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Frank Gehry’s first Toronto tower: ‘It could be a real game-changer’
Alex Bozikovic
MAY 25, 2022
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Nearly a decade ago, Frank Gehry announced he would be designing a major development project in downtown Toronto. Now, that project, named Forma, is about to begin sales – and featuring the tallest building by the world’s most famous architect.
Gehry in an interview last week described the design in matter-of-fact terms.
“It’s very economical,” the Toronto-born architect said. “And it fits with how I see the Toronto aesthetic: quiet.” Not many people would choose those same adjectives. Forma’s first tower will be 73 storeys tall and wrapped in a skin of undulating, shimmering stainless steel; it is likely to become one of the most visible and memorable buildings in the city. Its twin is planned to be 84 storeys tall.
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…..The towers’ architecture has been simplified considerably over the past five years, in a normal process of cost-cutting. However, Gehry and his colleague David Nam, who is managing the project, expressed satisfaction with the way the design has evolved.
Adamson Associates Architects and the Italian fabrication company Permasteelisa – with whom the Gehry office has worked for decades – are collaborating on the project. The architecture strives to create strong visual effects by refracting and reflecting the sun, Gehry said.
“You take advantage of the play of light,” he said. “That’s free.”
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…..Gehry has spoken for years about how hard it has been for him to secure a major commission in Toronto, which he left in 1947 but which he said he still considers home.
In our interview, he revealed that the AGO also proposed hiring him to lead the redesign of Grange Park – the publicly accessible space behind the museum that is owned and maintained by the AGO. The problem? The project’s lead donors, the W. Garfield Weston Foundation, “had some questions about whether we could manage the budget,” he said with a laugh.
Now Gehry is leading a project with a hundred times the budget, one that will be visible across the city. And the texture of the steel skin will also come all the way down to ground level, culminating in a pair of protruding canopies that will reach out over Duncan Street.
“I think it could be a real game-changer for the street,” he said. “I hope I’ll be around to see it finished.”
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