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Old Posted Jan 13, 2021, 3:03 PM
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Mirvish + Gehry (previous and revised massing models) along side 212 King West.

Prolific render magician Steve Velasco has been busy the last few days.

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An explosion of height west of the financial core. In addition to a slew of 200m+ proposed and u/c projects, 3 proposed developments include a super-tall: M + G and 212 King W,
and Union Park on Front Street W (right of the CN Tower). The tallest building in the country for more than 4 decades, BMO (left side) stuck at 298m, can only watch and bemoan
the lousy “nice try” super-tall plastic plaque it received from the CTBUH. Even super-tall SkyTower, on the waterfront to the east, render-bombs poor BMO.


Looking south east to King Street.

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Mirvish+Gehry Toronto - 308m - 82s - Great Gulf - Gehry Partners - pre-construction

Angled swaths of curtain-wall and stainless steel… looks great imo.


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Mirvish+Gehry Toronto

Two more renders.

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M+G in context by steveve between King West and Front Street. The foreground 'ghosts' are Union Park (incl. a supertall)

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There's talk at UT of work beginning on the sales centre. Finally.

The heights on these two are 1,011 ft (308.00 m) and 874 ft (266.50 m).



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Is the façade made of crumpled tin foil?
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Never going to happen.

This is as much of a pipe dream as Gehry's Atlantic Yards proposal. Toronto's overheated condo market is going to fizzle out any time now.

By the time this project goes through with all the necessary approvals and permits it will be dead in the water.

10 years later... Toronto's "overheated condo market" hasn't fizzled out yet this development looks like its dead in the water. So I guess this person was half right.
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Sales begin this year...
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Sales begin this year...
About time considering this was publicly announced a decade ago. Way too long from concept to the start of construction, which will probably be 15 years or more when all is said and done.
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While this is indeed taking absolutely forever, it has to do with a change of landowners and the pandemic screwing with plans. The plan in late 2019 was for about half of one of the towers to be a major new hotel user, which backed out with the pandemic.

My understanding is that it has been redesigned now as a result of the loss of that hotel tenant, and is launching sales this spring finally. The existing building on the site is being renovated into the sales centre right now.
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These look beautiful!
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It was a new tallest for the country when it was proposed, but it looks like it might night even be the tallest in the neighbourhood once it gets built.
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One Yonge and The One will be taller, and so will 212 King W.
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It was a new tallest for the country when it was proposed, but it looks like it might night even be the tallest in the neighbourhood once it gets built.
LOL - Impressive
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...-game-changer/

Frank Gehry’s first Toronto tower: ‘It could be a real game-changer’

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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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Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners l Approved - site prep soon? (demolition permit application)

Wondering if the first tower sold quickly as a demolition permit application was filed on Thursday for the 2 and 5 storey buildings on site.

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