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You are at the corner of Church and Front Street East, Toronto. What do you want--a Max Dudler Architect-inspired infusion or more P+S pastiche?
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The idea: lower 4.5 storeys would be red brick with metal or other material (corten? Different colour/material at any rate) "frames" above. Lighten the building's look as it rises from a "heavy" base with arches at retail level that match the building bookending it. The transition between "podium" and "tower" is done via a "faux dormer" look--compare to buildings across the street.

See how the NimbyTect thinks?
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You get a naughty view of both the Flatiron & the Berczy--horrors!
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The choice is yours:
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Urbandreamer, I must say generally your concepts are unique, but I don't always love them. This one though, is absolutely awesome! I'd love to see this go up for sure!
 
retro hipster, you are going right here:
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Inspired by the nimbies across Bathurst--ie vintage warehouses--retro hipster seeks 10s of pizza pizza eating loft-loving hipsters--renters perhaps?
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If College and Spadina is able to get 15-28s towers, the same conditions should apply here, right? Intersection of 2 streetcar lines, surrounded by 6-13s buildings (BJL's Harlowe project is really just a stone's throw away), and a prime corner screaming for more density, retro hipster is the only solution.:)
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Inspired by the past yet utterly modern.

retro hipster--die!
 
It's 2030 and a couple of things have happened:

1)Another real estate bull cycle is under way.
2)I am the mayor of Nimbyville.
3)I have just banned all development except in the area (roughly) between Bloor, Bathurst, Lake Ontario, and Parliament.
4)Construction has begun on a new downtown subway line--From Spadina Stn down Spadina Avenue with stations at Harbord, College, Dundas, Queen, King, Bremner, Queens Quay, Yonge, Queens Quay East, up Parliament Street to Bloor Street East with stations at the Distillery District, King East, Queen East, halfway between Dundas East & Carlton, Wellesley East and a new station at Parliament and Bloor.
5)Construction has begun on 2 new "local" streetcar lines that loop via Dupont/St George/McCaul/Simcoe/Front/Bay/Davenport and Church/Queens Quay East/Sherbourne/Bloor.
6)The vision: 300,000 new residents within this "downtown" area.

Let's start at Queen and Spadina shall we?
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Building #1 & #2: Southwest corner Queen and Spadina, looking West:
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Building #3 & 4 are in the conceptual design stage now.

Building 5 - 20 -- to come?

NimbyTect goes urban planning :)
 
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Hey Nimbies hope y'all enjoy your future Nabe'hood!

Phase 3 begins to fill in the empty space behind those retail units between Soho Square & Spadina on the north side of Queen West. Check out google maps and you'll see there's plenty of space for infill. Building 3 is in that recently-closed Le Chateau single storey space that is hideous and therefore must die a hated NimbyTect death. Maybe something like Le ***soho?
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Pitched roofs come in handy in the rain ... and simply look awesome don't ya think?
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Building 4 is on the Northwest corner of Queen and Spadina and is well under NimbyTect construction--looking South down Spadina:
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There's only 26 buildings still to come (I miscalculated in my last post.) :) Gotta fit the 300,000 newbies in somewhere, right?
 
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Bad news: The Nimbies have sent back building #4 for a redesign. What they apparently don't want:
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After that setback, what to do?

Building #5 that's what. And it's going right here:
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It's replacing this rubbish building:
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And it's gonna look a bit like:
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Queen Street West facade:
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Vanauley Street facade:
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Looking NW with a future phase peeking into view:
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Trying to spook the nimby'hood:
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Would you like to see building #6?
 
Building #6 is going in the block just east of building #5 (above.) It's currently a boring lowrise strip next to several c.1880s buildings that includes the Cameron House--those old beauties are staying as is under my master planning vision.

An early look at it--retrotorian:
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Retrotorian--Victorian scale meets origami-inspired lines. Still a WIP as there may be additional storeys added.
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Old details inspire the new details without slavishly copying them.

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It's like going from the "Jellybean" aesthetic of the 1986 Ford Taurus to the "new edge" design language of the mid-90s Ford Focus.
 
It just dawned on me that if I'm going to update the classic Victorian storefront + apartments upstairs look, I'm going to need some trendy c.2030s retailers to sustain it, right?

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No one said you had to be a Lefty to own a biz on Queen West!
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Anything missing?
 
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