Taken 5 January. Many more people have moved in.

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neuhaus said:
I’m curious to see how the brick screen walls look on the inside. The bricklaying must be done very carefully so the mortar on the inside face is neat and consistent (not sure if the brick was installed first or the glass), and no construction debris gets stuck between the glass and the brick wall. I originally thought the brick screen walls were for the balconies which makes more sense as it will provide shade and privacy while allowing air circulation.
This is going to be a maintenance nightmare to clean the glass behind the brick. Maybe power washing is a solution?

There is a weird townhouse unit that has been on sale on assignment for ages. It was a triangular shaped corner unit with windows on one side. The unit was large but being triangular it had a ton of wasted and awkward spaces, effectively losing lots of usable space.
All of the townhouse units don’t have any landing in front of their entrances, just steps immediately in front of the door which is a shame.😟


Yes, the faux I-beam detailing around the windows turned out very nice.
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Does the Building Code trigger the need for a landing at the top of those stairs or is that requirement only triggered once there's a certain (higher than here) number of stairs?
 
Found this...

From https://www.brownandstorey.com/project/dupont-triangle/

The Dupont Triangle​

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The Dupont Triangle is a proposed developed precinct centered on a new vehicular and pedestrian roundabout. The roundabout is the coming-together of six different streets: Dupont Street, that passes down the rail corridor, Dundas Street West up from Bloor Street, Annette Street, Indian Road, and the Old Weston Road.

Currently, this site runs parallel to the Pearson Airport Rail Corridor (UP Express) and is a clash of diagonal streets and urban blocks. This current organization has not been the result of a conscious designed solution, but rather a series of circumstantial street and infrastructure encounters. In the case of Dupont Street, it has to pass under the railway above. The underpass and the sudden emerging slope of Dupont inevitably obscures the street in a rather undignified manner. When it does emerge, it has to encounter a plethora of diverging streets without any corresponding order or unifying solution.

The proposal at this location for a new, unified public realm for vehicular, cycling, and pedestrian space organizes the six different streets leading into its center. The roundabout is surrounded by six urban blocks of varying sizes that have been designed to form the Dupont Triangle and new public space that encloses around the roundabout. These new urban blocks contain inner courtyard and frontages that form the public face of the Davenport Triangle. New connections between the courtyards at grade form an interconnected system. Additionally, upper linkages across Dupont West connect between the precincts with new, intensified housing typologies.

The former isolated Dundas West “park island,” currently surrounded by traffic, has become a sliver-like structure that partially frames a new, raised pedestrian crossing over the new emerging Dupont Street. This walkway connects northward to a rai
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The demolished West Toronto Station was used by the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was located at Dupont & Old Weston Road.

It served as a major stop for CP's Ontario & Quebec, Credit Valley, and Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railways. The station, particularly the last one built in 1911, was a grand Tudor-style structure with a long canopy. While it was a source of community pride, it was controversially demolished by CP in 1982

See https://www.trha.ca/trha/history/stations/west-toronto-station-canadian-pacific-railway/
Or http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Toronto/stns/west_toronto.htm

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A new GO train station could be built at or east of it to serve a GO Midtown train corridor.
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