 · #**7895** Posted **May 30, 2017, 4:48 AM**

Amazing because it also comes with the city park.

Albeit a small one.

isaidso · #**7896** Posted **May 30, 2017, 5:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

I thought everyone hated towers in the park designs. Or even towers with a tiny front long with a little bit of green space.

Attempts were made but in the end the City got outbid by the developer. We ended up with this compromise 'solution'. For a city worried that it's running out of potential sites for green space stuff like this should not happen.

I do like this building but it will always be a reminder of an opportunity lost. I thought we were done with towers in a park too.

caltrane74 · #**7897** Posted **May 30, 2017, 11:11 AM**

Benito did a serious Casa Update at Urbantoronto

WhipperSnapper · #**7898** Posted **May 30, 2017, 2:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Attempts were made but in the end the City got outbid by the developer. We ended up with this compromise 'solution'. For a city worried that it's running out of potential sites for green space stuff like this should not happen.

I do like this building but it will always be a reminder of an opportunity lost. I thought we were done with towers in a park too.

This isn't a tower in a park!!! Attempts were made by community groups to get the city to purchase the land but, they balked at the high price. This is hardly a compromise especially around SSP . They get a free park by allowing the developer to build a 200 metre tower instead of the approved 15 storey perimeter block slab.

TorontoDrew · #**7899** Posted **May 30, 2017, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Nah, fine I agree with Caltrane: that pile is the most amazing thing going up in Toronto.

But coming from me, it's still a "bash"... can't win

Your angry sentence speaks volumes, don't change. The world needs assholes too.

TorontoDrew · #**7900** Posted **May 30, 2017, 8:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

This isn't a tower in a park!!! Attempts were made by community groups to get the city to purchase the land but, they balked at the high price. This is hardly a compromise especially around SSP . They get a free park by allowing the developer to build a 200 metre tower instead of the approved 15 storey perimeter block slab.

I was going to say that. This is a brand new park that will connect two streets with green space. A tower in a park is just that, set back from the grid with a poor use of space in an urban environment.

And that tiered blue print doesn't look wavy to me. Even if it was wavy I love how that's a style delung has decided to claim as being over used or boring now. If it was a different building Caltrane posted in Toronto, any building he would have made a negative insulting comment about it. It just happened to be this one that day while he was eating his pissed on cornflakes.

Bring on wavy buildings. We have almost none at the moment in any Canadian city.

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