[interchange42]

Banning RAW from designing any more public spaces would be free

Well, RAW designed the skate pavilion, but MBTW Group/W Architect designed the park AFAIK.

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[ProjectEnd]

Tear down (or hide) that ill-conceived residential slab for a start.

AoD

Don't worry.

The above sounds quite promising...........good team.

However, GWL just finished a hideous Food Court renovation that could only be called tasteless and showed no respect for heritage in the space, uncovering heritage floors only to recover them with new crap.

They've left what should be a grand E-W corridor at the south end of complex greatly diminished for a generation.

And they've hidden the heritage wooden escalator (which I wouldn't expect them to operate, but which should be seen)

@ProjectEnd may have some insight here on how serious GWL are...... to do this properly, they'll have to leave their cheapskates out of it.

They're serious enough. But it's all still pretty early days.

Maybe they can finally build the art deco tower they planned 100 years ago

No deco but it's multi-towered and tall. Really tall...

 

[Northern Light]

Don't worry.

They're serious enough. But it's all still pretty early days.

No deco but it's multi-towered and tall. Really tall...

Tiered? I assume.

 

[Northern Light]

Well, RAW designed the skate pavilion, but MBTW Group/W Architect designed the park AFAIK.

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Correct.

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Though banning RAW from designing.....anything doesn't really sound like such a bad idea.... LOL

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

No deco but it's multi-towered and tall. Really tall...

 

[rdaner]

College Park ‘100!’

 

[ProjectEnd]

Tiered? I assume.

They are not all the same height.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

‘100!’

wouldn't that be something

 

[Northern Light]

They are not all the same height.

Clarification here, are you meaning there is more than one tower being proposed, or that one tower will have set backs at various points (what I mean when using the expression tiered)

 

[ProjectEnd]

Multi-towered.

 

[Northern Light]

Multi-towered.

That surely means some of the extant coming down. Does this impact 777 Bay St. next door?

 

[Northern Light]

If one removes everything not historical on the west side of the 444/777 complex, I math out 3 towers using relatively conventional footprint sizes, while maintaining 20M or greater separation.

 

[jje1000]

(What I would imagine many people on this forum would want)

Of course that's not happening, but I think completing the Yonge Street frontage is well worth exploring (and maybe College- pretty please?).

We can then look at maybe some modern neo-deco towers on top- I could imagine 2 towers along Yonge street and 2 on College on top of these new podiums, while the original building is retained as-is.

 

[Rascacielo]

(What I would imagine many people on this forum would want)
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Of course that's not happening, but I think completing the Yonge Street frontage is well worth exploring (and maybe College- pretty please?).

We can then look at maybe some modern neo-deco towers on top- I could imagine 2 towers along Yonge street and 2 on College on top of these new podiums, while the original building is retained as-is.
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Yes, a neo-deco tower (or 2 or 3) is appropriate for this site, given its history and the old proposal (which I think looks too chunky). However, please no ROCP redux - that's faux-deco, not neo-deco. Perhaps Toronto architects/ developers can learn a thing or two from Chicago - that city knows how to do neo-deco, like the example above, or this pair being built at the site of the aborted Chicago Spire

 

[Red_Bulmer]

I'm imagining it is so tall it could have a public observation deck for tourists.