Future Canadian Skylines

[Hawrylyshyn]

Originally Posted by 905er

wow... great contribution to the thread you troll

What? Not a troll at all. But someone sure sounds insecure...

Anyways not gonna get in a fight here

But ya the place feels dead - really not a city but merely a suburb of Toronto for the more wealthy to live. It's the McMansion equivalent of a city.. "downtown" is hardly a downtown. As mentioned, huge podiums, all catered to driving, no street level interaction.

[koops65]

A flyover of downtown and a zoom-in to Y&S Condos:

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[Gresto]

^I hope it ends up that dark.

[koops65]

New proposal at 199 Church, approx. 40 floors:

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[Gresto]

steveveve's model:

[koops65]

Where is the LIKE button??? That looks awesome!

[suburbanite]

Seeing how good the old YSL looks there is a bit depressing.

[Alegan]

Originally Posted by suburbanite

Seeing how good the old YSL looks there is a bit depressing.

Agreed. Is the new YSL the absolute 100% sure going-to-be-built version? If so, how on earth does this get approved? Who are the deal-makers? The south-east facing balconies are the worst part of it, similar to the Aura balconies. I fear it's going to be such a massive eye-sore, and for what?

[TorontoDrew]

Ya it's not nearly as good as the original. I try my best to forget about it which makes the current design seem a lot better.

source: https://s3-ca-central-1.amazonaws.com




Speaking of Yonge Street proposals and future skylines. Any news on this building? The design seems out of place, it would look better near the waterfront.

4800 Yonge Street
source: http://d2kcmk0r62r1qk.cloudfront.net

[GeneralLeeTPHLS]

It still says Coming soon on Menke's website, give it a few years I'd say...maybe by next year or this year we'll hear something.

EDIT: LPAT hearing on th 23rd of April for the project, city wants office space, but Menkes is adamant for a mixed use project.

Also, advertising is starting for the somewhat fugly 481 University residential development.

[TorontoDrew]

That one doesn't bother me nearly as much as the 250 University Ave proposal.

Source: http://urbantoronto.ca

At least 481 has improved slightly with the gold trim and less cookie cutter look.


Source: http://urbantoronto.ca

[koops65]

A flyover of downtown:

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[koops65]

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[ssiguy]

The current 481 proposal is FAR nicer than the previous one. The brownish highlights make it blend in far more easily with the existing builfing.

[WhipperSnapper]

Splitting hairs really. They both suck.

Reason: It's not the tower. It's the additional podium levels slapped onto the modernist institutional block and the deco office warehouse.

[yaletown_fella]

I personally like tall podiums but not if it's a sheet of glass or balcony banks. The additional floors on the podium could use some refinement and more stepbacks to look less like an aboveground parkade.

Tall high-quality streetwall of 15-20 stories is what makes cities New York special, not so much the supertall towers. We are just suffering from low quality "blockbuster" podiums. 90% of developers go with the cheapest option.

[GeneralLeeTPHLS]

I jusr prefer a renovation of the offices with no residential addition. It's ridiculous to have towers sprouting from older office stock, and demolishing the old building like in the case of 1075 Bay just seems rather pointless.

But, such is the case with how housing is in the city and with limited opportunities with development.

[yaletown_fella]

There is one really nice 3 story addition on a brick warehouse building on John street north of Queen. It looks indistinguishable from the original first 5 floors.

[mistercorporate]

Steveve's fantastic city render, elegant Toronto-specials (facadectomies with modern, tall towers), and people poopoohing what most of us would have drooled over just a few years ago...Toronto is a skyscraper fanboys Disneyland

[koops65]

A zoom-in to Chelsea Green:

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